Mike Was Raised in a Working Class Household; His Trajectory

question 7

Multiple Choice

Mike was raised in a working class household; his trajectory was toward a working class lifestyle. He got a scholarship that allowed him to afford a two-year degree and established his own handyman service. The scholarship that paid for his education is an example of a ______.

• A) radical adjustment
• B) transition
• C) realignment
• D) social safety net

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Definitions:

Correlation

An indicator that measures the degree to which multiple variables vary in unison.

Denseness

A measure of the compactness or crowding of objects within a given area or volume.

Slope

The measure of the steepness or inclination of a line, often describing the rate of change between two variables.

Simple Linear Regression

A statistical method that allows us to summarize and study relationships between two continuous (quantitative) variables.