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You began membership in a new health and fitness club which has access to a dietician and personal trainer. they you develop a special eight-week diet and exercise program. the data in the following table represents your weight, w, as a function of time, t, over an eight-week period. time (weeks) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 weight (lb) 150 144 143 141 140 137 137 132 129 your weight decreases during each of the first five weeks of the program. determine the actual change in weight over the first five weeks of the program by subtracting your initial weight from your weight at the end of the first five weeks. what is the sign of your answer? what is the significance of this sign? a. 137-150 = -13 lb; a change in weight is negative because the weight decreases. b. 137-150 = 13 lb; a change in weight is positive because the weight decreases. c. 150-137 = -13 lb; a change in weight is negative because the weight increases. d. 150-137 = 13 lb; a change in weight is positive because the weight increases.

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A35-year-old woman comes to the ed complaining of chest pressure. she has had such episodes intermittently over the last 5 years, usually when sleeping, but over the last year she has had more frequent severe symptoms that are occasionally associated with severe migraine headaches. the pain is midsternal and is described as pressure that extends as a band around her chest. the ed physician is initially dubious that the pain is cardiac in origin, because the woman has no coronary disease risk factors. an ecg, however, shows 2mm st-segment elevation and inverted t waves in leads v1 through v5 and 1mm st-segment depression in leads ii, iii, and avf. before the cardiologist arrives in the ed, the patient's ecg has returned to normal. this repeat normal ecg is obtained after the administration of aspirin, nitroglycerin, morphine, and oxygen. which of the following is most likely for these findings? - diffuse intimal thickening with focal areas of atherosclerotic narrowing - intermittent thrombus formation and lysis in the left anterior descending artery - intermittent thrombus formation and lysis in the right coronary artery - plaque rupture and thrombus formation in the left anterior descending artery - transiently increased coronary vascular tone in the right coronary artery