The Spanish Initially Considered the Native Population of the West

question 21

Multiple Choice

The Spanish initially considered the native population of the West Indies, the Tainos, to be

• A)vicious savages who must be exterminated.
• B)an advanced civilization that brought awe and fear.
• C)a gentle, compliant, virtuous people who would make good Christians.
• D)a major threat.
• E)native tribes of the Japanese islands.

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Definitions:

Exponential Distribution

A continuous probability distribution used to model the time between events in a process where events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, computed by dividing the sum of these numbers by the count of numbers in the set.

Parameter λ

Often used to denote a rate parameter in exponential distributions which quantifies the frequency of occurrence for a given event.

Normally Distributed

A type of distribution for a variable where data are symmetrically distributed around the mean, showing a bell-shaped curve.