Which of the Following Statements Best Describes the Difference Between

question 66

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements best describes the difference between law and ethics?

• A) Ethics tells us what we must do; law tells us what we should do.
• B) Law tells us what we must do; ethics tells us what we should do.
• C) Law and ethics are interchangeable.
• D) If people act unethically, they have broken the law.
• E) People need not worry about acting legally, as long as they act ethically.

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Definitions:

Margin of Error

Indicates the confidence in the precision of a survey or poll result, quantifying potential deviation from the true population value.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the range or distribution of a data set, showing the degree to which the values diverge from the average.

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Confidence Interval

A statistical term for the range within which we expect, with a certain level of confidence, that a population parameter lies based on a sample statistic.