Researchers Plan to Investigate a New Medication That May Reduce

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Short Answer

Researchers plan to investigate a new medication that may reduce blood pressure for individuals with higher than average blood pressure. 90 volunteers with higher than average blood pressure are solicited. Volunteers are randomly assign 100 mg of the medicine, 200 mg of the medicine, or a placebo. Blood pressure will be measured at the beginning and at the conclusion of the study.
-Identify the treatments.

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Definitions:

Compound Propositions

Statements formed by combining two or more propositions with logical connectives, such as "and," "or," "if...then."

Categorical Propositions

Statements in logic that relate two categories or classes of things in an affirmative or negative manner.

Disjunctive

Pertaining to a logical relation that holds between two statements if at least one of them is true, most commonly represented by the "or" connective.

Hypothetical

Pertaining to a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation or as a suggested point of argument.