Which of the Following Explains Why Fluctuations in Real GDP

question 163

Multiple Choice

Which of the following explains why fluctuations in real GDP have become less volatile in the United States since 1950?

• A)Services have become a smaller fraction of GDP since the 1950s.
• B)Unemployment insurance and other government transfer programs are more prevalent since the 1950s.
• C)The government has become more reluctant to intervene when real GDP declines and unemployment rises since the 1950s.
• D)both B and C

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about the mean, describing how values of a variable are spread or dispersed.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them together and dividing by the count of numbers.

Standard Deviation

It quantifies the spread of a dataset, illustrating how much individual data points diverge from the mean value.

Z-score

A measure of how many standard deviations an element is from the mean; used in statistics for standardizing scores.