In 2012,the Five Smallest States Held Roughly 0

question 77

Multiple Choice

In 2012,the five smallest states held roughly 0.5 percent of the seats in the U.S.House of Representatives and 10 percent of the seats in the U.S.Senate.These differing levels of representation of the five small states were the result of which decision during the Constitutional Convention?

• A)the New Jersey Plan
• B)the Virginia Plan
• C)the Three-Fifths Compromise
• D)the Great Compromise
• E)the Separation of Powers

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Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample data, that is believed, with a certain degree of probability, to contain the true population parameter.

Margin Of Error

An estimate of the amount by which an observed sample result may differ from the true value, providing a confidence interval for the estimation.

Statistic

A numerical characteristic or measure of a sample extracted from a larger population.

Student T Distributed

A probability distribution used in statistical analysis when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.