Which of the Following Is One Hypothesis That Has Been

question 73

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is one hypothesis that has been suggested to explain the uniform age of the surface of Venus?

• A)The surface of Venus is made of rocks that are much harder than the Earth's and thus last longer.
• B)Venus periodically goes through a catastrophic melting of the entire surface.
• C)The clouds in the atmosphere of Venus protect it from meteorites so that very few impacts occur to change its surface.
• D)Dust storms deposit large amount of dust on the surface of Venus, making it appear to be of uniform age.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values that is believed to contain an unknown population parameter, calculated from a given set of sample data.

Sample Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of observations in a sample dataset around the sample mean.

T Distribution

A family of probability distributions that can be used to develop an interval estimate of a population mean whenever the population standard deviation s is unknown and is estimated by the sample standard deviation s.

Variance

A measure of the spread between numbers in a data set, indicating how much the numbers differ from the mean.