Directions: Read the paragraph below. Then select the number of the sentence that contains the main idea.   (1)In the seventeenth century, the Dutch became very fond of collecting tulip bulbs. (2)The finest bulbs gained high prices, and traders began making a profit in buying and selling them. (3)Eventually, people paid great fortunes for single tulip bulbs, kept them for a few weeks, and then sold them for even a higher price. (4)But finally, buyers realized that the bulbs were not worth the high prices demanded. (5)The great Tulip Mania came to a sudden end when prices fell greatly overnight. (6)Interest in the common Dutch tulip thus led to one of the first “crashes” in economic history.   The sentence that expresses the main idea is

Directions: Read the paragraph below. Then select the sentence that best expresses the implied main idea of the passage.   (1)In his book Anatomy of an Illness, writer Norman Cousins described his battle with a severe joint ailment. (2)Told that his doctors could do no more for him, he checked out of the hospital and into a pleasant hotel room. (3)He spent weeks watching Marx Brothers movies and other comedies. (4)He read the funniest authors he could find. (5)He joked and wisecracked with his visitors. (6)Cousins’ health improved so much that his doctors were amazed.   The sentence that best expresses the implied main idea is

Directions: Read the paragraph below. Then select the number of the sentence that contains the main idea.   (1)Few things are more boring than standing in line. (2)Luckily, some ways have been found to make waiting in line more bearable. (3)Airline personnel now use hand-held devices to look up customers’ information, scan or print boarding passes, and direct passengers to the appropriate area. (4)One New York bank pays five dollars to any customer who has waited more than five minutes. (5)Fast-food restaurants have found that timing the work of fast-food workers motivates crews to work more quickly, resulting in lines that move faster. (6)Dividing tasks so that one person takes an order while another begins to prepare it also gets food to customers more quickly. (7)In amusement parks, customers complain less when signs explain how long people can expect to wait. (8)Also, live entertainment such as a magician or juggler cheers people waiting in long lines.   The sentence that expresses the main idea is

A type of graph that that displays components of a whole.

Community Physician’s Clinic have received several complaints that patients have to wait an inordinate amount of time to see specialists in the clinic. The administrator asks the HIM manager to construct a graph that will show how long patients had to wait to see the gastroenterologist, endocrinologist, and dermatologist. She wanted the graph to include the number of patients who waited more than four weeks, three to four weeks, one to two weeks, less than one week, and the number who were able to have an appointment on the day they called for all three specialties. Which would be the best graph to show this information?

A type of diagram that is used to display frequency distributions for continuous numerical data (interval or ratio data).

A type of observation in which the researcher listens and sometimes talks with the research subject in as natural an environment as possible is called _____________. 

What scale of measurement is depicted in the “Lab Results” table below?  1 = HIV Positive 2 = HIV Negative 3 = HIV Inconclusive

The patient has been admitted with advanced cirrhosis. Which data would be most important for the nurse to report to the health care provider?

Autonomous persons, the argument goes, have a right to determine what may or many not be done to them—not just to their bodies and to their property, but to their private lives. This is a quote from chapter 4 (pp. 170 – 176). Which one of the following is correct?