According to the Text: "Many Economists Link the Severity of the Great

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Essay

According to the text: "many economists link the severity of the Great Depression of the 1930s to the breakdown in the banking system's ability to provide financial services." The beginning of the Great Depression also coincided with a stock market crash. Why might the problems of the banking system have been more damaging to the economy than the problems on the stock market?

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Definitions:

Continuous Uniform Probability Distribution

A type of probability distribution where all outcomes in a continuous range are equally likely.

Rectangular

Pertaining to a shape or object whose surface has four right angles and the opposite sides are parallel and equal in length.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; quantifies the degree to which values differ from the average value.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of data around a mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence.