Which one of the following if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy between the two reports?
(A) The number of cases of rabies in wild animals other than raccoons has increased in the past 12 months.
(B) A significant proportion of the raccoon population succumbed to rabies in the year before last.
(C) The symptoms of distemper another disease to which raccoons are susceptible are usually identical to those of rabies.
(D) Since the outbreak of the epidemic, raccoons, which are mormally nocturnal have increasingly been seen during daylight hours
(E) The number of confirmed cases of rabid raccoons in neighboring cities has also decreased over the past year
Which one of the following if true most weakens the patent feviewers argument?
(A) The restrictions the patent reviewers cited pertain only to domesticated farm animals.
(B) The university’s application for a patent for the genetically engineered mouse was the first such patent application made by the university
(C) The patent reviewers had reached the same decision on all previous patent requess for new animal varieties.