-Looking at This Map of U

question 69

Essay

-Looking at this map of U.S. electrical sources, what are the major sources of energy today in the U.S. Southwest? What energy alternatives can you propose for the Southwest? Assuming that your energy alternatives could be fully implemented in the next few years, what energy options would then become available to other regions of the country as well?

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Definitions:

Interval

A range between two numbers or points, often used to specify a period of time or a statistical range.

Standard Normal Distribution

A specific probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Z-score

A metric that depicts how far a certain value stands from the mean of a collection of values, using the unit of standard deviations for measurement.

First Quartile

The value below which 25% of the data falls, marking the lower quarter of a data set.