What Was the Government Trying to Accomplish When It Called

question 56

Multiple Choice

What was the government trying to accomplish when it called for the 2009 National Defense Authorization Act to create an additional database that would record contractors who have legal or contract violations?

• A) provide adequate government oversight for an increasingly expanding force of independent contractors
• B) create a national database to make it easier for the government to collect tax revenues from government contractors
• C) create a national database to make sure that government contractors do not have any conflicts of interest with high-ranking public officials
• D) create a better system so that the government can find contractors to perform government jobs more quickly
• E) increase the number of contractors available to work for the government

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Variance

A statistical measurement that represents the spread between numbers in a data set, indicating how much the numbers differ from the average value.

Variance

A statistical measure that represents the extent to which a set of numbers varies from the average of that set.

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The measure or estimation of how likely it is that an event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 (impossible) and 1 (certain).