Math The following boxplot shows the 2012 season runs batted in (RBIs) of 280 American League batters (the top 280 batters in terms of number of plate appearances). 1) What is the size of the IQR of this distribution? A. 25 B. 47 C. 56 D. 83 E. 140 Correct Answer - B - (click...

Verbal The paleontologist's (i) ____________ orthodoxy meant that the evidence he had so painstakingly gathered would inevitably be (ii) __________ by his more conventional colleagues. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) break with (D) considered (B) dependence on (E) contested (C) reputation for (F) classified Correct Answer - A and E - (click and drag your mouse to see...

Math In a survey, 86 high school students were randomly selected and asked how many hours of television they had watched in the previous week. The histogram below displays their answers. Quantity A Quantity B The mean number of hours of TV watched last week The median number of hours...

Verbal While the disease is in (i) __________ state it is almost impossible to determine its existence by (ii) _________ . Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) a critical (D) postulate (B) a latent (E) methodology (C) an overt (F) observation Correct Answer - B and F - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion &...

Math The stiffness of a diving board is proportional to the cube of its thickness and inversely proportional to the cube of its length. If diving board A is twice as long as diving board B and has 8 times the stiffness of diving board B,...

Verbal Breaking with established musical traditions, Stravinsky was (i) ___________ composer whose (ii) _______ works infuriated the traditionalists of his day. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) a derivative (D) hackneyed (B) an uncontroversial (E) heterodox (C) an iconoclastic (F)euphonious Correct Answer - C and E - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion &...

Math If a – b = 16 and  , what is the value  ? (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 15 Correct Answer - E  - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion & Explanation GRE Question of the Day - Click to Subscribe via email

Verbal As any visitor to Claude Monet's final home at Giverny can __________, Japanese prints were the artist's passion: his home overflows with works by Hiroshige, Utamaro, and other Japanese masters. Blank (i) (A) portray (B) attest (C) contest (D) rectify (E) invalidate Correct Answer - B - (click and drag your mouse to see...

Math Each number SN in a sequence can be expressed as a function of the preceding number (SN–1) as follows: SN =  SN–1 – 4. Which of the following equations correctly expresses the value of SN in this sequence in terms of SN+2? A) Sn =  Sn+2 +18 B) Sn...

Verbal At night, schools of prey and predators are almost always spectacularly illuminated by the bioluminescence produced by the microscopic and larger plankton. The reason for the ubiquitous production of light by the microorganisms of the sea remains obscure and suggested explanations are controversial. It has...