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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by formaldehyde.

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So much better dressed than casualdehyde.

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According to the passage, what is the relationship between ATSDR and the CDC?

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This question requires us to identify exactly how these two organizations are related.

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We wish it were something juicy like... the CDC is a jilted girlfriend out for revenge...

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But the real answer probably isn't quite that fun.

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Choices (B) and (C) both use the word "subsidiary."

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In case we forgot what the prefix, "sub" means, we just have to think about submarines,

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which travel "below" the water.

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If we forgot what the word "submarine" means....then we probably should try to get more sleep.

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Anyway, we know that subsidiary describes when one thing is lower than something else.

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Based on the information given by the passage, we know that neither the CDC nor the ATSDR

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control each other, however, so both (B) and (C) are incorrect.

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Choice (D) doesn't have it right either.

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The passage doesn't say anything about the CDC replacing the ATSDR, though from the way

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the passage makes the ATSDR sound, it might not be a bad idea.

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Answer (A) is right. In the first paragraph, the passage specifically describes the ATSDR

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and the CDC as sister agencies.

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This means that while the two are related, they aren't necessarily accountable to each other.

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It also means that they probably get in fights when one borrows the other's clothes without asking...

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