If K and V are assigned to room two, which of the following must be true ?
(A) J and Y are assigned to a room together.
(B) L and W are assigned to a room together.
(C) M and Y are assigned to room five.
(D) M and Z are assigned to a room together.
(E) N and W are assigned to room three.
There is a growing trend today toward settling legal differences between corporations by private arbitration rather than in the courts. The average arbitration takes 141 days from filing to award, whereas the average time from filing to trial in the courts is 20 months. Any two corporations aware of this fact will surely prefer some sort of private arbitration to a court trial.
Which of the following, if true, could best be used to challenge the conclusion above ?
(A) The fees court litigation are usually no higher than the fees for private arbitration.
(B) The average time of 20 months does not include time spent in the courtroom.
(C) A delay in setting legal differences is often beneficial to one of the parties involved.
(D) For some corporations, 141 days is an inconveniently long time to wait for a legal decision.
(E) If both parties choose to do so, they can build the possibility of appeal into private arbitration.
Starchy foods such as breads and cereals have usually half as many calories per ounce as do fatty foods such as butter and cheese. People who want to lose weight by consuming fewer calories without being hungry because they have reduced the amount of food they eat can do so by substituting an equal weight of starchy foods for some of the fatty foods they now eat.
Which of the following, if true, is a drawback to weight-loss strategy proposed above ?
(A) Starchy foods such as bread are usually less expensive than fatty foods such as butter and cheese.
(B) Fatty foods are more compact than starchy foods, and therefore add less bulk to the diet.
(C) A fat-free diet eventually leads to serious nutritional deficiencies.
(D) Starchy foods do not alleviate a desire to eat for as long as fatty foods do, because they are more quickly digested.
(E) Some people prefer the taste of starchy foods to that of fatty foods.
"I propose the following strategy for responding to the rapidly shrinking demand for our line of Rota toys : in each of the next five years, let us cut production of those toys by ten percent of the preceding year’s production level, and our production in year five will be reduced to exactly half of what it is today."
(A) The reasons for the decline in the demand for Rota toys are not analyzed.
(B) The proposal is put forth without an explanation of why the figure of ten percent was set as a goal.
(C) The proposal leaves open what is to be done once the plan for the next five years has been carried out.
(D) The Strategy as described above, if carried out, would not result in as large a reduction in production as is projected.
(E) The proposal is a conservative response in that it treats the problem of decreasing demand as likely to persist.