Among the following options, which could be the empty hole?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
(E) 6
As they were keen to balance Indiana’s population of 8,000 men and 2,000 women, lawmakers extended voting rights to women in Indiana in 1869.
Which among the following could serve as an assumption taken into consideration by the lawmakers?
(A) The manner in which the women of Indiana would caste their vote would make Indiana a better place to live.
(B) Women make better political decisions than men.
(C) Women would want to live in a place where they could vote.
(D) Women who were willing to endure frontier conditions deserved the right to vote.
(E) Women would be better citizens if they voted.
A new poison, bromethalin, which is lethal to all species of rats has been discovered by researchers. This poison is lethal to even those species which were immune to all earlier known poisons, as well as to those rats that eat only the most minute quantities. Tests reveal that rats will be unable to learn how to avoid bromethalin and that the carcasses of rats killed by bromethalin will in no way harm other animals.
Which among the following statements, if true, would support the claim made by the researchers that carcasses of rats killed by bromethalin will in no way harm other animals?
(A) Rats die immediately after consuming bromethalin.
(B) On account of curiosity, animals usually examine carcasses appearing in their territory.
(C) Certain chemicals present in the digestive tract of dead rats quickly break bromethalin down into a nonpoisonous substance.
(D) After the rat consumes the poison a few traces of bromethalin remain in the rat’s mouth and saliva.
(E) Scavengers and feed habitually on refuse and dead flesh.
The difference between the location of jobs and the location of affordable housing has been growing throughout the country in recent years. The availability of houses has not grown in the same proportion as the growth of jobs in suburban regions. Consequently it results in long commutes from rural and urban areas for middle-income workers and inaccessibility of job opportunities for lower income workers.
Which among the following is the most reliable inference that can be drawn from the premises above?
(A) People from the lower-income strata are unable to afford the expenses of long commutes to their workplace.
(B) Suburban housing is becoming cheaper.
(C) People from the middle-income strata tend to live closer to their workplaces than workers from the lower income strata.
(D) Availability of housing for workers has been an important factor, where decisions to relocate businesses are concerned.
(E) In recent years the availability of affordable housing in urban areas has lessened.