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Subha Patel is an olfactory scientist working for International Flavors and Fragrances.
She specializes in finding new scents recorded and reconstituted from nature thanks to Living
Flower Technology. She has extracted fragrance ingredients from different flowering plants
into bottles labeled herbal, sweet, honey, anisic and rose. She has learned that a formula for a
perfume is acceptable if and only if it does not violate any of the rules listed: If the perfume
contains herbal, it must also contain honey and there must be twice as much honey as herbal.
If the perfume contains sweet, it must also contain anisic, and the amount of anisic must
equal the amount of sweet. honey cannot be used in combination with anisic. anisic cannot be
used in combination with rose. If the perfume contains rose, the amount of rose must be
greater than the total amount of the other essence or essences used. Which of the following
could be added to an unacceptable perfume consisting of two parts honey and one part rose to
make it acceptable?
(a) Two parts rose
(b) One part herbal
(c) Two parts honey
(d) One part sweet

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A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/3 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/4 of the distance. By what factor should hare increase its speed so as the win the race?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 12
(d) 5
Recent reports have suggested that sportsmen with decreased metabolic rates perform
better in certain sports. After reading one such report, Jordan, a sportsperson from Arlington
decides to undergo a rigorous physical training program for 3 months, where he performs
Yoga for 3 hours, walks for 2 hours and swims for 1 hour each day. He says: I began my
training on a Wednesday in a prime number month of 2008. I lost 1% of my original weight
within the first 30 days. In the next two months combined, I lost 1 Kg. If he walks at 5 mph
over a certain journey and walks back over the same route at 7 mph at an altitude of 200
meters, what is his average speed for the journey?
(a) 5.83
(b) 2.92
(c) 6.00
(d) 35.00