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In the at-plane, line k intersects the rectangle shown at points P and O.
Which of the following represents the slope of line k ?
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There is a long-standing historical presumption that social custom during ihe 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 passage suggests that women's education during the IS 10s differed from women's education during the
1790s and early 1800s in that women's education during the 1810s

• A. suffered from the reduced availability of inexpensive textbooks
• B. was based on a more modem vision of what constituted civilized society
• C. assumed that women could become politically active
• D. emphasized the relationship between rhetorical skills and civic virtue
• E. placed less emphasis on public speaking

There are far too many (i)________in the report, such as incorrect data (albeit on (ii)________points).
inconsistency between the text and related tables, and discrepancies between the citations and the references.

• A. numerous
• B. minor
• C. perplexing
• D. little errors
• E. unsupported generalizations
• F. stylistic infelicities

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?

• A. 45%
• B. 50%
• C. 35%
• D. 40%
• E. 55%

Like paleontologists who interpret timescales from fossil evidence, we infer the history of star formation in the Milky Way galaxy from the heavy-element composition of its stars. According to the big bang theory of the origin of the universe, the first gas clouds-and the first generation of stars formed from them-were composed of pure hydrogen and helium; most heavier elements- iron and calcium, for example-came later, created by explosions of supernovas, massive stars in their death throes. Loaded with heavy elements, material ejected from supernovas enriched the interstellar gas clouds from which the next generation of stars formed, the level of heavy elements increasing with succeeding generations. Because most stars live for many billions of years and because the Milky Way is thus composed of multiple stellar generations, comparing the number of stars of low heavy-element abundance with those of high heavy-element abundance enables astronomers to untangle the history of star formation in the Milky Way.
The passage contains information about each of the following subjects EXCEPT the

• A. events that led to the presence of heavier elements in stars
• B. composition of early generations of stars
• C. composition of early interstellar gas clouds
• D. time in the history of the galaxy when calcium and iron first appeared
• E. age of the Milky Way galaxy relative to the age of other galaxies