The Brown V

question 11

Multiple Choice

The Brown v. Plata U.S. Supreme Court case in 2011 issued a decision that required California to do which of the following?

• A) to maintain their prison population
• B) to provide individualized treatment to all inmates
• C) to build more prisons to hold more inmates
• D) to drastically reduce its prison population

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Definitions:

Probability Distribution

Describes the spread of possible values for a random variable, detailing the probability of each outcome.

Error Variable

A variable in statistical models that represents the deviation of observed values from the predicted values, reflecting unexplained or random variation.

Normal

Referring to a bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about its mean, used in statistics to describe well-behaved data sets.

Total Variation

The overall measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of data points from the mean or expected value.