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question 16

Multiple Choice

While preparing an aerosol bronchodilator for a patient,you place 0.5 ml of a 1% drug solution into a small-volume nebulizer.If you add 5 ml of saline instead of 2 ml of saline,the delivered dose of drug will:

• A)Increase
• B)Decrease
• C)Remain the same
• D)Weaken the drug response

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Definitions:

Unit Increase

A measure reflecting the change or increment in a particular variable by a single unit.

Holding Constant

A technique in statistical analysis where specific variables are kept unchanged in order to isolate the effects of other variables.

Polynomial Model

A regression model in which the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable is modeled as an nth degree polynomial.

Predictor Variable

A variable that is used in statistical models to predict the outcome of a response variable.