Which Was Not a Technical Innovation Supporting the Age of Exploration

question 23

Multiple Choice

Which was not a technical innovation supporting the age of exploration?

• A)fly compass
• B)astrolabe
• C)caravel
• D)lateen Sails
• E)galleys powered by sails and oars

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Definitions:

Level Of Significance

A threshold or criterion for judging whether a statistical result is significant, commonly set at values like 0.05 or 0.01, indicating the risk of a Type I error.

Null Hypothesis

A default hypothesis that there is no significant difference or effect, tested against to determine the likelihood of the alternative hypothesis.

One-Tail Test

A statistical test in which the region of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution, used to determine if a parameter is greater than or less than a certain value.

Two-Tail

Describes tests or intervals in statistics that consider extreme values in both tails of the distribution to test hypotheses or compute confidence intervals.