A Minor Violation of a State Statute or Local Ordinance

question 19

Multiple Choice

A minor violation of a state statute or local ordinance punishable by a fine or other penalty, or by a specified, usually very short term of incarceration, is called a(n) _____.

• A) infraction
• B) misdemeanor
• C) felony
• D) perjury

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from their mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample data, that is likely to include the value of an unknown population parameter.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Proportion

The fraction or percentage that represents a part of a whole or any number of items in relation to the total.