Representatives and Senators Who Are Concerned About Retaining Their Seats

question 58

Multiple Choice

Representatives and senators who are concerned about retaining their seats in Congress would be most likely to spend significant time on which of the following activities in the months leading to up to an election?

• A) considering the issues that interest them, with the idea that their constituents trust them to know what is most important to their districts
• B) making time for committee work, by putting aside correspondence from their constituents
• C) meeting with well known lobbyists in Washington, rather than visiting with people in their home districts, so their constituents can see that they work hard
• D) paying attention to public opinion polls
• E) responding to public concerns in their districts, rather than trying to shape public opinion there

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Definitions:

Empirical Rule

The rule in statistics where for any normal distribution, practically all of the data is expected to be within three standard deviations from the mean value.

Empirical Rule

A statistical principle that asserts in a normal distribution, almost all data points are contained within three standard deviations from the average.

Tchebysheff's Theorem

Tchebysheff's theorem provides a bound on the probability that a random variable deviates from its mean, regardless of the distribution's shape, for any number of standard deviations.

Stem-And-Leaf Plot

A graphical representation of quantitative data that allows for the shape of the distribution to be easily seen, sorting data into "stems" and "leaves."