Canada

question 62

Multiple Choice

Canada

• A) had only a cautious, minimal subsidy program to private insurance companies to cover catastrophic health insurance for its citizens until 1999.
• B) like Latin America, has an economy based entirely on the export of raw materials.
• C) has only a poor working class with an average income considerably lower than that of blue-collar workers in Latin America.
• D) supported a free-trade agreement with the U.S. that was unpopular with many voters.
• E) has three official languages: English, French and Cree.

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

A measure of statistical dispersion, representing the difference between the 25th (lower quartile) and 75th (upper quartile) percentiles of the data.

Percentile Rank

A score indicating the percentage of scores in a distribution that a particular score is equal to or higher than.

Cumulative Distribution

A method of converting a frequency distribution of scores into increasing percentages as a function of the percentage of scores counted. A bar graph is often generated by placing the class interval scores along the x-axis and the cumulative percentages along the y-axis.

Frequency Polygon

A method of converting a frequency distribution of scores into a line graph. After combining scores by class interval, the class intervals are placed along the x-axis and the frequency of scores along the y-axis.