State and Local Governments Have Custody Over What Percent of the Country's

question 81

Multiple Choice

State and local governments have custody over what percent of the country's 2.4 million prison and jail inmates?

• A)23%
• B)11%
• C)52%
• D)5%
• E)91%

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Summary Statistics

Statistical measures that capture important aspects of a dataset, such as its center, spread, and shape, with values like mean, median, and standard deviation.

Upper Fence

A value in boxplot analysis, calculated to identify outliers; it is typically set at Q3 + 1.5*IQR (where Q3 is the third quartile and IQR is the interquartile range).

Box And Whisker Plot

A graphical representation of data that shows the distribution's shape, central value, and variability.

Percentile

A measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group falls.