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­Physician: Scottish researchers have developed a test that allows them to predict at what age a woman will experience menopause. The scientists use a model that compares a woman’s ovaries to “average” ovaries to see whether her ovaries are aging faster or more slowly than average. They have discovered that the size of ovaries is directly related to the number of eggs they contain, which in turn is directly related to fertility. This discovery will significantly influence women’s decisions on when to have children.

The physician’s conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

(A) Women with smaller ovaries tend to have less success with assisted reproduction techniques, such as in vitro fertilization.

(B) Most women experience menopause around the age of 50, but their fertility starts to decline at the age of 37.

(C) Women who want to have children increasingly seek to delay doing so for many varied reasons.

(D) The test cannot tell women how likely they are to conceive in the years just prior to menopause.

(E) Every woman is born with several million eggs in her ovaries, which formed while she was a fetus; the number of eggs dwindles over her lifetime, until at menopause she has 1,000 or fewer.

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Answer is C.

Here Author’s (Physician) conclusion is about women’s decision on when to have children. Not at all anything about ovaries or eggs or fertility. So C is the only option which the author could assume for making his conclusion.
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­I think it is A,
It directly links the test's findings about ovary size to potential difficulties with assisted reproduction, thereby providing a clear reason why women might change their decisions about when to have children based on the test results.
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Option B?

The size of ovaries is proportional to the number of eggs inside proportional to fertility

Conclusion: this discovery can influence women when to have babies..

How?
This is not a basic assumption qs is what I felt

(A) Women with smaller ovaries tend to have less success with assisted reproduction techniques, such as in vitro fertilization. - when you negate this, this falsies the study saying smaller ovaries have higher fertility so I removed this option
(B) Most women experience menopause around the age of 50, but their fertility starts to decline at the age of 37. - when you negate this it massive breaks the conclusion down.
(C) Women who want to have children increasingly seek to delay doing so for many varied reasons. - nope
(D) The test cannot tell women how likely they are to conceive in the years just prior to menopause.- nope
(E) Every woman is born with several million eggs in her ovaries, which formed while she was a fetus; the number of eggs dwindles over her lifetime, until at menopause she has 1,000 or fewer. - this doesn't mention anything on fertility etc so­­
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­I think it is A,
It directly links the test's findings about ovary size to potential difficulties with assisted reproduction, thereby providing a clear reason why women might change their decisions about when to have children based on the test results.
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A is more of a strengthener than an assumption

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­Physician: Scottish researchers have developed a test that allows them to predict at what age a woman will experience menopause. The scientists use a model that compares a woman’s ovaries to “average” ovaries to see whether her ovaries are aging faster or more slowly than average. They have discovered that the size of ovaries is directly related to the number of eggs they contain, which in turn is directly related to fertility. This discovery will significantly influence women’s decisions on when to have children.

The physician’s conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

(A) Women with smaller ovaries tend to have less success with assisted reproduction techniques, such as in vitro fertilization.

(B) Most women experience menopause around the age of 50, but their fertility starts to decline at the age of 37.

(C) Women who want to have children increasingly seek to delay doing so for many varied reasons.

(D) The test cannot tell women how likely they are to conceive in the years just prior to menopause.

(E) Every woman is born with several million eggs in her ovaries, which formed while she was a fetus; the number of eggs dwindles over her lifetime, until at menopause she has 1,000 or fewer.

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D.

Conclusion; the discovery will contribute to womens decisions on when to have children

Negate option D: The test can tell me the likelihood of having children 3 yrs before menopause. Now I know for sure how many more yrs I have left to have children. There's nothing I'm deciding on this again. And when precisely I'll choose to have my children will depend on every other factors that are still unknown to me. So this discovery will not necessarily contribute significantly to my decision regarding child birth

It looks like a tough one 😳

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Answer is C.

Here Author’s (Physician) conclusion is about women’s decision on when to have children. Not at all anything about ovaries or eggs or fertility. So C is the only option which the author could assume for making his conclusion.
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­+1 for (C)

Negate the choice "  Women who want to have children increasingly DO NOT seek to delay doing so for many varied reasons." then how will the conclusion "This discovery will significantly influence women’s decisions on when to have children." be useful ???

It's irrelevant to the conclusion!!!

 

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IMO C

(A) Women with smaller ovaries tend to have less success with assisted reproduction techniques, such as in vitro fertilization. - Strengthen

(B) Most women experience menopause around the age of 50, but their fertility starts to decline at the age of 37. - Irrelevant

(C) Women who want to have children increasingly seek to delay doing so for many varied reasons. - Correct (Assumption)

(D) The test cannot tell women how likely they are to conceive in the years just prior to menopause. -Incorrect

(E) Every woman is born with several million eggs in her ovaries, which formed while she was a fetus; the number of eggs dwindles over her lifetime, until at menopause she has 1,000 or fewer. -Out of scope
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Option C fits the bill perfectly fine in this case!

Bridges the gap and completes the argument when option C is added as a part of the argument.
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­The best assumption is (C).

Women who delay childbearing would benefit from knowing their menopause age to make informed decisions about their family planning.­
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­Physician: Scottish researchers have developed a test that allows them to predict at what age a woman will experience menopause. The scientists use a model that compares a woman’s ovaries to “average” ovaries to see whether her ovaries are aging faster or more slowly than average. They have discovered that the size of ovaries is directly related to the number of eggs they contain, which in turn is directly related to fertility. This discovery will significantly influence women’s decisions on when to have children.

The physician’s conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

(A) Women with smaller ovaries tend to have less success with assisted reproduction techniques, such as in vitro fertilization.

(B) Most women experience menopause around the age of 50, but their fertility starts to decline at the age of 37.

(C) Women who want to have children increasingly seek to delay doing so for many varied reasons.

(D) The test cannot tell women how likely they are to conceive in the years just prior to menopause.

(E) Every woman is born with several million eggs in her ovaries, which formed while she was a fetus; the number of eggs dwindles over her lifetime, until at menopause she has 1,000 or fewer.
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C. Women who want to have children increasingly seek to delay doing so for many varied reasons.

The conclusion is that predicting when menopause will occur will make a difference to women planning when to have children, which must mean that not knowing when menopause will occur makes it difficult to plan. Choice (A) is wrong because it doesn’t explain why predicting menopause will help anyone. Choice (B) just provides general information about menopause. Choice (C) may be right — it provides a reason that women would benefit from knowing when they will experience menopause (they’re delaying longer, so they need to know how long is too long to delay). Choice (D) isn’t relevant because the argument is about how accurately predicting the onset of menopause affects childbearing decisions, not how likely a woman is to conceive in the years immediately prior to menopause. Choice (E) is just information about ovaries, not an explanation of how this test will help make family planning decisions. Choice (C) is the best answer.­

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