Immigrants from Asian Countries Were

question 74

Multiple Choice

Immigrants from Asian countries were

• A)allowed to enter the country in unlimited numbers by a 1924 Supreme Court decision.
• B)not mentioned in any federal law prior to 1973.
• C)strongly recruited to the United States by the federal government between 1882 and 1943.
• D)largely prohibited from entering the United States prior to the 1940s.

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Definitions:

Statistic

A single measure, reported as a number, used to summarize a sample of data.

Central Tendency

A measure that identifies the center of a data set, or where the bulk of the values lie, including mean, median, and mode.

Statistic

A statistic is a single measure, reported as a number, used to summarize a sample and to estimate the corresponding value in the larger population from which the sample was drawn.

Parameter

A parameter is a numerical characteristic of a population, such as its mean or standard deviation, as opposed to a statistic of a sample.