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A research company wants to test the claim that a new multivitamin helps to improve short term memory. State the objective of the experiment, suggest a population, determine the experimental and control groups, and describe a sample procedure.

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Answer:

I would think that you would want to have the multivitamin and then a placebo, then conduct an experiment testing the results of the multivitamin and observe the effects on both groups taking the medicine.

Explanation:

your control group would be the placebo and your experimental group would be the multivitamin...

User Koushik Goswami
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Answer with explanation:

Objective of the experiment:

The Multivitamin made by research company is beneficial or not for abolishing short term memory.

Population

The population can be chosen from the largest city hospital where people are suffering from short term memory loss.

Suppose 100 people are suffering from short term memory loss.

Experimental and control group

Suppose 40 people are being tested that is in experimental group and 60 people are in Control group.

Sample Procedure

After selecting 40 people in the experimental group , and then providing them Multivitamin for few days ,and then checking whether it is helping them to attain their memory or not is the procedure.

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