In each of the following options the health prospects of a population are quoted under alternative intervention policies. The convention for summarizing the health prospects under each alternative is to quote the range of life-expectancies in parentheses (where the low value represents the prospects among the disadvantaged group while the high represents that for the advantaged group), followed by the population average life-expectancy (this is the population average across the two, dis- and ad- vantaged, groups in the population).

So that an alternative summarized as: (50,80) 75 would describe a population where the disadvantaged group has a life expectancy of 50, the advantaged group a life-expectancy of 80, and has a population-weighted average life expectancy of 75 years. Based on this, which of the following options would considered the fairest by a Rawlsian (someone employing the maximin theory of justice)

Multiple choice:

a. (73, 76) 74.5

b. Impossible to determine without correlation coefficient

c. (72, 72) 72

d. (60, 100) 78

e (71, 80) 75.5