Which of the Following Statements Best Describes the Effect of the Voting

question 74

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements best describes the effect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
On voter registration in southern states?

• A)A smaller percentage of African Americans registered to vote in southern states after passage of the Voting Rights Act.
• B)A much larger percentage of whites registered to vote in southern states after passage of the Voting Rights Act.
• C)The percentage of African Americans registering to vote did not change after passage of the Voting Rights Act.
• D)The gap between the percentage of whites registering to vote and the percentage of African Americans registering to vote declined significantly after passage of the Voting Rights Act.

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Definitions:

Mutually Exclusive

Characteristics of events that cannot occur at the same time within a single experiment or trial.

Sample Space

The set of all possible outcomes or results in a probability experiment.

Random Experiment

An experiment or process for which the outcome cannot be predicted with certainty ahead of time, involving random variables.

Mutually Exclusive

refers to events that cannot occur at the same time in a probabilistic experiment.