Confusing : Two courses of antibiotic treatment are currentl

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Can someone first tell me what is the Q asking ?

Strengthen or assumption ?

Strengthen I suppose ?


Two courses of antibiotic treatment are currently available for certain respiratory infections. The first is administered over two months; the second contains the same amount of antibiotics but is condensed to a one-month period. A medical study found that patients who opted for the intensive course experienced a more complete convalescence with fewer complications than did those who took the two-month treatment. The recommendation that the two-month treatment be eliminated, in accordance with this finding, would be deemed most sound if it could be shown that ___________________.


Which of the following best completes the passage?
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A
patients who took intensive antibiotics courses for vascular inflammation reported better results than those who opted for slower treatment.

B
an intensive course of antibiotic treatment can sometimes lead to complications in patients with weaker immune systems

C
the pre-treatment difference, medically speaking, between those patients who opted for the intensive course and those who chose the longer course is negligible.

D
patients who opted for the non-intensive course of treatment did so because they had experienced prior complications with antibiotic treatment.

E
the antibiotic delivery system differs significantly between the one-month and two-month courses of treatment.
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by aditya8062 » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:51 pm
well all i feel is that u have to give a simple reason as why some thing is better than the other thing .i find C is best here

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by Zarrolou » Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:11 am
IMO C

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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:35 am
Assumption questions typically feature the word "assume" or "assumption."
This feels more like a Strengthen the Argument question.

I'd opt for answer choice C as well.
This helps to eliminate the possibility that there were major differences between the patients in the two groups studied.

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by himu » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:22 pm
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the pre-treatment difference, medically speaking, between those patients who opted for the intensive course and those who chose the longer course is negligible.
This is the credited response. Any difference in results when comparing two different treatments will be invalid unless the two treatment populations were the same to begin with: it would make far less sense to eliminate the two-month course if it had a much higher success rate in one kind of patient but not in others.

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