The instructor's manual includes recommendations on approaches to meeting the chapters' learning objectives. It includes answers to review questions, thoughts on the discussion topics, and responses to the DSS Insights exercises. It also includes a large test bank of multiple choice and true/false problems is furnished. In preparing exams, these can supplement the review questions (which can be readily transformed into problems of the short answer or fill-in-the-blank variety) and the discussion topics (which can serve as essay problems).
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The average adult American male (20 years and older) is 195.5 pounds, according to the CDC. As with height, averages vary by racial and ethnic groups. For example, the average adult non-Hispanic white male weighs 199.2 pounds, and the average adult non-Hispanic black male weighs 199.4. The average adult Hispanic males weight 186.1 pounds. Among adult Mexican American males -- who are also included in the category of Hispanic -- the average weight is 185.4.