Which of the Following Statements Is True

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true?

• A) During the 2011 legislative session, it became apparent that the booming state economy had dramatically increased state revenues.
• B) The effects of the Great Recession did not reach Texas, as the state enjoyed surplus revenues.
• C) The legislative session in 2011 was particularly difficult because the Great Recession had significantly reduced state revenue.
• D) The Texas legislature did not meet in 2011.

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.

Population

The set of all elements of interest in a particular study.

F Distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the analysis of variance and is used to calculate differences among group means when the groups have different sizes.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, often related to the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.