Identify the error, if any. Whom (A) did you talk (B) to at (C) the information desk at the airport? (D) No error. (E) Believe it or not, sometimes the SAT will have sentences that are perfectly fine and in no need of any correction! The above sentence is an example!! The answer is (E).
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What is 35% of a number if 12 is 15% of a number? (A) 5 (B) 12 (C) 28 (D) 33 (E) 62 First we need to express the fact that 12 is 15% of a particular number: .15x=12 Solving for x, we get x=80. Then we simply find 35% of 80. 80 x [...]
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Which choice represents the best improvement upon this sentence? If it’s ok as is, choose (A). If the gardener would sow the seeds in the greenhouse rather than the garden, he might get a better display of flowers. A. If the gardener would sow the seeds in the greenhouse rather than the garden B. If [...]
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Identify the error, if any, in the following sentence. Suzanne recountedA her improbableB tale withC enthusiasm and in a convincing mannerD. No errorE. When two items are connected with the word “and,” there needs to be a parallel structure. You would need to say “with enthusiasm and conviction” (or something synonymous). The answer is [...]
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Grace has 16 jellybeans in her pocket. She has 8 red ones, 4 green ones, and 4 blue ones. What is the minimum number of jellybeans she must take out of her pocket to ensure that she has one of each color? (a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 13 (e) [...]
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This is part of an Improving Paragraphs section: (1) Many times art history courses focus on the great “masters,” ignoring those women who should have achieved fame. (2) Often women artists like Mary Cassatt have worked in the shadows of their male contemporaries. (3) They have rarely received much attention during their lifetimes. In [...]
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Well, it’s been a while since we’ve had a passage-based reading, so let’s do one! There will be two questions below based on this brief passage: I chose to wander by Bethlehem Hospital; partly, because it lay on my road round to Westminster; partly, because I had a fancy in my head [...]
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The price of a cycle is reduced by 25 per cent. The new price is reduced by a further 20 per cent. The two reductions together are equal to a single reduction of A. 45% B. 40% C. 35% D. 32.5% E. 30% The temptation here is to simply add 25 and 20, [...]
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An Identifying Sentence Errors Question: Either of the solutions you haveA proposed areB acceptable to the union, whoseC members are willingD to compromise. No errorE. There is a number of words which, although singular, are treated as if they are plural. The most common of these are each, either, and neither. Many of us, for [...]
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Two cars travel from the same point along parallel lanes of a highway for a distance of 10 miles. When car M, travelling at 60 miles an hour reaches the end of the distance, how much further will car N have to travel if it is travelling at 48 miles an hour? This is [...]
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1. The crew of the air balloon ____ the sand bags to help the balloon rise over the hill. A. capsized B. jettisoned C. salvaged D. augmented E. enumerated 2. The term lead pencil is a ____ ; pencils are filled with graphite not lead. A. misnomer B. misdemeanor C. peccadillo D. euphemism E. metaphor [...]
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Between you and I, I doubt that he will come. A. and I, I doubt that he will come. B. and I, I doubt that he would come. C. and me, I doubt that he will come. D. and me, I doubt that he would come. E. and me, I doubt whether he will be [...]
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This is a “grid-in” math question, so you provide the answer. There are no choices. Four circles of diameter √2 are placed tangent ot each other as shown. What is the distance AC ? This is typical of the kind of math question SAT will throw your way. First, let’s figure out what they’re REALLY [...]
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Identify the error (if any) in the following sentence: Maude Adams, after her spectacular triumph as (A) the original Peter Pan, went about (B) heavy veiled (C) and was accessible to only a handful (D) of intimate friends. No error (E) One thing that students often forget is that adjectives are used to modify nouns and adverbs are used [...]
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