The Authors of Your Text Refer to Which of the Following

question 70

Multiple Choice

The authors of your text refer to which of the following as the most brilliant of Louis XIV's policies?

• A)Establishing good relations with the church
• B)Demonstrating the king's magnificence through ritual and architecture
• C)Dismissal of aristocrats as prominent advisors to the king
• D)Gaining the confidence and support of the French manufacturers
• E)The intendant system

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Definitions:

Bell-Shaped

A bell-shaped curve is a graph of a distribution that resembles the shape of a bell, typically representing a normal distribution in which the bulk of the values lie towards the center and taper off symmetrically towards the extremes.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of numerical data, indicating how spread out the values are.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, found by dividing the sum of all the numbers by the count of the numbers.

Population Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a population, calculated as the average of the squared deviations from the mean.