A Pharmaceutical Company Wishes to Study a Possible New Headache

question 7

Multiple Choice

A pharmaceutical company wishes to study a possible new headache medicine.They are doing human trials with 1,000 volunteers who experience frequent headaches.The researchers will need to ________.

• A)give all 1,000 volunteers the same amount of the new medication
• 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)have 10 volunteers in the control group

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Adam Smith

was an 18th-century Scottish economist and philosopher, best known for his works on the principles of free market economies.

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