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A patient complained of feeling constantly fatigued. It was determined 22 Jul 2014, 00:07
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A patient complained of feeling constantly fatigued. It was determined that the patient averaged only four to six hours of sleep per night, and this was determined to contribute to the patient's condition. However, the patient was not advised to sleep more.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the information above?

(A) The shorter one's sleep time, the easier it is to awaken from sleeping.
(B) The first two hours of sleep do the most to alleviate fatigue.
(C) Some people required less sleep than the eight hours required by the average person.
(D) Most people who suffer from nightmares experience them in the last hour of sleep before waking.
(E) Worry about satisfying the need for sufficient sleep can make it more difficult to sleep.
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A patient complained of feeling constantly fatigued. It was determined 02 Sep 2016, 04:20
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A patient complained of feeling constantly fatigued. It was determined that the patient averaged only four to six hours of sleep per night, and this was determined to contribute to the patient's condition. However, the patient was not advised to sleep more.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the information above?
(A) The shorter one's sleep time, the easier it is to awaken from sleeping.
(B) The first two hours of sleep do the most to alleviate fatigue.
(C) Some people required less sleep than the eight hours required by the average person.
(D) Most people who suffer from nightmares experience them in the last hour of sleep before waking.
(E) Worry about satisfying the need for sufficient sleep can make it more difficult to sleep.
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Premise: 1. A patient feeling constantly fatigued.
2. Patient Sleeping only for four to six hours per night.

Conclusion: Less Sleep is contributing to the patient's condition
Paradox: The patient was not advised to sleep more.

(A) The shorter one's sleep time, the easier it is to awaken from sleeping.
Out of Scope - Ease of waking up is not the issue

(B) The first two hours of sleep do the most to alleviate fatigue.
Patient is already sleeping for 4 to 6 hours every night. Therefore, constant feeling of Fatigue means that even though most of the fatigue is alleviated, patient still need more sleep. Hence, the paradox is not resolved.

(C) Some people required less sleep than the eight hours required by the average person.
This patient IS sleeping for less than 8 hrs and still feeling fatigued. Therefore, the current patient is nor one of those people.

(D) Most people who suffer from nightmares experience them in the last hour of sleep before waking.
Out of scope - We are not concerned about what happens in the last hour of sleep before waking.

(E) Worry about satisfying the need for sufficient sleep can make it more difficult to sleep.
If true, it would create a vicious circle. Less Sleep -> Fatigue -> Solve by Sleeping more -> More worry about Sleeping -> Difficulty Sleeping -> Less Sleep -> ...
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A patient complained of feeling constantly fatigued. It was determined that the patient averaged only four to six hours of sleep per night, and this was determined to contribute to the patient's condition. However, the patient was not advised to sleep more.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the information above?
(A) The shorter one's sleep time, the easier it is to awaken from sleeping.
(B) The first two hours of sleep do the most to alleviate fatigue.
(C) Some people required less sleep than the eight hours required by the average person.
(D) Most people who suffer from nightmares experience them in the last hour of sleep before waking.
(E) Worry about satisfying the need for sufficient sleep can make it more difficult to sleep.
Premise: 1. A patient feeling constantly fatigued.
2. Patient Sleeping only for four to six hours per night.

Conclusion: Less Sleep is contributing to the patient's condition
Paradox: The patient was not advised to sleep more.

(A) The shorter one's sleep time, the easier it is to awaken from sleeping.

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Out of Scope - Ease of waking up is not the issue

(B) The first two hours of sleep do the most to alleviate fatigue.
Patient is already sleeping for 4 to 6 hours every night. Therefore, constant feeling of Fatigue means that even though most of the fatigue is alleviated, patient still need more sleep. Hence, the paradox is not resolved.

(C) Some people required less sleep than the eight hours required by the average person.
This patient IS sleeping for less than 8 hrs and still feeling fatigued. Therefore, the current patient is nor one of those people.

(D) Most people who suffer from nightmares experience them in the last hour of sleep before waking.
Out of scope - We are not concerned about what happens in the last hour of sleep before waking.

(E) Worry about satisfying the need for sufficient sleep can make it more difficult to sleep.
If true, it would create a vicious circle. Less Sleep -> Fatigue -> Solve by Sleeping more -> More worry about Sleeping -> Difficulty Sleeping -> Less Sleep -> ...
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Can you please elaborate on why option B is incorrect? Not clear
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Resolve paradox Type Question

A patient complained of feeling constantly fatigued. It was determined that the patient averaged only four to six hours of sleep per night, and this was determined to contribute to the patient's condition. However, the patient was not advised to sleep more.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the information above?

(A) The shorter one's sleep time, the easier it is to awaken from sleeping.
The ease of Awakening from sleep does not associate itself with fatigue alleviation.
(B) The first two hours of sleep do the most to alleviate fatigue.
Good for the first two hours but is a known fact that humans requie 6-8 hours of sleep and just because the first two hours do the most to alleviate fatigue does not mean that patient should also sleep just for 2 hours.Also alleviating fatigue from previous day doe not mean that the next day will be equally fatigue induced and may be more stressfull than the previous day.
(C) Some people required less sleep than the eight hours required by the average person.
Some people require less sleep but we dont know if our subject lies in the group of those some people or not and so the doctor cannot assume the patient to be in that group and aslo the same is not state in the argument as well.
(D) Most people who suffer from nightmares experience them in the last hour of sleep before waking.
Nightmares are not mentioned in the argument.Although some might say nightmares may be related to fatigue but it is not a fact which is mentioned int he argument and for that reason it is out of scope.
(E) Worry about satisfying the need for sufficient sleep can make it more difficult to sleep.
Good explaination of why it is not adviced to sleep more even when more sleep is needed because such advice will act counter productive and lead to even lesser sleep.
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B is incorrect for following reason.
Two hours do the most (say 70% ) to alleviate the fatigue, but what about the remaining (30%) of the fatigue.
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Guys, the option E is correct :

(E) Worry about satisfying the need for sufficient sleep can make it more difficult to sleep.

But tell me that why are we immediately concluding that advising the patient to sleep more will worry him ?
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