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  1. A NYC Department of Buildings inspector must visit 5 sites: A, B, C, D, and E. Site C must be visited before Site D. Site A must be visited before Site C. Site B must be the last site visited. Which of the following is a valid inspection order?

    Answer: A, C, D, E, B

    A before C, C before D, and B last is satisfied only by A, C, D, E, B.

  2. All NYC sanitation supervisors receive hazard pay. Some hazard pay recipients are union members. Officer Rivera is a NYC sanitation supervisor. Which conclusion must be true?

    Answer: Officer Rivera receives hazard pay

    Since all NYC sanitation supervisors receive hazard pay and Rivera is one, Rivera must receive hazard pay.

  3. A civil service applicant scores higher than exactly 3 other applicants. If there are 8 applicants total, what is the applicant's rank from highest to lowest?

    Answer: 4th

    Scoring higher than exactly 3 others means 3 applicants scored lower, placing this applicant 4th from the top.

  4. Review the pattern: 3, 7, 15, 31, 63, ___. What is the next number?

    Answer: 127

    Each term is doubled and then 1 is added (3×2+1=7, 7×2+1=15, …, 63×2+1=127).

  5. A city clerk files documents in alphabetical order by last name. Which name would be filed THIRD in this list: Torres, Nguyen, Okonkwo, Martinez, Rivera?

    Answer: Okonkwo

    Alphabetically: Martinez, Nguyen, Okonkwo, Rivera, Torres — Okonkwo is third.

  6. A transit officer observes that whenever a train is delayed, platform crowding increases. Platform crowding has not increased today. What can logically be concluded?

    Answer: No trains are delayed today

    By contrapositive logic, if crowding has not increased, then no train is delayed.