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The next three questions are based on a study (part of the Women's Health Initiative) of healthy women volunteers. A total of 16,608 women were randomly assigned to take either placebo or a popular hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for eight years. The study was stopped after 5 years in part because the women on HRT had a higher rate of heart attacks than the placebo group.
-The rate of heart attacks for women on HRT was 29% higher than the rate in the placebo group. The baseline rate of heart attacks in the placebo group was 30 per 10,000 women. What was the rate of heart attacks in the HRT group?

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38.7 per 1...

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