The drugs Telmisartan and Ramipril are designed to reduce high blood pressure. In a clinical trial...

The drugs Telmisartan and Ramipril are designed to reduce high blood pressure. In a clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of these drugs in preventing heart attacks, patients were divided into three groups. One group took a telmisartan tablet daily, another group a rampipril tablet daily, and the third group too both.

	Fatal Heart Attack	Nonfatal Heart Attack	No Heart Attack
Telmisartan only	598	431	7513
Rampipril only	603	400	7573
Both drugs	1821	1255	7458

a) Describe the observational units.

b) What is the variable collected?

c) Find the proportion of fatal heart attacks within each group.

d) Find the proportion of any heart attack (fatal or nonfatal) within each group.

e) Draw a bar chart to summarize this data.

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