In an economic downturn, companies tempted to take advantage of Job applicants as unemployment rates rise should reconsider, for such actions could hurt these companies when the economy recovers. Researchers surveyed employees about their experiences as applicants with their current employers. Those who felt they had been treated unfairly during hiring were twice as likely to respond that they were looking for jobs outside their company, even after five years. Among the actions applicants considered unfair were slow responses from employers and pressure to accept offers quickly.
Which of the following would, if true, most strengthen the reasoning above?

• A. During an economic downturn, the jobs available outside one's current company are usually limited.
• B. A rising unemployment rate is a widely accepted indication of an economic downturn.
• C. The unwillingness of a company to negotiate compensation levels is often considered unfair.
• D. Recovery from an economic downturn usually affects company profits before it affects hiring practices.
• E. An economic recovery usually occurs less than five years after the start of an economic downturn.

Which of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

• A. Researchers inspired by observing mirages on hot roads have applied the underlying physical principles to develop a new process to cloak objects from microwaves.
• B. Microwaves and visible light both conform to a set of physical laws that explain mirages on hot roads.
• C. Researchers have invented a process to cloak objects from microwaves through the use of a novel engineered material that bends microwaves at extreme angles.
• D. The movement of EMR around an object can be controlled by metal shapes like loops, coils, or tiny rectangles.
• E. Both the occurrence of mirages on hot roads and the cloaking of microwaves through a newly invented process result from the bending of light at extreme angles.

In spite of an Impressive presence of Greek women In undergraduate and graduate business programs both in Greece and In other countries over the last decade, negative stereotyping of women managers.persists id Greek culture and may explain, at least In part, the well documented fact that women are still under-represented h the Greek bus ness community.

• A. persistent negative stereotypes in Greek culture about women managers,
• B. negative stereotyping of women managers persists in Greek culture
• C. Greek culture negatively stereotyping women managers persists,
• D. women managers are still subject to negative stereotyping in Greek culture,
• E. there are still negative stereotypes about women managers In Greek culture.

Two years ago all automobile dealers in Laurentia began instaling antitheft alarms in all the new cars they sold. Critics of this policy predicted that when thieves could no longer find new cars without alarms, a car alarm in a new car would not deter thieves to the degree it once did. Clearly, however, the critics were wrong:
whereas in the last two years the annual number of car thefts in Laurentia has remained about the same as in previous years, last year the proportion of cars stolen that were recently purchased new cars was substantially smaller than it had been two years ago.
In the argument given, the two portions in boldface play which of the following rotes?

• A. The first is a criticism that has been directed against the position that the argument advocates; the second is evidence on which that criticism has been based. The first is a criticism of a position that the argument opposes; the second is evidence on which t^i criticism is based.
• B. The first is a prediction that, according to the argument, has proved wrong; the second is evidence that has been used to argue that the prediction was accurate.
• C. The first is a prediction that, according to the argument, has proved wrong; the second is evidence on which that assessment of the prediction is based.
• D. The first is a claim that has been advanced in support of a position that the argument opposes; the second is evidence that has been used to support that position.

At a certain hospital, the number of babies born each day of the year 2002 was recorded. If 20 percent of the recorded numbers were greater than 7, was the median of the recorded numbers less than 5 ?
(1) Of the recorded numbers that were 7 or less, 75 percent were less than 5.
(2) Of the recorded numbers that were 5 or greater, 50 percent were 7 or less.

• A. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
• B. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
• C. Statement (2) ALONE Is sufficient, but statement (1) atone is not sufficient.
• D. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
• E. Statement (1) ALONE Is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.