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Sarah described the following situation:

When one patient with a common cold takes a medicine and the other patient does not take any medicine, the person who takes medicine recovers faster than the person who does not take medicine.

Which of the following best describes the situation?

This is an example of both correlation and causation.

This is an example of neither correlation nor causation.

This is an example of correlation.

This is an example of causation.

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it is D i took the test

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The first patient received medicine which "caused"/resulted in his recovery while the second patient did not receive medicine which "caused"/resulted in his non-recovery.

The answer is D: "This is an example of causation."

(I also already took a quiz with this question and that was the correct answer.)

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