A ____ Is Any Instruction, Such as an Assignment Statement

question 71

Multiple Choice

A ____ is any instruction, such as an assignment statement or a computation that updates or computes a data value.

• A) data function
• B) data operation
• C) data declaration
• D) control structure

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

The average value computed from a subset (sample) of a population, used to estimate the population's mean.

Sample Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of sample data values.

Variance

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

Risk

Exposure to uncertainty or potential financial loss; the chance that an investment's actual gains will differ from expected gains.