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City Official: At City Hospital, uninsured patients tend to have shorter stays and fewer procedures performed than do insured patients, even though insured patients, on average, have slightly less serious medical problems at the time of admission to the hospital than uninsured patients have. Critics of the hospital have concluded that  the uninsured patients are mot receiving proper medical care . However,  this conclusion is almost certainly false . Careful investigation has recently shown two things: insured patients have much longer stays in the hospital than necessary, and they tend to have more procedures performed than are medically necessary.
In the city official’s argument, the two boldface portions play which of the following roles?

A. The first states the conclusion of the city official’s argument; the second provides support for that conclusion.
B. The first is used to support the conclusion of the city official’s argument; the second states that conclusion.
C. The first was used to support the conclusion drawn by hospital critics; the second states the position that the city official’s argument opposes.
D. The first was used to support the conclusion drawn by hospital critics; the second provides support for the conclusion of the city official’s argument.
E. The first states the position that the city official’s argument opposes; the second states the conclusion of the city official’s argument.

GMATBLACKBELT · Answer

A: first is most certainly not the conclusion of the city official's argument
B: Sounds Ok but not completely convincing.. keep for later.
C: No way. The second is the city official's argument. not a position that city official's argument opposes.
D: first part true. the second part is not supporting evidence... it is the main claim or conclusion here. Ul notice the second bold is the only actual claim made by the city official. All the rest are premises. 
E: Seems pretty good.

btwn B and E. I say E. While B is somewhat plausible, I don't think its guranteed. The city official may or may not use the first part as supporting evidence... he may use it to negate something, but I think its pretty weak.

E is much better: first is def. a position that the official opposes and the second is def. the official's conclusion.

buffdaddy · Answer

I think its E.

The first boldface is the conclusion drawn (position taken) by the Critics that the city official opposes in his argument. i.e he does not think that the uninsureds are not receiving proper care. On the contrary, he thinks that the insured are receiving too much unnecessary care. The city official therefore concludes in the second boldface that the critics are wrong.

abhi426 · Answer

E it is...

No doubt about A , B and C

D is wrong cos of 2 reasons
1 it doesn't support the conclusion by critics but itself is conclusion.. It has ben mentioned that crictics conclude... Second, the second BF doesn;t support the conclusion as City offcial crying to conclude that the crtitics are WRONG

pmenon · Answer

im getting E as well

rafiaiqbal · Answer

can somebody plz post the OA with explanation?

anairamitch1804 · Answer

"the uninsured patients are mot receiving proper medical care".

This is the conclusion of the hospital's critics.

"this conclusion is almost certainly false".
This is the conclusion of the city official.

A. The first states the conclusion of the city official's argument; the second provides support for that conclusion. You can eliminate this after the first sentence because the first is the conclusion of the critics not the city official.

B. The first is used to support the conclusion of the city official's argument; the second states that conclusion. Again you can eliminate this after the first sentence because the first is not used to support the city official's argument. The first is actually the critic's conclusion.

C. The first was used to support the conclusion drawn by hospital critics; the second states the position that the city official's argument opposes. The second states the city official's argument, not the argument he opposes. Eliminate this.

D. The first was used to support the conclusion drawn by hospital critics; the second provides support for the conclusion of the city official's argument. The first part is right, but the second certainly does not support the city official's argument because it IS the argument.

E. The first states the position that the city official's argument opposes; the second states the conclusion of the city official's argument. The first is the critic's conclusion and we know the city official opposes this position. Therefore, the first part of this is correct. The second part does in fact state the city official's argument. So this is correct too.

E it is

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