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Smooth muscle lines hollow organs (e.g., intestines, blood vessels, bronchi), features spindle-shaped, uninucleate cells, lacks striations, and is regulated involuntarily via the autonomic nervous system and local factors (hormones, stretch). It contracts slowly, can sustain tone, and exhibits myogenic activity in some tissues. Skeletal muscle attaches to the skeleton via tendons, shows striations from sarcomere organization, consists of long multinucleated fibers, and is under voluntary somatic control (though reflexes also activate it). Option A inverts properties; C describes skeletal, not smooth. D is the opposite of smooth muscle’s physiology; skeletal muscle is the one associated with voluntary control and variable fatigue. TEAS frequently compares muscle types: cardiac muscle is striated, uninucleate, branched, with intercalated discs and involuntary control. Remember the triad: skeletal (striated, voluntary, multinucleated), smooth (non-striated, involuntary, single nucleus), cardiac (striated, involuntary, single nucleus, intercalated discs).

“Most” means greater than 50%. The strongest support is direct, quantitative evidence from the relevant population. Choice C presents a large-sample survey (n=800) measuring the exact preference and demonstrating a majority (62%). Option A is anecdotal and focuses on design, not preference breadth. B is irrelevant—blood pressure outcomes do not address scheduling preference. D is an opinion piece without local measurement; national advocacy may not reflect this clinic’s patients. On TEAS, align claim wording with evidence type: scope (local vs. national), metric (preference percentage), and threshold (majority). Prefer data with clear denominators, adequate sample sizes, and direct measurement of the stated outcome over opinion or tangential metrics.

Cortisol, a glucocorticoid produced by the adrenal cortex (zona fasciculata) under HPA axis control (CRH → ACTH → cortisol), plays a key role in the longer-phase stress response. It increases blood glucose by stimulating gluconeogenesis and mobilizing amino acids and lipids, ensuring substrate availability during prolonged stress. It also suppresses immune and inflammatory pathways by inhibiting cytokine production and leukocyte function. Thus B is correct. Option A reverses the metabolic effect—cortisol does not lower glucose, and it typically reduces GI activity during stress. Option C lists parasympathetic effects (salivation) and bronchoconstriction, which oppose stress physiology. Option D reflects the immediate sympathetic catecholamine (epinephrine/norepinephrine) effects from the adrenal medulla, not cortisol; cortisol’s genomic actions generally manifest over minutes to hours. TEAS Science expects mapping hormone source → stimulus → target effects. Recognize the axis and feedback: rising cortisol negatively feeds back on CRH/ACTH. Clinically, exogenous glucocorticoids exploit these anti-inflammatory properties but can cause hyperglycemia, immunosuppression, and adrenal suppression with chronic use—classic applications of cortisol’s physiologic roles.

Apply sequential percentage operations multiplicatively, not additively. First, markup: (24 \times 1.35 = 32.40) dollars. Then apply the discount to the new price: (32.40 \times 0.80 = 25.92) dollars. Thus, $25.92 (A) is correct. Choice D ($32.40) stops after the markup, ignoring the discount. Choice B ($28.80) incorrectly averages or subtracts percentages additively (35% − 20% = 15%; (24 \times 1.15 = 27.60), which doesn’t match any option and reflects flawed reasoning). Choice C ($30.00) suggests rounding or applying the 20% discount to the original cost rather than the marked-up price ((24 \times 0.80 = 19.20); then adding markup—order matters). TEAS Math emphasizes order of operations for successive percent changes: each step scales the current value. A quick check: a 35% markup raises price; a 20% discount pulls it down but not back to the original because (0.80 \times 1.35 = 1.08); net effect is an 8% increase overall. Indeed, (24 \times 1.08 = 25.92), confirming the calculation.

For a plural noun that already ends in -s (nurses), form the possessive by adding only an apostrophe after the s: nurses’ lounge—option B. Option A (nurses’s) incorrectly adds an extra ’s to a regular plural. Option C (nurse’s) is singular possessive and would mean one nurse owns the lounge—contrary to the prompt’s “group of nurses.” Option D misplaces the apostrophe and creates an awkward, unidiomatic “of” phrase. TEAS frequently checks possessives with plural owners (patients’ charts, doctors’ offices), singular owners (patient’s chart), and irregular plurals (children’s ward). A quick rule: identify the base noun and whether it is singular or plural; for regular plurals ending in -s, append ’ only; for singulars and irregular plurals (children, men, women), add ’s. In professional writing, clear possession prevents ambiguity about ownership or responsibility (e.g., “the patients’ rights forms” vs “the patient’s rights form”). When in doubt, paraphrase with of: “the lounge of the nurses” indicates a plural owner, guiding you to nurses’.