Pregnancy Affects a Woman's Oxygenation Needs Primarily Because Of

question 21

Multiple Choice

Pregnancy affects a woman's oxygenation needs primarily because of:

• A) The increased metabolic demands required to support the fetus
• B) The increased tendency to develop anemia as a result of low iron reserves
• C) The decreased ability to engage in the physical exercise required to promote circulation
• D) The decreased lung capacity resulting from the pressure of the uterus on the diaphragm

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree to which a dataset's values vary or are dispersed, showing the extent of deviation from the average.

Normal Distribution

A distribution of probabilities that is even on both sides of the mean, illustrating that values near the mean happen more often than values at a greater distance from the mean.

Weibull Distribution

A continuous probability distribution used widely in reliability engineering and failure analysis, which can model various types of data including life data and failure times.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood that a variable will take one of two independent values under a given set of parameters or assumptions.