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In the decade there has been significant decrease in coffee consumption.During this same time, there has been increasing publicity about the caffeine in coffee's adverse long term effects on health. Therefore, the decrease in coffee consumption must have been caused by consumer's awareness of the harmful caffeine. Which of the following, if true,most seriously calls into question the explanation above ?
A On average,people consume 30% less coffee today than they did 10 years ago
B Sales of specialty types of coffee have held steady as sales of regular brands have declined
C The consumption of fruit juice and caffeine-free herbal tea has increased over the decade
D Coffee prices increased steadily in the past decade because of unusually severs frosts in coffee-growing nation's.
Testifying before the parliament committee investigating charges that cigarette manufactures had manipulated nicotine levels in cigarettes in order consumers to their products, tobacco executives argued that cigarette smoking is not addictive. The primary reason they gave in support of this claim was that cigarette smoking not regulated by the Drug Administration. For the tobacco executives ' argument to be logically correct, which of the following must be assumed?
A Substances that are not adjective are not regulated by the Drug Administration
B The tobacco executives lied when they claimed that cigarette smoking was not adjective
C Some adjective substances are not regulated by the Drug Administration.
D Substances that are not regulated by the Drug Administration are not adjective.
A farmer with 1,350 acres of land had planted his fields with corn, sugar cane, and tobacco in the ratio of 5:3:1, receptively, but he want to make more money, so he shifted the ratio to 2: 4:3 respectively. How many more acres of land were planted with tobacco under the new systems?
A 300
B 150
C 90
D 450
A farmer with 1,350 acres of land had planted his fields with corn, sugar cane, and tobacco in the ratio of 5 : 3 : 1, respectively, but he wanted to make more money, so he shifted the ratio to 2 : 4 : 3 respectively. How many more acres of land were planted with tobacco under the new systems?
A 300
B 150
C 90
D 450
The price of sugar increases by 32%. A family reduces its consumption so that expenditure of the sugar is up by 10% only. If the total consumption of sugar before the price rise was 10 kg per month, then the consumption of sugar per month is approximately-
A 8.33 kg
B 8.5 kg
C 8.35 kg
D 8.73 kg
After the increase of price of oil by 40%, a family decided to reduce its oil consumption so that the expenditure for oil goes up by 26% only. If the total consumption of oil before the price rise was 10 kg per month, then what is the current consumption of oil per month (in kg)?
A 8
B 8.50
C 9
D None of these
Fugacity of a component in an ideal gas mixture is euqal to the partial pressure of that component in the mixture. The fugacity of each component in a stable homogeneous solution at contant pressure and temperature __________ as its mole fraction increases.
A Decreases
B Decreases exponentially
C Increases
D Remains constant
Relative volatility varies with the concentration of component for an ideal solution. The relative volatity of a binary mixture may be defined as the ratio of vapor pressure of component 'A' to that of component 'B', when
A Only vapor phase follows Raoult's law
B Only liquid phase obeys Dalton's law
C Liquid phase obeys Dalton's law and vapor phase obeys Raoult's law
D Vapor phase obeys Dalton's law and liquid phase obeys Raoult's law
During 2011, advertising expenditures on canned food products increased by 20 percent, while canned food consumption rose by 25 percent. Each of the following if true, could help to explain the increase in food consumption EXCEPT-
A Advertising effectiveness increased
B Canned food prices decreased relative to substitutes
C Canned food producer were available in more stores
D Can opener production doubled
During 2011 advertising expenditures on canned food products increased by 20 percent, while canned food consumption rose by 25 percent. Each of the following ,if true, could help to explain the increase in food consumption EXCEPT ---
A advertising effectiveness increased
B Canned food prices decreased relative to substitutes
C Canned food producer were available in more stores
D Can opener production doubled

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