Zahara, age 3 months, is painfully thin. Her mother is too malnourished to produce enough breast milk, and the supply of formula is inadequate for bottle-feeding. Zahara is probably in danger of dying from
A) marasmus.
B) growth faltering.
C) kwashiorkor.
D) nonorganic failure to thrive.
Answer: A
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a. poor b. small c. two-parent d. religious
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a. extraneous b. control c. independent d. dependent
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a. controlling for rival hypotheses b. obtaining a stable baseline c. random assignment of subjects to treatments d. using reliable statistical techniques