What speeds up your body's elimination of alcohol?
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A.
Eating a large meal
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B.
Drinking several cups of coffee
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C.
Taking a cold shower first
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D.
Nothing but time Correct
The answer is "Nothing but time"
The manual is direct: only time removes alcohol from your body. Learners who pick coffee carry over the movie-scene image of black coffee sobering someone up, which the manual specifically warns against.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Eating a large meal
Food slows how fast alcohol enters the bloodstream, not how fast it leaves. This answer reverses the food effect, applying an absorption rule to elimination.
B. Drinking several cups of coffee
Coffee is caffeine, which affects alertness but does not speed alcohol elimination. This answer follows the movie-scene image of black coffee as an emergency sobering trick.
C. Taking a cold shower first
A cold shower may briefly wake you up, but blood alcohol stays exactly where it was. This answer mistakes feeling more alert for actually being sober.
This question tests your knowledge of DUI & Impaired Driving in Illinois. Source: Illinois Rules of the Road, "Blood-Alcohol Concentration (BAC)/Presence of Drugs," p.48..
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