<prompt> A 23-year-old homeless man is found to have consumed alcohol adulterated with methanol. He is started on treatment effective for minimizing the toxicity to methanol. Which of the following is the most likely explanation for the benefit of this treatment?enhances renal excretion of methanolprevents biotransformation of methanolcombines to form a nontoxic polymerchanges the toxins volume of distribution  <response>: Ethanol is the standard antidote for methanol. It inhibits the conversion of methanol to its toxic metabolite, formic acid, by alcohol dehydrogenase. 