QUESTION TEXT: In the past decade, a decreasing percentage…
QUESTION TYPE: Sufficient Assumption
CONCLUSION: Less money is spent on effective treatments.
REASONING: A smaller percentage of money is spent on effective treatments.
ANALYSIS: The evidence is about the percentage (e.g. 55%) while the conclusion is about the amount ($5,000,000). They’re two very different things.
We need something that proves a smaller amount of money is spend on effective treatments.
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- It doesn’t really matter if those varieties have become less common. We can spend more money on something even if it is less common.
- This doesn’t affect either the amount of money or the percentage of money spent on non-standard treatments. It only affects how many treatments we could pay for with a given amount of money.
- Total medical expenditures are irrelevant. We’re making a claim about the amount of money spend on effective treatments for disease X.
- This affects percentage. We need information about the amount of money.
- CORRECT. If effective treatments get a smaller percentage of a smaller amount of money then the amount spent on them must have declined.
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