SNAP Daily Practice Day 5

“Abate” means to reduce or lessen, so its direct opposite is “increase”.

“Assort” means to sort into groups, and “renounce” means to give up, so neither is related. “Sustain” means to keep something going, which is not the same as making it greater.

“Shy” does not take “for” before a verb-ing form. The correct phrase is “shy about dancing in public”.

Parts A and B are grammatically correct, so D (No error) is wrong.

The correct spelling is “acquaintance”, with “acq-” at the start and “-ance” at the end.

A ends in “-ence”. B drops the “c” in “acq-”. C makes both mistakes.

To “cut corners” is to do something carelessly or below standard, usually to save time or money.

A is about dodging duty, not poor-quality work. C is close, but it misses the idiom’s key idea that quality suffers. D is positive, while the idiom is critical.

A conjunction joins words or clauses. “But” links the two contrasting clauses in this sentence.

“Go” is a verb and “too” is an adverb. D is wrong because “but” is a conjunction.

• Fixed block: the pharmacist, journalist and teacher stand together in that order.
• Advocate: two places to the pharmacist’s right is the teacher, so the advocate must be two places to the left. The accountant is immediately left of the advocate.
• Architect: three places left of the pharmacist is the accountant, so the architect is three places to the right, at the end of the row.
• Doctor: the doctor takes the one remaining seat. This leaves two people between the doctor and the teacher ✓

Position 4 is the middle of the row, so the answer is the Pharmacist.

Follow the process from field to food: plough the field (1) → sow the seeds (5) → produce the wheat (3) → grind the wheat (4) → make the dough (6) → make the bread (2).

A and C sow before ploughing. B makes dough before grinding the wheat. C also makes bread before dough.

• I is implicit: the systems were introduced to promote environmentally friendly transport, which means encouraging alternatives to motor vehicles.
• II is not implicit: the passage states the aim of reducing congestion, but it gives no evidence that congestion has actually fallen.

Detailed solution coming soon.

• 26 Jan 1947 to 26 Jan 1950: 3 years including the leap day of 1948 = 1096 days, which leaves 4 odd days.
• 26 Jan 1950 to 15 Aug 1950: 5 + 28 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 15 = 201 days, which leaves 5 odd days.
• Total: 4 + 5 = 9 odd days, which reduces to 2.

Going back 2 days from Tuesday gives Sunday.

• I follows: nothing rules out the rings falling inside the part of bangles that are anklets, so this is possible.
• II follows: some bangles are anklets, and no anklet is a pendant. Those bangles cannot be pendants, so all bangles cannot be pendants.

Rule: a#b = (a × b) + the average of a and b.

• 11#3 = 33 + 7 = 40 ✓
• 9#7 = 63 + 8 = 71 ✓
• 13#5 = 65 + 9 = 74

Split the word into two groups of four letters and reverse each group.

• TROP → PORT and ICAL → LACI ✓
• DIST → TSID and ANCE → ECNA, which gives TSIDECNA

The diagonals of a rhombus bisect each other at right angles, so half of the known diagonal is 4.

Half of the other diagonal = √(5² − 4²) = 3, so the other diagonal is 6.

Area = 12 × 8 × 6 = 24.

Let the marked price be M and the cost price be C. Then 0.70M = 0.875C, so C = 0.8M.

To break even, the selling price must be 0.8M. That is a discount of 20%.

Let the prices be p, s and e. Then 15(p + s + e) = 135, so p + s + e = 9.

Also, p + 2s + 3e = 17. Adding this to the required basket gives (p + 2s + 3e) + (3p + 2s + e) = 4(p + s + e) = 36.

So 3p + 2s + e = 36 − 17 = 19. She needs 19 − 17 = Rs 2 more.

Let A have n books. Then B has n + 5 books and C has n books.

The difference in average price between C and A is (a − 3) − (a − 14) = 11, so 1120 − 900n = 11 and n = 20.

Average price in A = 900 ÷ 20 = 45 = a − 14, so a = 59.

Check with B: 1000 ÷ 25 = 40 = 59 − 19 ✓

Interest for 4 years = 10780 − 8220 = 2560, so interest per year = 640.

Principal = 8220 − (3 × 640) = 6300.

Amount after 15 years = 6300 + (15 × 640) = Rs. 15900.

The trains move towards each other, so their relative speed = 55 + 80 = 135 km/hr.

Time = 1 hour 36 minutes = 1.6 hours.

Distance = 135 × 1.6 = 216 km.

Let the numbers be 29a and 29b, where a and b are co-prime. Then a + b = 464 ÷ 29 = 16.

Co-prime pairs that add up to 16 are (1, 15), (3, 13), (5, 11) and (7, 9).

So there are 4 pairs.

• 1: a documented medical need is the most serious factor, so it comes first.
• 3: if there is no such need, apply the company’s written policy.
• 4: if policy is silent, consider fairness based on past treatment.
• 2: a coin toss or lottery is a last resort, used only if nothing else decides it.

A and B put policy ahead of medical need, and A also puts past treatment ahead of medical need. C puts past treatment ahead of company policy.

Translation software learns patterns from existing text. If that text often links doctors with “he” and nurses with “she”, the software repeats and reinforces the stereotype.

A wrongly gives software its own malicious intent. C is an extreme claim that does not explain the pattern. D assumes deliberate coding, and nothing in the scenario supports that.

Marketing claims must be truthful. A product with artificial preservatives is not “100% Natural”, so the label is false whatever its other ingredients are.

A shifts the burden onto consumers to catch a false headline claim. B keeps the false claim in smaller print. D uses competitors’ behaviour as an excuse, which does not make the claim true.

Cancelling is openly permitted by the terms of service, and the goodwill discount acknowledges the customers’ disappointment. This protects the business while treating customers honestly.

A causes needless financial ruin over an obvious error. C charges customers without their consent. D is a lie that hides the mistake.

People reasonably expect their conversations at home to stay private. Recording background talk and sharing it with advertisers breaks that expectation, even if the snippets are anonymised.

B is wrong because nobody is being stopped from speaking. C is a competition issue, not a privacy principle. D treats ordinary conversations as intellectual property, which misses the real harm.