Admission Tests Graduate Management Admission Test : GMAT

Morowa: As a general rule, those responsible for harming the environment should be responsible for fixing it.
Thus, businesses should pay for and clean up environmental
problems they cause.
Thema: Are the businesses the only ones responsible? Oftentimes, consumers drive businesses to produce products in environmentally damaging ways by primarily purchasing inexpensive items that disproportionally result in greater environmental harm.
Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for Morowa's argument in light of Thema's reply?

• A. Having businesses pay for and clean up their environmental problems can pass along some of the cost to consumers.
• B. Consumers of such products know that they are responsible for harming the environment.
• C. At least some consumers purchase products that they know are environmentally friendly.
• D. Being inexpensive does not necessarily result in environmental harm.
• E. Most consumers purchase at least some products that do not substantially harm the environment.

The table gives Information about teacher absenteeism in 21 school systems worldwide for 2012-2013. For each school system, the table gives the country where It Is located, the number of teachers It employed m
2012-2013, the average number of days those teachers were absent, and the percent of those teachers who were chronically absent (absent 18 or more days).

For each of the following statements, select Yes if, based on the information provided, it can be inferred that the statement is true. Otherwise, select NO.

A region in a plane is said to be convex if, for every two points in the region, the line segment joining the two points is completely contained in the region. If a sector of a circle has a central angle with degree measure m >
0, which of the following determines the set of all values of m (less than 360) for which the sector is convex?

• A. 0 < m 180
• B. 180 m < 360
• C. 0 < m < 360
• D. 0 < m > 90
• E. 90 m 180

Protectionist trade restrictions harm large segments of society for the benefit of a smaller segment. For example, every time the steel industry asks for tariffs on steel Imports from foreign countries, someone correctly points out that if that wish were granted, it would harm the United States auto industry and other steel users, not to mention consumers. Protectionist trade restrictions serve particular interests and only rarely also the general welfare. But the U.S. Constitution requires the government to serve the general welfare. It follows that__________.
Which of the following best completes the passage?

• A. the general welfare requires protectionist trade restrictions
• B. government measures that serve the general interest are generally compatible with the U.S. Constitution
• C. protectionist trade restrictions are usually incompatible with the U.S. Constitution
• D. most U.S. domestic industries are probably helped, not hindered, by foreign competition
• E. trade restrictions of any kind are unconstitutional

Client: You've recommended that we use humor In our new radio advertising campaign. Why be funny on the radio when we haven't been funny in advertising campaigns for other media?
Advertising director: Because humor on the radio is very engaging. Two other common approaches to radio advertising-using announcers and producing short catchy songs or jingles-are both so inherent In the existing radio programming that commercials using those two approaches often get tost in the programs. Humor, on the other hand, Is rare -so rare it stands out and engages completely.
The advertising director's argument depends on an assumption of cause and effect. Indicate by an appropriate selection which of the statements In the table most accurately describes the cause of such an effect, and which most accurately describes such an effect. Make only two selection one in each column.