Quiz type: Weekly quiz

Quiz No: 1
Date: 07.10.2019
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Writing

Most of us recognize that obesity is not a A) NO CHANGE

benign condition. Diabetes, arthritis, plus heart, liver B) which
and gallbladder diseases commonly plague folks 1 C) who
whose carry major excess poundage. Less familiar is D) in which
the risk of cancer. Being overweight or obese 2 have
been linked to at least 13 types of cancer. Obesity
more than doubles the risk of the most common
A) NO CHANGE
forms of uterine and esophageal cancer. It raises
B) has been
the risk of tumors of the colon, gallbladder, kidney,
C) was
liver, pancreas, upper stomach and brain membranes
D) were
by 50 to 80 percent compared with adults at a
healthy weight, and it ups the odds for multiple
myeloma and cancers of the breast, ovary and
thyroid. A) NO CHANGE
B) Women extreme obesity
The danger tends to rise with the number on C) Extreme obese women
the scale: 3 obese extremely women, for instance, D) Extremely obese women
face seven times the risk of uterine cancer. Obesity
also makes it more likely that certain cancers,
including breast and prostate, will prove fatal or not 4 A) NO CHANGE
respond optimally to treatment. Given that most B) optimal respond
cancers take decades to develop, one has to wonder C) optimal responsiveness
what the eventual cancer toll will look like now that D) optimally responsive
nearly 80 percent of American adults and a third of
children are overweight or obese—up 60 percent and
more than 100 percent, respectively, from 1980.
A) NO CHANGE
An analysis released this year by researchers B) published in the lancet public health
at the American Cancer Society paints an alarming C) the researches published in the lancet public
picture. Their study, 5 they have published it in the health
lancet public health, looks at how cancer rates have D) in which the researches published in the
changed over the past 20 years among younger lancet public health
adults—Americans who came of age during the
steepest rise in obesity—compared with older adults.
Hyuna Sung and her co-authors examined trends for
the 30 most common cancers, 12 of which occur
more often in overweight people. Six of those 12— A) NO CHANGE
colorectal, gallbladder, kidney, multiple myeloma, B) Is
pancreatic and uterine— 6 was found to be rising C) were
more rapidly in younger Americans (ages 25 to 49). D) would be
The sharpest jumps—between 2 and 6 percent
annually— were in the youngest adults (ages 25 to
35). “This is not negligible,” Sung says. “It’s a huge
and very fast increase.”
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Trends in young adults can be seen as a

“bellwether for future disease burden,” Sung notes.
A) NO CHANGE
She also points to number of growing evidences that
B) has started
obesity that 7 starts in childhood or adolescence may
C) start
present a particular risk for some cancers. That said,
D) have started
Sung’s study does not address causality and therefore
does not prove that the uptick in certain malignancies
is a direct consequence of rising obesity.
Other investigators, however, 8 are looking A) NO CHANGE
directly at how obesity might promote cancer. Turns B) is looking
out, excess body fat impacts the body in multiple C) had looked
ways that may aid and abet a developing tumor. “The D) look
whole hormonal milieu changes dramatically with
obesity,” says Stephen Hursting, professor of
nutrition at the University of North Carolina’s
A) NO CHANGE
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The first
B) Includes
“big basket” of changes 9 include a rise in growth
C) has included
factors, including insulin and those that promote
D) will include
blood vessel formation, he explains. A second big
basket involves substances that promote
inflammation. “The obese state is a kind of
smoldering, low but insistent inflammatory state,” A) NO CHANGE
Hursting says. A third alteration is suppression of the B) had fought
immune responses that 10 fight incipient cancers. C) fights
And there are other impacts, including obesity- D) fought
related changes to the microbiome, metabolism and
gene expression. Reading Hursting’s 2018 review of
the many mechanisms linking obesity with cancer A) NO CHANGE
10 were one of the more disturbing things I’ve done B) which
as a health reporter. It made me want to scream at C) whom
the big food industry,11 who has done so much to D) in which
engineer our obesity epidemic.
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Math
6X- 10Y=4
9X-mY=23
If the system of equations above has no solution,
Line L is parallel to line m which passes through the what is the value of m?
origin and the point (4,6). Which of the following can A) 1.5
be the equation of line? B) 23
A) Y= 4X+6 C) 15
B) Y= 2/3X+ 4 D) 10
C) Y= 1.5X + 3
D) Y= 6X+4

When the number m is subtracted from 12, the result

is same as when m is multiplied by 3. What is the
Mathew can read p pages of books every day, and value of m?
Andrew can read 4 less pages per day. If they both A) 3
read 32 pages a book in 2 days, how many books can B) 6
Andrew read? C) 5
A) 18 D) -6
B) 14
C) 10
D) 6
A food truck sells hot chili sandwiches and
Chicken salads. Each sandwich is $7 and each salad is
$12. If the food truck made $130 by selling 15 items,
how many chicken salads did it sell?
5𝑋+13
If =7, what is the value of 15x+2? A) 15
3
A) 26 B) 13
B) 10 C) 10
C) 24 D) 5
D) 18

Line L has a slope of 4 and intersects the y-axis at the

point (0, 5). What is x-intercept of line L?
A) 5
If line q is perpendicular to a line m with an undefined B) 4
slope, which of the following can be the equation of C) 1.25
m? D) 0.5

A) Y= 2x+5
B) Y= 5
3X- 10Y=7
C) X=4
9X-tY=q
D) The provided information is not sufficient.
If the system of equations above has infinitely many
solutions, what is the value of q?
A) 21
B) 10
C) 7
D) The provided information is not sufficient
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Line m is perpendicular to line q which passes

through the origin. if they interest at the point (-9,6), Y=2x-5
what is the y-intercept of line m? 3X-4Y=3
A) 19.5 Which of the following graphs represent the system
B) 7.5 of equations above?
C) -7.5
D) -19.5 A) B)

The equation M=350w+ 25000 represents the

amount of money Robert is saving on a weekly basis
to pay for his college tuition. What does the number
350 most likely represents?
C) D)
A) The amount of money he needs to save for
college
B) The amount of money he is saving every
week
C) His initial savings that he had before he
started saving
D) Number of weeks he needs to save up in
order to make enough money

Line L is represented in xy-plane by the equation

mX-nY= Q and 1<n<m<Q. Which of the following
An audiobook website has 2 subscription packages. could be the graph of line L?
One charges a monthly fee of $20 and allows the user
to listen to 12 audiobooks free of charge, but any
A) B)
additional audiobook costs $2.5. The other one
charges a monthly fee of $5 and allows the user to
listen to 10 audiobooks free of charge, but the user
need to pay $3 for any additional book. How many
books does one need to read per year for the options
to have the same cost?
A) 19
B) 30
C) 216
C) D)
D) 360

An ice cream truck sells ice cream for $6. If the daily
cost of maintaining the truck is $60 and each ice
cream costs $2 to make, how many ice cream does
the truck have to sell every week to break even?
A) 10
B) 15
C) 70
D) 95