A bride-to-be is enjoying a manicure and a facial before her hair is styled for the wedding. What organ system is being pampered?  

A.  lymphatic system
B.  integumentary system
C.  endocrine system
D.  digestive system

Clarify Question
What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?

Gather Content
What do you already know about the skin, hair, and nails? What other information is related to the question?

Choose Answer
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?

Reflect on Process
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?


B.  integumentary system

Clarify Question
What is the key concept addressed by the question?
    `    · This question is asking you to identify the body system that includes the hair, skin, and nails.
What type of thinking is required?
        · Apply level:
            o You are being asked to take what you already know and use, or apply, it to the identification of the system that includes the hair, skin, and nails.

Gather Content
What do you already know about the skin, hair, and nails? What other information is related to the question?
        · The hair, skin, and nails all contain living and nonliving tissue.
        · The body covering consists of the hair, skin, and nails.

Choose Answer
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
        · The digestive system includes the stomach, intestine, pancreas, and liver, but not the skin, nails, or hair.
        · The lymphatic system includes vessels, nodes, the spleen, and the thymus, but not the skin, hair, or nails.
        · The endocrine system includes the pineal gland, the pituitary gland, and other glands, but not the hair, skin, or nails.
        · The integumentary system is the system that contains the hair, skin, and nails.

Reflect on Process
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?
        · Apply level:
            o Answering this question correctly depended on your ability to use the hair, skin, and nails in a new situation. If you got an incorrect answer, did you remember that these structures are components of the integumentary system? Did you have trouble extending these structures to determine the correct answer? 

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