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Better Drug. Two drugs, A and B, were tested on a total of 2000 patients, half of whom wer...

Better Drug. Two drugs, A and B, were tested on a total of 2000 patients, half of whom were women and half of whom were men. Drug A was given to 900 patients, and Drug B to 1100 patients. The results appear in the table below.

 

Women

Men

Drug A

5 of 100 cured

400 of 800 cured

Drug B

101 of 900 cured

196 of 200 cured

a. Give numerical evidence to support the claim that Drug B is more effective than Drug A.


b. Give numerical evidence to support the claim that Drug A is more effective than Drug B.


c. Which claim do you think makes more sense? Why?

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