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14 Jun 2020, 05:40
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The chances of contracting a disease depend more on lifestyle than on your genetic makeup. For example, statistically, a sixty-year old man living a San-Franciscan lifestyle has a 5 percent chance of having a heart attack soon while for a sixty-year man living a Japanese lifestyle, that probability is just 1 percent, statistically. On the other hand, Studies have shown that the risk of heart attack at 60 for Japanese people who adopt the San Franciscan lifestyle is also closer to 5%.
Which of the following can be inferred if the information above is considered true:
(A)person’s genetics make up has little impact while determining their likelihood of having a heart attack
(B)Heart attacks are virtually non-existent for people younger than 60 years of age.
(C)When determining the probability of heart attack of identical groups of Japanese people at 60, a greater weight should be given to the kind of lifestyle they lead than to their genetic makeup.
(D)A diet composed of shellfish, such as those consumed by Japanese, helps prevent coronary heart disease more than a beef filled diet prevalent in the west.
(E)The live expectancy of Japanese people living in San-Francisco is lower than those who live in Japan.
Which of the following can be inferred if the information above is considered true:
(A)person’s genetics make up has little impact while determining their likelihood of having a heart attack
(B)Heart attacks are virtually non-existent for people younger than 60 years of age.
(C)When determining the probability of heart attack of identical groups of Japanese people at 60, a greater weight should be given to the kind of lifestyle they lead than to their genetic makeup.
(D)A diet composed of shellfish, such as those consumed by Japanese, helps prevent coronary heart disease more than a beef filled diet prevalent in the west.
(E)The live expectancy of Japanese people living in San-Francisco is lower than those who live in Japan.
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14 Jun 2020, 06:03
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The main idea : The chances of contracting a disease depend more on lifestyle than on your genetic makeup.
Example: A 60 year old man living in San Francisco has some what high chances of having heart attack than a 60 year old in Japan.
A) person’s genetics make up has little impact while determining their likelihood of having a heart attack
(The passage main idea is lifestyle of two different regions not genetic codes, irrelevant)
B) Heart attacks are virtually non-existent for people younger than 60 years of age.
(No stats given to confirm this statement, the passage is only talking about 60year old human, out of scope)
C) When determining the probability of heart attack of identical groups of Japanese people at 60, a greater weight should be given to the kind of lifestyle they lead than to their genetic makeup.(The main idea, the lifestyle is preferred here over genetics) <<CORRECT>>
D) A diet composed of shellfish, such as those consumed by Japanese, helps prevent coronary heart disease more than a beef filled diet prevalent in the west. (Nothing mentioned regarding diet followed by either of the countrymen, out of scope)
E) The live expectancy of Japanese people living in San-Francisco is lower than those who live in Japan.( The chances of having heart attack doesn't mean it is surely effective life expectancy of humans, irrelevant)
Answer is C
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Example: A 60 year old man living in San Francisco has some what high chances of having heart attack than a 60 year old in Japan.
A) person’s genetics make up has little impact while determining their likelihood of having a heart attack
(The passage main idea is lifestyle of two different regions not genetic codes, irrelevant)
B) Heart attacks are virtually non-existent for people younger than 60 years of age.
(No stats given to confirm this statement, the passage is only talking about 60year old human, out of scope)
C) When determining the probability of heart attack of identical groups of Japanese people at 60, a greater weight should be given to the kind of lifestyle they lead than to their genetic makeup.(The main idea, the lifestyle is preferred here over genetics) <<CORRECT>>
D) A diet composed of shellfish, such as those consumed by Japanese, helps prevent coronary heart disease more than a beef filled diet prevalent in the west. (Nothing mentioned regarding diet followed by either of the countrymen, out of scope)
E) The live expectancy of Japanese people living in San-Francisco is lower than those who live in Japan.( The chances of having heart attack doesn't mean it is surely effective life expectancy of humans, irrelevant)
Answer is C
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14 Jun 2020, 17:38
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(B)Heart attacks are virtually non-existent for people younger than 60 years of age.
(C)When determining the probability of heart attack of identical groups of Japanese people at 60, a greater weight should be given to the kind of lifestyle they lead than to their genetic makeup. - (C) can be supported based on the information provided in the passage. Hence, (C) is the right answer choice.
(D)A diet composed of shellfish, such as those consumed by Japanese, helps prevent coronary heart disease more than a beef filled diet prevalent in the west.
(E)The live expectancy of Japanese people living in San-Francisco is lower than those who live in Japan
