Which of the Following Statements About Early Colonial Life in the Chesapeake

question 86

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about early colonial life in the Chesapeake region is true?

• A) Settlers lived in primitive houses.
• B) Colonists relied on township grants.
• C) Social divisions decreased as the colonies matured.
• D) Indians tended to ignore and avoid English communities.
• E) Settlers lived in small but ornate houses.

---

Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree of variability or spread within a dataset, reflecting the extent to which the data points diverge from the average value.

Variance

An index of variability in a set of data, established by taking the average squared deviation from the mean.

Tchebysheff's Theorem

A theorem that states for any real numbers k > 1, at least (1-1/k^2) of the data values fall within k standard deviations of the mean for any distribution.

Empirical Rule

A statistical rule stating that for a normally distributed dataset, about 68% of values fall within one standard deviation, 95% within two, and 99.7% within three standard deviations from the mean.