A major investigation of the safety of anesthetics used in surgery looked at over 850,000 operations performed at 34 hospitals across the USA.  The following are the death rates for 4 anesthetics:        Brand A – 1.7%     Brand B – 1.7%     Brand C – 3.4%     Brand D – 1.9% This situation is an example of Group of answer choices a census an observational study an experiment a systematic sample

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A major investigation of the safety of anesthetics used in surgery looked at over 850,000 operations performed at 34 hospitals across the USA.  The following are the death rates for 4 anesthetics:    

   Brand A – 1.7%     Brand B – 1.7%     Brand C – 3.4%     Brand D – 1.9%

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a census
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a systematic sample
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