While Jails in Some States Hold Persons for Only a Few

question 31

Multiple Choice

While jails in some states hold persons for only a few hours, most jails can detain people for _____ hours or longer.

• A)8
• B)12
• C)48
• D)72

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a data set, obtained by adding all the numbers and dividing by the count of numbers.

Normal Random Variable

A variable whose occurrences are distributed according to the normal distribution.

Percentile

A value on a scale of 100 that indicates the percentage of a distribution that is equal to or below it.