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Extra Credit:  Earn 5 points extra credit if all answers are correct. According to Benford’s Law, a variety of different data sets include numbers with leading (first) digits that follow the distribution shown in the table below.  Table of data Leading Digit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Distribution of Benford’s Law 30.1% 17.6% 12.5% 9.7% 7.9% 6.7% 5.8% 5.1% 4.6%    When working for the Brooklyn District Attorney, investigator Robert Burton analyzed the leading digits of the amounts from 784 checks issued by seven suspect companies. The frequencies were found to be as shown in the table below.  Table of data Leading Digit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Frequency 0 9 0 70 485 189 8 23 0 If the observed frequencies are substantially different from the frequencies expected with Benford’s Law, the check amounts appear to result from fraud. Use a 0.05 significance level to test for goodness-of-fit with Benford’s Law. Does it appear that the checks are the result of fraud? What is the test statistic? [test] (round to 2 decimal places) What is the p-value? [pvalue] (round to 4 decimal places) Does it appear the checks are the result of fraud? [fraud] (type yes or no)

Which of the following options about disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is false?

The ages (in years) of the eight passengers on a bus are listed below.  Find each of the  requested numerical descriptions.  Round each answer to 1 decimal place. 9 1 29 11 22 46 40 35 Mean:  [mean] Median:  [median] Standard Deviation: [standard]

Aplastic anemia is primarily characterized by which underlying pathophysiological mechanism?  

Which of these are products of photosynthesis? Check all that apply.

Which of the following best describes the fluid found in the pleural space of an exudative effusion?

Malignant Myeloma (MM) is a plasma cell malignancy characterized by which of the following specific pathophysiologic findings?

Which of the following bacteria is most commonly implicated in the development of pelvic inflammatory disease?

Proteinuria, a hallmark finding in chronic kidney disease, is largely driven by damage to what physiologic structure within the kidney?

The complementary sequence to 5′ ACU GCC UAA 3′ is