23. The nursing shortage in this country is a phony one, caused by the concentration of nurses in the geographical regions with the highest pay and the most generous fringe benefits for nurses. In addition, the League of American Nurses has artificially worsened the shortage by encouraging nursing schools to keep enrollments low in order to boost nurses’ salaries to even higher levels.

    All of the statements, if true, would tend to Weaken the argument above except.

    (A) Nationwide, the salaries of nurses have risen at a slower rate than inflation over the last ten years.
    (B) The League of American Nurses has almost no influence on the policies of American nursing schools.
    (C) Although nurses are paid less in Texas than in Connecticut, there are 35% more nurses in Texas than in Connecticut.
    (D) Those areas of the country with the highest pay for nurses also have correspondingly higher living costs.
    (E) The number of students who earned degrees in nursing last year was almost double the number six years ago.

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24. The most serious logical weakness of this argument is its failure to

    (A) Specify the exact price difference between the Mesa X-2700 and old-fashioned Stereo systems.
    (B) Show the relevance of space-age circuitry to the requirements of home stereo.
    (C) Explain the precise meaning of the technical terms used.
    (D) acknowledge the contributions of scientists in the space program to the development of the advanced circuitry mentioned.
    (E) Provide technical data on the manufacturing specifications of the Mesa X-2700.

25. A sentence is defined to be metaphysical if it purports to express a genuine proposition, but actually, expresses neither a tautology nor an empirical hypothesis. And as tautologies and empirical hypothesis form the entire class of meaningful propositions, we are justified in concluding that all metaphysical assertions are nonsensical.

    (A) the claim that a sentence is meaningful were itself tautological.
    (B) the claim that meaningful statements are empirical or tautological were itself neither tautological nor empirical.
    (C) metaphysics were poetry.
    (D) no one besides the author understood the argument.
    (E) there were meaningful statements that were neither empirical nor tautological.

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Index

Test 3
Section 1 : Verbal Section
Section 2 : Quantitative Section
Section 3 : Analytical Section
Section 4 : Quantitative Section
Section 5 : Verbal Section
Section 6 : Analytical Section
Section 7 : Quantitative Section
Answer key to Test 3