If You Were to Compare Sunbelt Cities, Such as Houston

question 61

Multiple Choice

If you were to compare Sunbelt cities, such as Houston, to Snowbelt cities, such as Chicago, what differences would you find?

• A) Sunbelt cities have larger populations and are larger in physical size.
• B) Sunbelt cities are typically smaller in size.
• C) Sunbelt cities have smaller populations.
• D) sunbelt cities lack the sprawl typical of Snowbelt cities.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a data set, obtained by adding all the numbers and dividing by the count of numbers.

Normal Random Variable

A variable whose occurrences are distributed according to the normal distribution.

Percentile

A value on a scale of 100 that indicates the percentage of a distribution that is equal to or below it.