Johnson Is Hired by a Company to See If a New

question 97

Multiple Choice

Johnson is hired by a company to see if a new product, Topocal, will cause hair to grow on the heads of bald men. He recruits one thousand bald men and randomly divides them into two groups: Five hundred men (group A) rub Topocal on their scalps each day; the other five hundred (group B) rub a standard skin lotion on their scalps each day. After two months, Johnson checks to see what the results have been. He finds that there has been hair growth in 7 percent of group A and in 2 percent of group B.What is the sample?

• A)bald men in general
• B)the bald men who participated in the study
• C)the men in group A
• D)the men in group B

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