If You Were Being Transported to a Federal Prison as a Result

question 2

Multiple Choice

If you were being transported to a federal prison as a result of breaking a federal criminal law, what agency would you anticipate would be coming to pick you up?

• A) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
• B) the state police
• C) the sheriff's office (sheriff's deputies)
• D) the U.S. Marshals Service

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Definitions:

Nominal Data

A classification of categorical variables that do not have a natural order or rank.

Interval Data

A type of quantitative data that involves measurements where the difference between two values is meaningful, but there is no true zero point.

Bimodal Data

Data that has two different modes, or peaks, in its frequency distribution.

Empirical Rule

A statistical rule stating that for a normal distribution, nearly all of the data will fall within three standard deviations of the mean.