Which of the Following Is an Accurate Generalization About Health

question 61

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an accurate generalization about health and sanitation at the Civil War battlefront?

• A) Neither the Union nor the Confederate government devoted much energy to sanitary measures in hospitals.
• B) Because of the large number of volunteer nurses in northern hospitals, army camps were free from typhoid, malaria, diarrhea, and dysentery.
• C) Although the ratio of disease to battle deaths was much better than during the Mexican War, two-thirds of deaths came from disease rather than battle wounds.
• D) Health conditions at the battlefront were so horrific that women were prohibited from coming within five miles of battlefields.
• E) None of these choices

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Median

The median is the middle value in a list of numbers sorted in ascending or descending order, splitting the dataset into two halves.

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A statistic that measures the dispersion or variance in a set of values, indicating how spread out the numbers are from the average.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a set of data, indicating the dataset's dispersion.

Median

The middle value in a set of numbers, which separates the higher half from the lower half of the data set.