A Consequence of Article 3, Section 49a of the Texas

question 15

Multiple Choice

A consequence of Article 3, Section 49a of the Texas Constitution, also known as the pay-as-you-go limit, is that

• A) the dedicated funds are mandated in the constitution and cannot be altered.
• B) there is a specific margin of error allowed in the budgeting process.
• C) the plural executive has a significant influence in the budgeting process.
• D) since taxes are paid into the state on a yearly basis, the legislature is able to set an annual budget.

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Definitions:

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that expresses the likelihood of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space.

Normal Distribution

A type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable, characterized by a symmetric bell-shaped curve.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood that a variable will take one of two independent values under a given set of parameters.

Random Variable

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