SAT question answer

[evank15]

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They dont really care how you answer so long as you provide good example and have good essay structure/grammer

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This is the truth.

[evank15]

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The reasonable course of action, by definition, must have a higher EV.

The second part of the statement would be justification for not taking the reasonable course of action.

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You obviously have not read enough of DS and MM.

[guesswest]

He's saying the you definitionally have to go for the second choice. If b is more reasonable than a, a is more unreasonable than b.

The question is probably intended as something like 'is it sometimes better to take risks than follow a risk-minimizing strategy'. And the answer to that is yes.