What Determines How Many Electoral Votes Each State Receives

question 41

Multiple Choice

What determines how many electoral votes each state receives?

• A) A number of electoral votes equal to the number of seats each state has in Congress
• B) A number of electoral votes equal to the number of seats each state has in its state legislature
• C) A number of electoral votes equal to the number of voters who voted in the previous general election
• D) A number of electoral votes equal to the number of delegates the state had at the national party convention
• E) A number of electoral votes proportional to the number of registered voters

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Definitions:

Dependent Variables

Variables in an experiment or model that are expected to change in response to changes in independent variables.

Intercept

In the context of a regression line, it is the expected value of the dependent variable when all independent variables are zero.

Slope

In the context of linear regression, the coefficient indicating the rate of change in the dependent variable for one unit change in an independent variable.

Coefficient Of Determination

A statistical measure, often denoted as R^2, that represents the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable predictable from the independent variable(s).