Elements That Have Five Electrons in the Highest-Energy P Sublevel

question 39

Multiple Choice

Elements that have five electrons in the highest-energy p sublevel in their ground state are called ________.

• A)alkali metals
• B)alkaline earth metals
• C)halogens
• D)noble gases
• E)transition metals

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Definitions:

Ratio

A relationship between two numbers indicating how many times the first number contains the second or how the two numbers compare in size.

Median

The middle value in a set of data when it is ordered from least to greatest, or the point at which half the data values are above and half are below.

Median

The middle value in a set of ordered data, or the average of the two middle values when the set has an even number of observations.

Absolute Frequency

The count of occurrences or instances of a particular event or property in a dataset.