John Participates in a Drinking Game at a Friend's Weekend

question 70

Multiple Choice

 John participates in a drinking game at a friend's weekend party and after a while finds himself vomiting uncontrollably. Which of the following statements is the best description of John's situation?

• A) There is nothing to worry about. Everybody vomits when they drink alcohol at parties.
• B) John's blood-brain barrier must be malfunctioning, as this normally would prevent the initiation of vomiting.
• C) John has ingested a dangerous amount of alcohol, and his area postrema has initiated vomiting in order to remove remaining alcohol from his stomach.
• D) John must have ingested other drugs in addition to alcohol, because alcohol alone will not initiate vomiting.

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Definitions:

Median

The central number in a series that divides the upper half from the bottom half.

StdDev

A rephrased term for standard deviation, indicating the degree to which individual data points in a set diverge from the mean value.

Mean

A mathematical average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them all together and dividing by the number of numbers.

Median

In an arranged sequence of values, the median is the number situated in the middle, thus separating the collection of numbers into two segments.