If in 1995 revenue from the sale of classical music recordings was $$\frac{1}{2}$$ of its 1994 value while revenue from the sale of all other recordings shown was the same as in 1994, approximately what percent of the total 1995 revenue was from the sale of classical music recordings?
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The graph of line k in the xy-plane has an x-intercept of -5 and a slope of $$-\frac{3}{2}$$. If k passes through the point (2, c), what is the value of c?
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Though her works demonstrate a remarkable dexterity and command of technique with oil paint, as an artist Mangala Bai Thampuratty (1866-1953) was not ____________, having produced only a few paintings.
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The evidence for short-term effects of prenatal and early postnatal conditions on barn swallow is (i)____________. However, early-life ecological conditions, such as the size of the brood in which young are reared, may be similarly (ii)____________, affecting birds well into adulthood.
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The good news is that even though the new program sounds quite (i)____________, it is not technologically (ii)____________. The transformation will take decades, even generations, to complete, but industrial experts affirms that it is achievable. Starting promptly on this historic commitment will (iii)____________, or at least mitigate, the larger catastrophes ahead.
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One explanation for the (i)____________ science in late antiquity has to do with the (ii)____________ of science and technology: given the prevailing belief that natural knowledge should not be applied to practical ends, the incentive for scientists to search for practical applications of abstract theories of nature was (iii)____________.
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Which of the following is an accurate statement about Kuba ndop sculptures as they are described in the passage?
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The passage mentions "Washburn's examination" in order to
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Ralph Cohen, in his 1964 critical history of Thomson's The Seasons, argued nearly half a century ago that illustrations are criticism of the works they illustrate. More recently, critics have fruitfully explored illustrations of the works of Defoe and Sterne. In her study of graphic design and the novel, Janine Barchas has explained the function of illustrations as interpretive guides." Barchas mainly discusses frontispieces, but her point applies to other kinds of illustrations. In the case of Tobias Smollett, illustrations not only indicate what illustrators thought of the novels, but may also reveal how those novels were received by readers. The number and diversity of the images are especially valuable because, as Fred W. Boege long ago demonstrated, we know relatively little about how eighteenth-century readers conceived of Smollett as a novelist. Our understanding of Smollett's reception has improved since Boege's time, but some difficulties in knowing what readers thought of Smollett remain, because recorded responses are scanty. Roderick Random, for instance, did not receive any reviews, since it was published before reviewing contemporary fiction became widespread. And reviews of the other novels consist mainly of large excerpts from the work itself with a few general remarks on how well the characters are conceived. Nor do the few responses we have provide a consistent picture of how Smollett was read. The illustrations, therefore, give us alternative perspectives that can only enrich our understanding of Smollett's reception.
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Which of the following can be informed from the passage about Roderick Random?
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Which of the following, if it were found, would provide evidence to help address the highlighted problem?
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The passage suggests that eighteenth-century reviewers of Smollett's novels were likely to
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Despite growing evidence of a positive association between consumption of whole grains and long-term health, a research gap exists between observational studies and the elucidation of the mechanism involved, mechanisms that in some cases are still quite____________.
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Year after year, officials offer apparently ____________ promises, so as to muster public support for ambitious engineering projects, but reality arrives years later in the form of outlandish expenditures and systems that fail to perform as promised.
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According to the passage, the relative sizes of lizards at different altitudes represented a "puzzle" because they contradicted an assumption about how
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Which of the following best describes the overall organization of the passage?
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It can be inferred from the passage that the Chinese emperor and the bureaucracy differed with respect to the
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