【正文】 dard tables, it can continue to acmodate customers who do not care for the taller tables.(A) One of the taller tables takes up less floor space than one of the standard tables.17. Hollywood restaurant is replacing some of its standard tables with tall tables and stools. The restaurant already fills every available seat during its operating hours, and the change in seating arrangements will not result in an increase in the restaurant’s seating capacity. Nonetheless, the restaurant’s management expects revenue to increase as a result of the seating change without any concurrent change in menu, prices, or operating hours.(D) The average number of screens per cinema is lower among existing cinemas than it is among cinemas still in the planning stages.(B) As distinct from the existing cinemas, most of the cinemas being planned would be located in downtown areas, in hopes of stimulating an economic revitalization of those areas.Which of the following, if true about Washington County, most helps to provide a justification for the investors’ prediction?(E) Whether an alternative strategy might enable the automaker to enhance its profitability while holding a constant or diminishing share of the market(C) Whether some of the automaker’s models will be more deeply discounted than others(A) Whether the automaker’s petitors are likely to respond by offering deep discounts on their own products15. 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.(D) No significant beneficial effect on air quality would result if openair fires were banned within the jurisdiction covered by the proposed legislation.(B) Within the jurisdiction covered by the proposed legislation, most heating and cooking is done with oil or natural gas.Which of the following, if true, provides the most support for the argument above?(E) TrueSave has lost some of its regular customers as a result of the high number of damaged items they received.(C) The amount of packing material used in a carton does not significantly influence the ease with which a customer can unpack the package.(A) The change in packing policy led to an increase in expenditure on packing material and labor.13. In order to reduce the number of items damaged while in transit to customers, packaging consultants remended that the TrueSave mailorder pany increase the amount of packing material so as to fill any empty spaces in its cartons. Accordingly, TrueSave officials instructed the pany’s packers to use more packing material than before, and the packers zealously acted on these instructions and used as much as they could. Nevertheless, customer reports of damaged items rose somewhat.(D) the bone in the temple area is relatively thin and impacts in that area are thus very likely to cause brain injury(B) even those bicyclists who regularly wear helmets have a poor understanding of the degree and kind of protection that helmets afford.12. Which of the following most logically pletes the passage?(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.(B) Rubco holds exclusive contracts to supply Maxilux with the tires for a number of other models made by Maxilux.Which of the following, if true, most strongly justifies the claim made by Rubco’s executives?(E) Whether the crews that currently replace incandescent bulbs in Traverton’s traffic signals know how to convert the existing fixtures so as to accept LED arrays(C) Whether the pany from which Traverton currently buys incandescent bulbs for traffic signals also sells LED arrays(A) Whether the expected service life of LED arrays is at least as long as that of the currently used incandescent bulbs10. 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.(D) Short plants are less vulnerable to strong wind and heavy rains.(B) The wholesale prices of a given crop decrease as the supply of it increases.Which of the following would, if true, most help to explain the strategy of the plant breeders referred to above?(E) It makes a distinction that presupposes the truth of the conclusion that is to be established.(C) It takes one possible cause of a condition to be the actual cause of that condition without considering any other possible causes.(A) It offers a conclusion that is no more than a paraphrase of one of the pieces of information provided in its support.8. In virtually any industry, technological improvements increase labor productivity, which is the output of goods and services per personhour worked. In Parland’s industries, labor productivity is significantly higher than it is in Vergia’s industries. Clearly, therefore, Parland’s industries must, on the whole, be further advanced technologically than Vergia’s are.(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.(B) The pany will increase its investment in AMT