Anthony Burns

question 14

Multiple Choice

Anthony Burns

• A)was a three-time invader of Nicaragua.
• B)attempted to mediate the slavery dispute in the Senate.
• C)was a runaway slave arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act.
• D)ran for president in 1848.
• E)introduced the Compromise of 1850.

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Definitions:

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them all together and dividing by the number of numbers.

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of data points in a dataset, quantifying how far each data point lies from the mean.

Sum of Squared Deviations

The total of the squared differences between each observation and the mean of a dataset.

Standard Deviation

An indicator used to assess the degree to which data points diverge or scatter around the average value.