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Greg says he usually eats 1 medium carrot every day to ensure that he is consuming enough vitamin A. Today, he didn’t eat any carrots and is worried there is not enough vitamin A in his body. What would you say to Greg?

Kathy was recently given a moderate calories restricted diet from her physician and told to increase her exercise to help her lose 25 pounds.  Kathy tells you the exercise will NOT help her lose weight and is not going to follow her physician’s advice.  What is the best response to Kathy?

What vitamin is involved intensively in amino acid metabolism?

What is the most likely reason for a person to have abnormally high blood ammonia levels?

In an adult who gains 20 pounds of excess body weight, about how much of this is lean tissue?

Which measurement would be most ideal to determine an overweight individual’s health risk?

The following data consists of WAT (word aptitude test) scores for a group of 25 young women students enrolled at a local college.   146.4 148.8 150.2 151.1 152.5 147.4 149.2 150.3 151.3 152.9 147.8 149.5 150.5 151.6 153.4 148.3 148.6 149.7 149.9 150.8 150.9 151.8 152.2 153.9 154.8                               Put the data in your calculator to answer the following questions. What is the IQR for this data?

Euparkeria is a rare disease. The symptoms are not clear at first, but grow worse as time progresses. There is a test which detects Euparkeria early, and allows treatment to start before the symptoms become serious. Note that the symbol ‘Pos’ indicates a positive result on the test. The symbol E indicates that the patient has Euparkeria. The symbol indicates that the patient does not have Euparkeria. Note: Ec is “E complement”               Pr (Pos| E) = .920                      Pr (E) = .0456               Pr (Pos| Ec) = .028                  Note: Pr (E) + Pr (Ec) =1               What is Pr (Pos Ո E)? 

A group of students has been trained to increase their score on the math segment of the S.A.T.  For the general population, S.A.T.-Math scores are distributed N (505,105). It is reasonable to assume that the shape of the distribution is unchanged by training effects, but is shifted, hopefully to the right. It follows that we assume that σ=105. For a random sample, of size n = 100 the sample mean  S.A.T.-math score is 529.   Compute a 99% confidence interval for µ, the mean score of the population of trained students.

In 2007 the scores on the College Aptitude Test (C. A. T.) were distributed normally with mean 500 and standard deviation 100, briefly N (500, 100)  Find the Z score for a CAT score of 625.