In Most Texas Cities That Use the Council-Manager Form of Government

question 15

Multiple Choice

In most Texas cities that use the council-manager form of government today,

• A) there is a professional city manager, a mayor that is elected at large, and a city council that is elected by single-member districts.
• B) there is a professional city manager and a city council, but no mayor.
• C) there is a professional city manager, a mayor that is appointed by the city council, and a volunteer city council.
• D) there is a city manager that is elected at large, a mayor that is elected at large, and a city council that is elected by single member districts.

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Definitions:

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming these events happen with a known constant rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Service Rate

The speed at which a service provider can complete work or deliver services, often measured in customers served per unit of time or tasks completed per day.

Arrival Rate

The frequency at which entities (such as customers, materials, or information) reach a system or service point, often measured in entities per time unit.

Queue Discipline

Describes the rule or set of rules used to prioritize and manage elements in a queue, determining the order in which they are serviced.