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when 50 people took part in a medical study to test drug a, 1 of them felt better. another medical study was conducted with a similar drug, called drug b. experimental tests showed that 2 out of 50 people felt better after taking drug b. the manufacturer of drug b advertises that its "new and improved" drug is "twice as effective as drug a."
why is this claim misleading

Twelve friends shared 8 small pizzas equally. how many pizzas did each person get?

Acircular city park has a sidewalk directly through the middle that is 111 - feet long. if each bag of fertilizer covers 50 square feet, then determine how many bags of fertilizers the parks and recreation department needs to use to cover the circular park. ignore all the sidewalks around and through the park.

An annual marathon covers a route that has a distance of approximately 26 miles. winning times for this marathon are all over 2 hours. the following data are the minutes over 2 hours for the winning male runners over two periods of 20 years each. earlier period 14 12 15 22 13 10 19 13 9 14 20 18 16 20 23 12 18 17 6 13 recent period 7 11 7 14 8 9 11 14 8 7 9 8 7 9 9 9 9 8 10 8 (a) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the earlier period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks. for more details, view how to split a stem.) minutes beyond 2 hours earlier period 0 1 2 (b) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the recent period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks.) minutes beyond 2 hours recent period (c) compare the two distributions. how many times under 15 minutes are in each distribution