Why Is Taking Excess Amounts of Fat-Soluble Vitamins More Likely

question 5

Multiple Choice

Why is taking excess amounts of fat-soluble vitamins more likely to cause toxicity than taking excesses of water-soluble vitamins?

• A) In general, excesses of fat-soluble vitamins cannot be excreted as easily as water-soluble vitamins.
• B) In general, water-soluble vitamins are more likely to be stored in the body than fat-soluble vitamins.
• C) The body has higher requirements for water-soluble vitamins.
• D) The body has higher requirements for fat-soluble vitamins.

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Rejecting

The act of not accepting or dismissing a statistical hypothesis based on the analysis of data.

Level of Significance

The threshold probability used in hypothesis testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood of occurrence of an event, expressed as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Z Statistic

A statistic that tells us how many standard deviations an element is from the mean. It is used in hypothesis testing.