【正文】 les being replaced by tall tables would otherwise have to be replaced with new standard tables at a greater expense.(A) One of the taller tables takes up less floor space than one of the standard tables.(D) The average number of screens per cinema is lower among existing cinemas than it is among cinemas still in the planning stages.Which of the following, if true about Washington County, most helps to provide a justification for the investors’ prediction?(C) Whether some of the automaker’s models will be more deeply discounted than others15. A certain automaker aims to increase its market share by deeply discounting its vehicles’ prices for the next several months. The discounts will cut into profits, but because they will be heavily advertised the manufacturer hopes that they will attract buyers away from rival manufacturers’ cars. In the longer term, the automaker envisions that customers initially attracted by the discounts may bee loyal customers.(B) Within the jurisdiction covered by the proposed legislation, most heating and cooking is done with oil or natural gas.(E) TrueSave has lost some of its regular customers as a result of the high number of damaged items they received.(A) The change in packing policy led to an increase in expenditure on packing material and labor.(D) the bone in the temple area is relatively thin and impacts in that area are thus very likely to cause brain injury.(D) When people who have purchased a carefully designed luxury automobile need to replace a worn part of it, they almost invariably replace it with a part of exactly the same make and type.Which of the following, if true, most strongly justifies the claim made by Rubco’s executives?(C) Whether the pany from which Traverton currently buys incandescent bulbs for traffic signals also sells LED arrays10. Traverton’s city council wants to minimize the city’s average yearly expenditures on its traffic signal lights and so is considering replacing the incandescent bulbs currently in use with arrays of lightemitting diodes (LEDs) as the incandescent bulbs burn out. Compared to incandescent bulbs, LED arrays consume significantly less energy and cost no more to purchase. Moreover, the costs associated with the conversion of existing fixtures so as to accept LED arrays would be minimal.(B) The wholesale prices of a given crop decrease as the supply of it increases.(E) It makes a distinction that presupposes the truth of the conclusion that is to be established.(A) It offers a conclusion that is no more than a paraphrase of one of the pieces of information provided in its support.(D) Before the introduction of AMT, the pany will institute an educational program to inform its employees of the probable consequences of the introduction of AMT.Which of the following plans, if feasible, would allow a pany to prepare most effectively for the rapid obsolescence of skills described above?(C) The main predator of these fish is another species of fish on which alligators also prey.6. Parland’s alligator population has been declining in recent years, primarily because of hunting. Alligators prey heavily on a species of freshwater fish that is highly valued as food by Parlanders, who had hoped that the decline in the alligator population would lead to an increase in the numbers of these fish available for human consumption. Yet the population of this fish species has also declined, even though the annual number caught for human consumption has not increased.(B) consult at least once a day with employees from other panies(E) Because a planting machine would need to avoid ing into contact with the electrodes, new parts for planting machines would need to be designed.(A) In order for farmers to avoid electric shock while working in the fields, the current could be turned off at such times without diminishing the intended effects.(D) Some of the cattle that are raised on land cleared in the Amazon are killed by wildcats.Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why Suncorp has been pursuing the less profitable of the two economic activities mentioned above?(C) depends on popular belief rather than on documented research findings2. Homeowners aged 40 to 50 are more likely to purchase ice cream and are more likely to purchase it in larger amounts than are members of any other demographic group. The popular belief that teenagers eat more ice cream than adults must, therefore, be false.(B) Many municipalities have old wastewater purification systems that need to be replaced.critical reasoningEach of the(A) Bacteria are not the only impurities that must be removed from wastewater.(E) Places where the winters are cold rarely have a problem of water shortage.(B) does not supply information about homeowners in age groups other than 40 to 503. Suncorp, a new corporation with limited funds, has been clearing large sections of the tropical Amazon forest for cattle ranching. This practice continues even though greater profits can be made from rubber tapping, which does not destroy the forest, than from cattle ranching, which does destroy the forest.(C) In certain districts, profits made from cattle ranching are more heavily taxed than profits made from any other industry.Which of the following, if true, most strongly indicates that the logic of the prediction above is flawed?(D) Since weeds are plants, electricity would affect weeds in the same way as it would affect crop plants.(A) work without interruption from other employees(E) undertake projects that take several days to plete(B) Over the last few years, Parland’s mercial fishing enterprises have increased the number of fishing boats they use.7. The amount of time it takes for most of a worker’s occupational knowledge and skills to bee obsolete has been declining because