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BONUS Suppose you go to the grocery store to buy some cat litter for you cat, since you ran out. You always get the same kind: The Purina Tidy Cats Lightweight 24/7 Performance cat litter, which is supposed to contain 17 pounds of cat litter. In reality, the amount of litter in a given container follows an approximately normal distribution with a mean of 17 pounds and a standard deviation of 0.15 pounds. What is the probability that you choose a container that has 17.2 pounds or more?

Increasing the energy of an incident electron will result in the production of an x-ray photon with

If the half-value layer of diagnostic radiographic equipment is too low, it may be corrected by

Beam filtration affects patient dose by

When patient SID or SOD increases,

The most common diagnostic x-ray beam filter material is

The ____ the atomic number of the irradiated material, the ____ the number of photoelectric absorption interactions that occur.

A radiograph is produced using 25 mAs at 80 kVp. To cut the patient exposure in half, how much should the kVp be increased?

(Continued) A phycologist is interested in determining the proportion of algae samples from a local rivulet that belonged to a particular phylum. A random sample of 50 alga was obtained and each alga was categorized as either being cyanobacteria or not. It was found that 38 were, in fact, cyanobacteria. The standard error of the sample proportion, i.e.

An x-ray exposure of 100 mR is recorded at a distance of 40 inches. To reduce the exposure to 25 mR, to what will the distance need to be changed?