What Type of Severe Weather Event Killed Up to 35,000

question 108

Multiple Choice

What type of severe weather event killed up to 35,000 people in Europe during the summer of 2003?

• A) a flood on the Elbe River
• B) a drought
• C) a tornado outbreak
• D) a heat wave

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Definitions:

Sample Space

The set of all experimental outcomes.

Sample Points

Individual pieces of data or observations collected from a sample that are used for analysis.

Experiment

A procedure carried out under controlled conditions to discover an unknown effect, to test a hypothesis, or to illustrate a known effect.

Mutually Exclusive

A condition where two events cannot occur at the same time; the occurrence of one event excludes the possibility of the other event occurring.