While Most Real Property in the United States Is Privately

question 20

Multiple Choice

While most real property in the United States is privately owned, government regulations limit private property use and therefore play an important role in the determination of property value. Proponents of government intervention argue that regulation is needed to address the unintended and unaccounted for consequences of one land user upon others, more commonly referred to as:

• A) incomplete information
• B) locational monopoly
• C) externalities
• D) urban sprawl

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Definitions:

Nominal Data

Represents data that can be categorized but not ranked or ordered numerically.

Interval Data

A type of numerical data that has meaningful differences between values and a true zero point.

Ordinal Data

Describes a type of data which is categorized into ordered but not necessarily equally spaced categories.

Null Hypothesis

A statement used in statistics that proposes no significant difference or effect.