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Information and Ideas practice question

A pharmacist claims that the new packaging for a medicine, with large print and a colour-coded lid, has reduced the number of patients taking the wrong dose.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?

  1. A. Reports of wrong doses of the medicine fell from 40 a month to 8 a month after the new packaging was introduced, with no change in how many patients took it.Correct
  2. B. The new packaging costs more to produce.
  3. C. Patients say the new packaging looks attractive.
  4. D. The medicine is prescribed to older patients.

Answer: A. Reports of wrong doses of the medicine fell from 40 a month to 8 a month after the new packaging was introduced, with no change in how many patients took it.

Fewer wrong doses, same number of patients.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. The new packaging costs more to produce.
Cost is not dosing.
C. Patients say the new packaging looks attractive.
Looks are not dosing.
D. The medicine is prescribed to older patients.
Who takes it is not dosing.

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