You Are Babysitting a Child Who Drinks a Substance with an LD₅₀

question 92

Multiple Choice

You are babysitting a child who drinks a substance with an LD₅₀ of 1 mg/kg body weight.You are least likely to

• A) call the poison hotline.
• B) send the child to bed.
• C) take the child to an emergency room.
• D) call the child's parents.
• E) call a physician.

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Definitions:

Test Statistic

A statistic calculated from sample data, used to assess the plausibility of a hypothesis.

Sample Standard Deviation

The square root of the sample variance, measuring how spread out sample points are from the sample mean.

Observations

Refers to the individual data points or recorded measures of variables collected in a study.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter at a given confidence level.