What Was One of the Most Important Features of the Northwest

question 16

Multiple Choice

What was one of the most important features of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

• A) It set aside a section of each township for education.
• B) It abolished slavery in all of the United States.
• C) It prohibited slavery in the Old Northwest.
• D) It used the revenue from land sales for defense of the West.
• E) It established "land grant" universities in each of the Great Lakes states.

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Hypergeometric Distribution

A probability distribution used for sampling without replacement, describing scenarios with two outcomes.

Events Of Interest

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Randomly

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Poisson Probability Distribution

A discrete frequency distribution which gives the probability of a number of independent events occurring in a fixed period of time or space if these events happen with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.