New Evidence Shows That Most Stars Have Orbiting Planets and That

question 28

Essay

New evidence shows that most stars have orbiting planets and that planets are more common than stars.Do you think that there might be life on other planets besides Earth? What conditions would be necessary to support life? How would the discovery of life on another planet change your perspective of Earth's life?

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Definitions:

Standard Errors

Measures of the variability or spread of a sample statistic distribution if the experiment were to be repeated many times.

Control Limits

The boundaries in statistical process control that indicate the acceptable range of process variation.

Sample Mean

The average of a sample set of numbers, calculated as the sum of all the observed values divided by the number of observations.

Trend

The prevailing trend or the way in which something is evolving or transforming with the passage of time.