Vignette #1 Carly Is an Overweight 21-Year-Old Who Is Committed

question 60

Multiple Choice

Vignette #1 Carly is an overweight 21-year-old who is committed to good health after taking a nutrition course. She realizes that being a savvy shopper is part of the process and decides to learn how to look more critically at food labels. She picks up two different boxes of ready-to-eat breakfast cereal and sees the food labels shown in Figure 1. Help Carly evaluate these two breakfast cereals.

Carly is concerned about a family history of high blood pressure. Which item listed on the food label is she likely to check?

• A) Vitamin C
• B) Iron
• C) Sodium
• D) Zinc
• E) fiber

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Definitions:

Computed

Calculated or processed using a computer or calculator.

Measurement Basis

The method or system used to determine the quantity, weight, or dimension of something as a basis for analysis or calculation.

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Data type where intervals between values are interpretable, but there is no true zero point.

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Variables that can take on an infinite number of values within a given range.