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Which surgery do you suggest?

Which surgery do you suggest?

Imagine someone is suffering from a critical disease.
You accompany the patient to the hospital and meet up a doctor who suggests an immediate operation.
You need to help the patient decide to undergo surgery based on following statistics on the operation's success.
Operation A - 100 patients who have this operation A, ninety are alive after five years.
Operation B - 100 patients who have this operation B, ten are dead after five years.
The patient needs to go for this surgery.
Which operation will you suggest to the patient?
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