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To test the effectiveness of a newly developed medicine, 300 patients suffering from a heart ailment were divided into two groups of 150 people each.
 
  One group was treated with the new medicine, while the other was treated with the existing medicine that is already widely used. In this scenario, identify the treatment group and the control grou

Question 2

Because resources are limited
 
  A) people must make choices.
  B) firms will be forced out of business.
  C) only the very wealthy can get everything they want.
  D) the availability of goods will be limited but the availability of services will not.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 30, 2018
Answer to Question 1

The treatment group refers to the group of patients who received the new medicine. The control group refers to the group of people who were not given the new medicine but were instead given the medicine that was already in large-scale use. The rationale behind this division is to compare the health changes of the two groups over a period of time. This experiment would test whether the new drug is better than the old drug.

Answer to Question 2

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