Why Are Small Children at Greater Risk for Iron Toxicity

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Multiple Choice

Why are small children at greater risk for iron toxicity?

• A) They are smaller in size.
• B) They are more likely to think iron pills are candy.
• C) They are unable to metabolize iron at the same rate as adults.
• D) They have a smaller surface-to-weight ratio.

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Definitions:

Distribution

Describes how values are spread or distributed across various levels or intervals in a dataset.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the set deviate from the mean.

Distribution

Describes the frequency or probability of all possible outcomes of a random variable.

Box Plots

Box plots, also known as box-and-whisker plots, are graphical representations used in descriptive statistics that show the distribution, central value, and variability of a dataset through quartiles, highlighting median, quartiles, and outliers in the data.