PT125.S4.Q23

PrepTest 125 - Section 4 - Question 23

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Politician: The current crisis in mathematics education must be overcome if we are to remain competitive in the global economy. ███████████ ████ ██████ ████████ ███ ██████████ ██ ██████████ ████████ ████████ ██ ██████ ██ ████████ █ ███████ ███ ███████ ████ ████ ███ ███ ████████ ██ █████ █ ███████████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ██ █████ ████████ ████ ████████

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The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

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If we are to remain competitive in the global economy, we must get students to study math outside of class.

If we are to overcome the crisis in math education, we must get students to study math outside of class.

If students don’t spend a significant amount of time studying math outside of class, then we won’t remain competitive in the global economy.

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23.

Which one of the following ██████████ ███████ █████████ ████ ███ ██████████ ██████

a

If students spend █ ███████████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ██ █████ ████████ ████████████ ███ ███████ ██████ ██ ███████████ █████████ ████ ██ █████████

b

The current crisis ██ ███████████ █████████ ████ ███ ██ ████████ ██████ ████████ █████ █ ███████████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ██ █████ ████████ ████████████

c

Few subjects are ██ █████████ ██ ███████████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ██████ ███████████ ██ ███ ██████ ████████

d

Only if we ███████ ██ █████████ ███████████ ██ ███ ██████ ███████ ████ ████████ █████ █ ███████████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ██ █████ ████████ ████████████

e

Students' spending a ███████████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ██ █████ ████████ ███████████ █████ ████ ██ ██ ██████ ███████████ ██ ███ ██████ ████████

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