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by aditya8062 » Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:18 pm
Forty-five percent of all blood donated in the United States is type O. Type O blood is essential for emergencies where there is no time for determining the blood type of victims because type O blood can be used for everyone. Type O blood is unique in that it is compatible with blood of all types: any recipient, regardless of blood type, can be given it. But precisely because of this special usefulness, type O blood is chronically in short supply.



If the statement in the passage above are true, which of the following must also be true?

a) The special usefulness of type O blood lies in the fact that it matches the blood type of most people.

b) Supplies of type O blood are continuously so low that type O blood is nuavailable for emergencies, where its usefulness would be greates.

c) Forty-five percent of the total population of the United State has type O blood, which makes type O the most common blood type.

d) Any decision to give blood of any type other than O needs to be based on knowledge of the recipient's blood type.

e) Type O blood is the only blood that cannot be typed as fast as needed in emergencies
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by GMATGuruNY » Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:44 pm
aditya8062 wrote:Forty-five percent of all blood donated in the United States is type O. Type O blood is essential for emergencies where there is no time for determining the blood type of victims because type O blood can be used for everyone. Type O blood is unique in that it is compatible with blood of all types: any recipient, regardless of blood type, can be given it. But precisely because of this special usefulness, type O blood is chronically in short supply.



If the statement in the passage above are true, which of the following must also be true?

a) The special usefulness of type O blood lies in the fact that it matches the blood type of most people.

b) Supplies of type O blood are continuously so low that type O blood is nuavailable for emergencies, where its usefulness would be greates.

c) Forty-five percent of the total population of the United State has type O blood, which makes type O the most common blood type.

d) Any decision to give blood of any type other than O needs to be based on knowledge of the recipient's blood type.

e) Type O blood is the only blood that cannot be typed as fast as needed in emergencies
Type O blood is UNIQUE in that...any recipient, REGARDLESS of blood type, can be given it.
In other words, Type O is the ONLY BLOOD TYPE that can be given WITHOUT REGARD to the blood type of the recipient.
Thus, when ANY OTHER BLOOD TYPE IS GIVEN, we must REGARD the blood type of the recipient.
This supports answer choice D:
Any decision to give blood of any type other than O needs to be based on knowledge of the recipient's blood type.

The correct answer is D.
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by aditya8062 » Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:52 pm
good day guru
thanks for your reply .
i do agree the stress that u have put on "unique" . i had missed this one for i thought that nowhere in the passage it is mentioned that type O is the only blood that does not require matching but i do understand now that "unique" is doing that job

but my second doubt is :what makes A a bad option ?
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by GMATGuruNY » Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:10 pm
aditya8062 wrote:good day guru
thanks for your reply .
i do agree the stress that u have put on "unique" . i had missed this one for i thought that nowhere in the passage it is mentioned that type O is the only blood that does not require matching but i do understand now that "unique" is doing that job

but my second doubt is :what makes A a bad option ?
The special usefulness of type O blood lies in the fact that it MATCHES the blood type of most people.
The passage does not state that most people HAVE type O blood.
Rather, it states that type O blood is unique in that it can be given REGARDLESS of the blood type of the recipient.
In other words, the special usefulness of type O blood lies in the fact that it DOESN'T HAVE TO MATCH the blood type of the recipient -- quite the opposite of answer choice A.
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