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Throughout the semester you were provided with professional organization websites and research articles that provided additional resources and information to our weekly topics. Many of these you incorporated into your weekly assignments. Discuss how you used these in one or more of your assignments AND how you can incorporate it all (websites, research articles, and completed homework) into your professional career.  

Provide at least 2 food/diet/nutrition recommendations you would give to your patient if they had chronic kidney disease. 

Discuss the role that physical activity can play in diabetes.

Explain the 3 differing types of diabetes and one nutrition-related therapeutic measure for each.

This is a two part question. What nutrition-related lab tests should be reviewed if someone has kidney disease? Which tests would you monitor for someone with liver disease?

Discuss the role that alcohol, and in particular excessive alcohol, plays in the kidneys and kidney disease. 

Let A denote the event {a, b}, B the event {b, c, d}, and C the event {d}. The event  equals

A credit card company monitors cardholder transaction habits to detect any unusual activity. Suppose that the dollar value of unusual activity for a customer in a month follows a normal distribution with mean $250 and variance $391. What is the probability of $300 to $400 in unusual activity in a month?

A random experiment can result in one of the outcomes {a, b, c, d} with probabilities 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.1, respectively. Let A denote the event {a, b}, B the event {b, c, d}, and C the event {d}. Compute the

In a chemical plant, 24 holding tanks are used for final product storage. Four tanks are selected at random and without replacement. Suppose that six of the tanks contain material in which the viscosity exceeds the customer requirements. What is the probability that none of the tanks in the sample contains high-viscosity material? Round your answers to three decimal places (e.g. 0.123).