Plain Language Is a Style of Writing

question 30

Multiple Choice

Plain language is a style of writing

• A) used only for casual correspondence.
• B) designed to make information more understandable to the audience.
• C) aimed primarily at readers for whom English is a second language.
• D) inappropriate for business communication.
• E) used in industry to describe products and technical issues, but never in professional settings.

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Definitions:

Population's Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of scores within a given population, indicating the average distance from the mean.

Observed Z Value

The value resulting from a Z-test statistic used in hypothesis testing, representing how many standard deviations an observation is from the mean.

Sample Mean

The average value of a set of numbers in a sample taken from a larger population. It is used to estimate the population mean.

Population Average

The population average is the mean value of a particular characteristic for the entire population, providing a central tendency measure of that characteristic.