#10 - While the population of city X is approximately one-half that of city Y,

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

Except, Resolve the Paradox. The correct answer choice is (D).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[aziragoramo]

I had a hard time eliminating answer choice B.

does patients in hospital mean admitted? Or how would you eliminate this answer choice? Thank you.

[zoezoe6021]

Could you please explain why E is correct instead of D?

I made an assumption below

citizen #: X is 50, and Y is 100
patients #: X is 1, and Y is 4

I think D can explain this disproportion. Many patients from X go to Y to receive treatments.
E seems irrelevant. It's hard for me to draw a relationship between lifestyle stress and patient # without making extra assumptions.

[srusty]

Hi Zoe! So in this case, our stimulus does not specify that the the residents of city X are residents in city X hospitals, and the residents of city Y are residents only in city Y hospitals. So, answer choice (D) does not explain why less residents of City X go to the hospital, regardless of where they go. Answer choice (E) assumes a correlation between stress and health levels, which helps explain why City X would have less resident hospitalizations, regardless of where they go! Hope this helps.