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MATH 225N Week 2 quiz Winter 2019 – Chamberlain College of Nursing Week 2 quiz Question 1 A company has developed a wristband for monitoring blood sugar levels without requiring direct blood ... samples. It is interested in demonstrating the accuracy of the device for governmental approval and has decided to test the claim "The glucose level reported by the wristband is within 10% of a standard blood test result." Which of the following data collection processes would be appropriate? Select only one answer choice. That is correct! Choose a random sample of employees at lunchtime and measure their blood sugar using both the wristband and a standard blood test. Choose a random sample of people from the local area and random times throughout the day and measure their blood sugar using both the wristband and a standard blood test. Choose a random sample of people from the local area and random times and measure their blood sugar using the wristband. Choose another random sample of people and random times and measure their blood sugar using the standard blood test. Go to a hospital and have the doctors choose a random sample of patients to be tested at random times using both the wristband and the standard blood test. Question 2 A farmer divided his piece of land into 4 equivalent groups. The quality of the soil is the same across the 4 groups of land. He planted the same crop in all 4 groups of land and recorded the yield of the crop in all 4 groups for a 4 week period. Is the study observational or experimental? If it is an experiment, what is the controlled factor? The study is an observational study. The study is an experiment. The controlled factor is the 4 week observation period. The study is an experiment. The controlled factor is the land. The study is an experiment. The controlled factor is the growth of the crops. Question 3 To test the effectiveness of a drug proposed to relieve symptoms of headache, physicians included participants for a study. They gave the drug to one group and a drug with no therapeutic effect to another group. Which group receives the placebo? That is correct! the physicians the group that received the drug for headache the group that received the drug with no therapeutic effect all of the people in the study Question 4 Matthew has created a survey to test whether or not gender has any effect on political party associations. What is the explanatory variable in this situation? That is correct! the number of people surveyed political party associations gender none of the above Question 5 Is the statement below true or false? Continuous data are the type of quantitative data that is the result of measuring. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Question 24 Timothy wants to estimate the mean number of siblings for each student in his school. He records the number of siblings for each of 75 randomly selected students in the school. What is the statistic? That is correct! the specific number of siblings for each randomly selected student the 75 randomly selected students the mean number of siblings for the randomly selected students the mean number of siblings for all students in the school all the students in the school Question 25 In a psychological study aimed at testing a drug that reduces anxiety, the researcher grouped the participants into 2 groups and gave the anxiety-reduction pill to one group and an inert pill to another group. Which group receives the placebo? That is correct! the group that received the anxiety-reduction pill the psychological study all the people in the study the group that received the inert pill [Show More]
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