The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U

question 39

Multiple Choice

The fifth and fourteenth amendments to the U.S. constitution

• A) prohibit discrimination based on age, race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
• B) require that men and women be paid the same amount for performing similar job duties.
• C) require firms to hire and promote handicapped persons if the firm employs 50 or more employees.
• D) prohibit discrimination against people of ages 40 and older.
• E) provide equal protection standards to prevent irrational or unreasonable selection methods.

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Definitions:

Fair Die

A perfectly balanced die where each face has an equal probability of landing face up upon being thrown.

Expected Times

Probabilistic estimates of the time durations in which certain events are anticipated to occur.

Chi-Square Test

A statistical test used to examine the differences between categorical variables in a contingency table.

Right-Tailed

Refers to a type of hypothesis test where the area of interest is in the right tail of the probability distribution, usually testing for values greater than a certain number.