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You are working with a patient who has been prescribed a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor to manage their blood glucose levels. You advise them that they may experience ________.

You are chatting with a fellow nurse about the wide range of indications for Penicillamine. He tells you that it can be used to treat the following four conditions. You correct him by stating that _______ is not one of the indications.

All of the following are true statements regarding gram-negative bacteria EXCEPT:

A patient has “failed” Step 1 of the Dexamethasone Suppression Test and their levels of cortisol remain high after administration of this glucocorticoid. From this, you can conclude which of the following? 

For flights from a particular airport in January, there is a 30 percent chance of a flight being delayed because of icy weather. If a flight is delayed because of icy weather, there is a 10 percent chance the flight will also be delayed because of a mechanical problem. If a flight is not delayed because of icy weather, there is a 5 percent chance that it will be delayed because of a mechanical problem. If one flight is selected at random from the airport in January, what is the probability that the flight selected will have at least one of the two types of delays? (Round to the thousandths)

Two friends, Andy and Bob, participate in a game of bowling every week. From past experiences, it is known that both friends’ scores are approximately normally distributed, where Andy has a mean score of 150 with a standard deviation of 30, and Bob has a mean score of 165 with a standard deviation of 15. Assuming that their scores are independent, which of the following values is closest to the probability that Andy will have a greater score than Bob in a single game?

Ali surveyed 200 students at a school and recorded the eye color and the gender of each student. Of the 80 male students who were surveyed, 60 had brown eyes. If eye color and gender are independent, how many female students surveyed would be expected to have brown eyes?

Events D and E are independent, with P( D ) = 0.6 and P( D and E ) = 0.18. Which of the following is true?

Two college roommates have each committed to donating to charity each week for the next year. The roommates’ weekly incomes are independent of each other. Suppose the amount donated in a week by one roommate is approximately normal with mean $30 and standard deviation $10, and the amount donated in a week by the other roommate is approximately normal with mean $60 and standard deviation $20. Which of the following is closest to the expected number of weeks in a 52-week year that their combined donation will exceed $120 ?

Each of the faces of a fair six-sided number cube is numbered with one of the numbers 1 through 6, with a different number appearing on each face. Two such number cubes will be tossed, and the sum of the numbers appearing on the faces that land up will be recorded. What is the probability that the sum will be 4, given that the sum is less than or equal to 6 ?