When the Alaskan Legislature Passed a Law in the 1970s

question 47

Multiple Choice

When the Alaskan legislature passed a law in the 1970s that gave state residents preference over nonresidents in obtaining work on oil pipelines, this law violated the ________ clause.

• A) interstate commerce
• B) full faith and credit
• C) privileges and immunities
• D) takings
• E) necessary and proper

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Definitions:

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical approach that utilizes data from a sample to test a theory regarding a population's parameter.

Normally Distributed Population

A population in which the data follows a normal distribution, having a bell-shaped frequency distribution curve.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

T Critical Value

The value from the t-distribution that is associated with a specified level of significance for a two-tailed test.