What Motivated Noah Webster to Create the First Comprehensive American

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Multiple Choice

What motivated Noah Webster to create the first comprehensive American dictionary?

• A) It would help establish a national language, reduce cultural dependence on England, and inspire national pride.
• B) There was already a well-established American English dialect.
• C) He wanted to simplify the written language for the less educated people in the United States.
• D) He wanted to incorporate words from Native American languages.
• E) It would quickly establish English as the official language over German, French, or Spanish.

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Definitions:

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Random Variables

Variables whose possible values are numerical outcomes of a random phenomenon.

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The expected value of the random variable X, representing the mean or average value that X takes on.

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The expected value of the random variable Y, representing the mean or average outcome of a set of possible values weighted by their probabilities.