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Sentence Completions

  1. The __________ of mass literacy coincided with the first industrial revolution; in turn, the new expansion in literacy, as well as cheap printing, helped to nurture the __________ of popular literature.
  2. There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose study has been ______ to the extent that they no longer ______ ecologists.

Quantitative Comparison

  1. Betty spent $75 for a bicycle and she also spent $27 repairing it. She then sold it for $120.
    • Column A
      The money Betty received in excess of the total amount she spent
    • Column B
      $20
  2.  
    • Column A
      The number of months in 7 years
    • Column B
      The number of days in 12 weeks

Problem Solving

  1. If a small juice can contains 200 milliliters of juice, how many liters of juice are there in the 48 small cans contained in a case? (1 liter = 1,000 milliliters)
  2. In a certain shop, notebooks that normally sell for 59 cents each are on sale at 2 for 99 cents. How much can be saved by purchasing 10 of these notebooks at the sale price?

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