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Which option distinguishes why Clarence failed to discover the problem in the following scenario?

Clarence is an FDA inspector who works at the seaport in Seattle inspecting fish imports before shipping to grocery stores. He was just notified that a shipment he inspected was identified as containing a foodborne illness.


Inspectors do not have access to bacteria testing on site.

Inspectors are only required to inspect one fish per box.

Inspectors are not qualified to diagnose a foodborne illness.

Inspectors only examine less than five percent of a shipment.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Option 4: Inspectors only examine less than five percent of a shipment.

Reason: If only a very small fraction of the shipment is checked, contaminated items can easily be missed — especially when contamination is uncommon or randomly distributed. The other options may make detection harder (no on‑site bacterial testing) or be inaccurate/less relevant (one fish per box is a narrower sampling issue; diagnosing illness isn't the inspector's role), but the low overall sampling rate most directly explains why Clarence failed to find the contaminated fish.