The Most Efficient Pollution Control System Would Ensure That

question 42

Multiple Choice

The most efficient pollution control system would ensure that

• A) the regulators decide how much each polluter should reduce its pollution.
• B) no pollution of the environment is tolerated.
• C) each polluter reduce its pollution an equal amount.
• D) the polluters with the lowest cost of reducing pollution reduce their pollution the greatest amount.

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Definitions:

Deviation

In statistics, it refers to how far a particular data point is from the mean of the data set.

Negatively Skewed

A distribution with a tail that extends to the left, indicating that the majority of the data points are located towards the right of the mode.

Distribution

In statistics, the way in which data or values are spread or distributed across possible values or intervals.

Normal Distribution

A symmetric, bell-shaped distribution of data where most of the observations cluster around the central peak and the probabilities for values further away from the mean taper off equally in both directions.