The Patient States That He Uses a Large Amount of Table

question 5

Multiple Choice

The patient states that he uses a large amount of table sugar (sucrose) in his foods because it gives him quick energy. The nurse explains that sucrose will:

• A) quickly raise the blood sugar, and the level drops slowly.
• B) not raise the blood sugar as quickly as a protein source will.
• C) cause a hunger and energy lag because of the rapid fall of the blood sugar.
• D) also act as a good support to the digestion of fiber.

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Definitions:

Probability

The measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, represented as a number between 0 and 1.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample, used to make inferences about a population parameter.

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a statistical measure of the dispersion or variance within a dataset, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.

Normal Distribution

A statistical distribution that is symmetric around its mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.