A Pharmaceutical Company Wishes to Study a Possible New Headache

question 20

Multiple Choice

A pharmaceutical company wishes to study a possible new headache medicine. They are doing human trials with 1000 volunteers who experience frequent headaches. The researchers will need to ____________.

• A)have 10 volunteers in the control group
• B)put all women in the control group and all men in the experimental group
• C)control for the type of headache-stress, migraine, or other causes
• D)divide the groups by level of health
• E)give all 1000 volunteers the same amount of the new medication

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