Cheaper and Better Steel Production Led to All of the Following

question 56

Multiple Choice

Cheaper and better steel production led to all of the following except

• A)the characterization of the second half of the nineteenth century as the "age of steel."
• B)the expansion of rail systems.
• C)overproduction of steel and a severe depression.
• D)strong growth of the building industry.
• E)the evolution of shopping emporiums.

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Definitions:

Continuous Normal Distribution

A type of 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.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.

Normal Distribution

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

Continuous Random Variable

A random variable that may assume any numerical value in an interval or collection of intervals.