The Material That Would Eventually Make All the Major Bodies

question 35

Multiple Choice

The material that would eventually make all the major bodies in our solar system first gathered together as smaller pieces which astronomers call:

• A) planetesimals
• B) nebuloids
• C) satellites
• D) differentiated objects
• E) jovians

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Definitions:

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a population's values around the mean.

F-tests

F-tests are a class of statistical tests that compare the variances between groups to ascertain whether the means are significantly different, often based on F distribution.

One-tailed Tests

A type of hypothesis test that determines if there is a significant difference in a specific direction between the compared groups.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion of a population's values, quantifying how much the members of the population differ from the population mean.