The unwillingness of either political party to surrender any ground on the issue makes compromise unlikely: both sides are too_________.
A. entrenched
B. pessimistic
C. dispirited
D. obdurate
E. wary
F. belligerent
The term "ragtime opera" was used frequently m the first years of the twentieth century, but more often than not its use was (i)_________. The very idea of "ragtime opera" was viewed as lii)_________: opera was regarded as the highest form of musical art; ragtime was at the opposite pole.
A. unambiguous
B. facetious
C. cliche
D. an exaggeration
E. a self-contradiction
F. an abstraction
The book's approach to modern art was hardly_________: it aimed simply to give readers a deeper understanding of prevailing perspectives in the field.
A. revisionist
B. conventional
C. calculated
D. innocuous
E. decipherable
At a factory. 6 machines work independently at the same constant rate to produce certain parts. If 5 of the machines, working simultaneously at this rate, produce a total of 200 such parts in 4 days, how many days will it take all 6 machines, working simultaneously at this rate, to produce a total of 300 such parts?
A. 4.0
B. 4.5
C. 5.0
D. 5.5
E. 6.0
How many positive integers less than or equal to 29 can be expressed as the product of two different integers greater than 1?
A. 15
The graph summarizes the responses from 4.500 respondents who rated their degree of confidence in each of eight United States institutions. Each respondent gave each institution one of five confidence ratings: high, moderate, little, none, or undecided.

Of the respondents who did not rate their degree of confidence in the federal government undecided, approximately what fraction rated their degree of confidence in that institution little or none?

A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
E. Option E

In the circle with center O, if the length of minor arc MP is 3, what is the area of square region MOPQ ?
A. 9
B. 12
C. 24
D. 36
E. 144
The manufacturing cost of the item that takes the most time to manufacture is approximately what percent greater than the cost of the item that takes the least time to manufacture?
A. 10%
B. 50%
C. 75%
D. 100H
E. 200%

A. Quantity A is greater.
B. Quantity B is greater.
C. The two quantities are equal.
D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
A car service charges S5 for the first mile of a trip and S2 for each additional mile or part thereof. If the car service charges SI01 for an //-mile trip, where // is an integer, what is the value of n ?
A. 47
B. 48
C. 49
D. 50
E. 51