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Directions: Read the following excerpt adapted from the health textbook An Invitation to Health: Choosing to Change (p. 400) by Dianne Hales. Apply the knowledge you have gained about verbs from Chapter 19 to select the best answer for the following questions.
¹ An estimated 8 million adults in the United States have alcohol dependence.²Only a minority are undergoing treatment for alcohol-related problems.³Until recent years, the only options for professional alcohol treatment were, as one expert puts it, "intensive, extensive, and expensive," such as residential programs at hospitals or specialized treatment centers.⁴Today individuals with alcohol problems have chosen from a variety of approaches, including medication, behavioral therapy, or both.⁵Patients are treated with several kinds of programs.⁶Treating with one kind of therapy may work well for one person but may not work for another.⁷As research into the outcomes of alcohol treatment has grown, more attempts are made to match individuals to approaches tailored to their needs and more likely to help them overcome their alcohol problems.⁸A wide variety of treatments may offer help and hope to those with alcohol-related problems.
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Inverse Demand Function

Represents the price of a good as a function of its quantity demanded, showing the maximum price consumers are willing to pay for a given quantity of the good.

Price Elasticity

The measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in the price of that good, showing the sensitivity of quantity demanded to price changes.

Grapes

Edible berries, typically growing in clusters on a vine, used in making wine, eaten fresh, or dried to produce raisins.

Demand Function

A mathematical function showing the quantity of a good demanded at different prices.