Question #431

Confusing language.

Started by DesHarp · started 2024-05-21 05:20 · last activity 2024-05-21 22:00 · 1 reply

The question stem mentions that they will die with 6 months of contracting the disease but the answer explanation says they are not born with the disease. So reasonably I understood that to mean that they could catch the disease some time after birth meaning that they would not necessarily die within 6 months if they do not immediately contract the disease. That is why I got the answer wrong because it said that they WILL die within 6 months.

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  1. Emil-Kunkin · 2024-05-21 22:00

    This is where we need to carefully tie the answer back to what the passage said. The passage said that many pythons hatched in Africa ARE AFFLICTED, and that a few hatched in North America HAVE THIS DISEASE. That is to say that they currently have the disease and thus are guaranteed to die within six months of writing. While you're right about those that may catch it in the future, the passage tells us that some of the snakes in question have the disease now.

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