Suppose you want to test the effectiveness of a certain drug for treating a disease—that is, you want to see if using the drug is better the standard treatment. you select 150 patients to give the drug, and 150 patients to give the standard treatment. name at least five factors you should control for in your samples to make the test more random

Step-by-step explanation:

There are so many factors to be considered in comparing two samples.

Here given that  you want to test the effectiveness of a certain drug for treating a disease—that is, you want to see if using the drug is better the standard treatment.

To get accurate results, the following factors also should be considered

1) Age group of the two groups must be equal because sometimes age causes prone to diseases.

2) Food habits of the two groups -- certain food may enhance the chance of getting disease.  So this should be taken into consideration

3) Family history about the parents already having that disease

4) Exercise and lifestyles of the groups

5) Environment, climate, etc of the two groups

24

step-by-step explanation:

if it takes 8 pounds to make 12 divide 12 by 8 and you get 1.5, 1.5 x 16 = 24

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