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.

If 20 percent of the respondents rated both their degree of confidence in the federal government and their degree of confidence in the news media high or moderate, what percent of the respondents gave neither of these institutions a confidence rating of high or moderate?

If the sum of two positive prime numbers is 5. which of the following is a multiple of the product of the two numbers?

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How many fnsi-ye.it students did 112! take the placemen! exam in 1995 ?

Not only do the brains of people with great memories appear anatomically_________those of control subjects, but in terms of general cognitive ability, great memorizers appear to be well within the normal range.

There is a long-standing historical presumption that social custom during the early years of the United States forbade women from public speaking. In fact, though, the standard mode of education of the 1790s and early 1800s. which emphasized oral recitation and performance, taught girls that educated and well-spoken women had an important role to play in American society. By depicting skilled speech as a necessary talent for women in a civilized society, elocutionary education encouraged a certain degree of female ambition and even political involvement. Transmitted via standard, inexpensive schoolbooks. this message reached virtually all who read schoolbooks or attended schools. This environment did not last long, however: even by the 1S10s. attitudes about women ' s education had changed considerably.

The author would probably agree with which of the following statements about the " historical presumption " ?

Our eating habits are rooted in our physiology, but they are also_________the culture in which we grow up.

Although a Inch concentration of cholesterol in the blood increases the body ' s ability to fight off infections it typically also increases the risk of dying from a stroke or heart attack, two of the most common causes of death However, in a recently completed ten-year study of people eighty-five and older, higher cholesterol levels tended to be associated with greater longevity.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the contrast between the highlighted effect of high cholesterol levels and the result of the study?

Souk years ago someone in the police force had discovered a way of manipulating crime statislics; the

methods used, though simple, were not immediately transparent, and without actually being__________were

nevertheless utterly misleading.