A Package Insert for a Medication States That "This Medicine

question 45

Essay

A package insert for a medication states that "this medicine is a beta receptor stimulant used to treat symptoms of asthma, emphysema and other breathing conditions.Possible side effects include fast heart rate, nervousness, tremors or nausea." Why would these symptoms be expected?

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Definitions:

Z-Score

Scores for the standard normal distribution measured in standard deviation units.

Standard Normal Distribution

The standard normal distribution is a special case of the normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in z-tests.

Mean

To determine the arithmetic average, one sums up every number in the collection and divides by the number of elements in the collection.

Standard Deviation

An indicator that measures how much a set of data points spread out or diverge.