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Question

Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

Appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix) is potentially fatal; consequently, patients with symptoms strongly suggesting appendicitis almost have their appendix removed. The appropriate surgery is low- risk but performed unnecessarily in about 20 percent of all cases. A newly developed internal scan for appendicitis is highly accurate, producing two misdiagnoses for every 98 correct diagnoses. Clearly, using this test, doctors can largely avoid unnecessary removals of the appendix without, however, performing any fewer necessary ones than before, since

 

Difficulty Level

Medium

Solution

Option B is the correct answer.

Option Analysis

Question type: Inference based.  

Summary of the argument: Since this is an inference question, you will need to jump to the options and find an answer choice that is 100% true based on the facts given.  

 

A) There is no information in the argument that talks about other conditions than appendicitis.  

B) Correct Answer 

C) This is not true as the argument clearly states that 2 cases are misdiagnosed.  

D) We don’t have information about the other symptoms.  

E) No information about symptoms.