Following the Increase in the Minimum Age for Drinking from Eighteen

question 57

Multiple Choice

Following the increase in the minimum age for drinking from eighteen to twenty-one in the United States,fatal nighttime accidents in the eighteen- and nineteen-year-old age groups __________.

• A)stayed the same
• B)increased
• C)decreased
• D)first decreased then increased to former levels

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