The Number of Electoral Votes from Each State Is Determined

question 38

Multiple Choice

The number of electoral votes from each state is determined by _________________.

• A) the state legislatures of each state
• B) a vote in Congress prior to each election
• C) the number of seats each state has in Congress
• D) each political party
• E) results of a conference between the two major political parties

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Definitions:

Dispersion

A statistical term referring to the spread of data points around a central measure, such as mean or median.

Unbiased Estimate

A conservative estimate of a population parameter.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of data points, indicating how spread out the data are from their mean.

Subtract

The action or method of deducting one number or quantity from another.