document.write( "Question 1208744: It is estimated that 30 percent of all adults in the United States are obese and that 3 percent suffer
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\n" ); document.write( "Ignore the pompous (and incorrect) comment from tutor @ikleyn saying that the response from the other tutor is \"INCORRECT/IRRELEVANT\" (my quotation marks).

\n" ); document.write( "If a car is either red or black, then that \"either - or\" obviously means one or the other and not both. But if a car is either red or a Ford, then it can be both.

\n" ); document.write( "Being obese and suffering from diabetes are NOT two disjoint things; a person CAN be both.

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