A company wants to study the effects a new drug has on alleviating pain.  Some patients at doctor’s office are selected to be in the study.  The patients will be randomly assigned to take the new drug or the old drug.  They will be monitored to see when the pain goes away. What is the population?      A. Patients       B. Which Drug       C. Control Group       D. How long it takes the pain to go away

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A company wants to study the effects a new drug has on alleviating pain.  Some patients at doctor’s office are selected to be in the study.  The patients will be randomly assigned to take the new drug or the old drug.  They will be monitored to see when the pain goes away.

What is the population?

    
A. Patients
     
B. Which Drug
     
C. Control Group
     
D. How long it takes the pain to go away

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A population is a umiverse of all possible data for a specified object.

And, sample is a selection of observation from people.

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