Recall the Application About Women in the U

question 66

Multiple Choice

Recall the Application about women in the U.S. labor force to answer the following question(s) . The labor
force participation rate for women 20 years and older grew from 32 percent in 1948 to 43 percent in 1970 and reached 60 percent by 1997.
-According to this Application, since 1997, the labor force participation rate for women in the United States has

• A)remained virtually constant.
• B)increased more than 10 percent.
• C)decreased more than 20 percent.
• D)equaled the participation rate for men.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean.

Distribution

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area, or the arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence.

Variance

A statistical measure of dispersion that shows how much values in a data set differ from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean, used to assess the spread of a data distribution.