The Importance of Foreign Direct Investment in the World's Economy

question 23

Multiple Choice

The importance of foreign direct investment in the world's economy has ________ over time.

• A) fallen slightly
• B) fallen significantly
• C) risen significantly
• D) risen slightly

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution where data is symmetrically distributed around the mean, with most values clustering around a central region.

Normally Distributed

A balanced distribution of probability about the mean, showing a higher occurrence rate for data near the mean compared to data far away.

Standard Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in hypothesis testing and other statistical analyses.

Z Scores

Scores that are normalized to show the number of standard deviations a data point is away from the distribution's average.