Which of the Giant Planets Was Predicted to Exist Mathematically

question 84

Multiple Choice

Which of the giant planets was predicted to exist mathematically before it was ever seen through a telescope?

• A) Jupiter
• B) Saturn
• C) Uranus
• D) Neptune
• E) Eris

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Definitions:

Kurtosis

A measure of the "tailedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; high kurtosis indicates a distribution with heavy tails and a sharp peak, while low kurtosis indicates a flatter distribution.

Histogram

This is a graphical representation of data using bars of different heights where each bar groups numbers into ranges.

Unimodal

Describing a distribution with a single peak or mode, representing the most frequently occurring value.

Empirical Rules

A set of guidelines that indicate how the data are spread in a normal distribution, specifically stating that approximately 68%, 95%, and 99.7% of the data fall within one, two, and three standard deviations from the mean, respectively.