Use this scenario to answer questions 1-5. Carly is a 14 year old soccer prodigy. She is in the 9th grade and is playing on the varsity team. She is so good that other teams scout her specifically and she has high hopes of playing professionally when she graduates from high school. One of the reasons that Carly is so good is that she isn’t afraid to head the ball like many of the other girls on her team, and can do it with good accuracy. She usually does it several times in a game. This day, however, was different. Carly jumped up to head a corner kick into the net – the crowd went wild. When Carly landed, she took about 3 staggering steps and fell to the ground, laying still. The athletic trainers immediately ran to the field and after a couple of minutes, Carly was escorted to the sidelines. What is Carly’s most likely diagnosis?

Pascal’s injury is quite severe. Because of the shearing of his axons (disrupting neurological communication), his brain is now swelling substantially. This is a major concern as scans reveal that the following effect is already emerging:

Use the following scenario to answer questions 33-37: Pascal is a 5 year old boy who fell through a screen of a second-floor window on to the concrete below. There was no initial loss of consciousness, but his parents rushed him to the ER. Pascal was drowsy but responsive  and able to move all limbs voluntarily. X-rays for spinal injury were normal.  Approximately 60 minutes after his arrival to the ER, Pascal became unresponsive. He was intubated and placed on a ventilator. CT scan of the head revealed a diffuse axonal injury. What is a diffuse axonal injury?  

Carly has been taken from the field and is sitting in a quiet training room off the gym where she underwent “concussion protocol” by the training staff to make a diagnosis. They are comparing her current functioning to the baseline that they established pre-season. This assessment is called:

Xena’s baby will most likely receive all of the following treatments, EXCEPT:

Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is transmitted by                                               .

In class, we said that parents who choose not to vaccinate their children: A) Are making individual risk decisions for their children B) Are “Free riding” on others who do get vaccinations C) Are putting society’s herd immunity at risk D) A & B E) B &C

Medicine is to Public Health as:   A) Individual is to Population B) Curative is to Preventive C) Immunization is to Healing D) Direct Communication is to Indirect Communication E) A & B F) C & D

Communication affects politics at the everyday level by:  A) Influencing our taken-for-granted assumptions  B)  Helping to form our sense of self and what counts as knowledge C) Allowing us to express our beliefs D) All of the above

4 (12 pts). A line passes through the points (2, 7) and (5, 1). (a) Find the slope. (b) Find the equation of the line (with result in slope-intercept form).   5 (12 pts). A company bought some equipment at the cost of $13000. After 9 years, it will be worth an estimated $2000. Assume the depreciation is linear.  (a) Find the linear function for the depreciation. (b) Find the value of the equipment after 6 years.