Where Do the Majority of Earthquakes and Volcanoes Occur?​

question 95

Multiple Choice

Where do the majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur?​

• A) ​in the interior of continents
• B) ​on oceanic islands
• C) ​along the edge of plate boundaries
• D) ​in the open ocean
• E) ​in the U.S.

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Definitions:

Arithmetic Mean

The arithmetic mean is a statistical measure that represents the sum of all values in a dataset divided by the number of values.

Geometric Means

A statistical measure defined as the nth root (where n is the count of numbers) of the product of n numbers, particularly useful in calculating average rates of growth.

Investment

The act of allocating resources, usually money, with the expectation of generating an income or profit.

Variance

Variance is a measure of the dispersion of a set of data points from their mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.