"Cracking" Occurs When

question 68

Multiple Choice

"Cracking" occurs when

• A)legislative districts are redrawn in a way that concentrates members of a particular party in as few districts as possible, thereby limiting the overall number of seats that party might win.
• B)legislative districts are redrawn in a way that disperses members of a particular party across multiple districts, thereby reducing that party's chances of winning any seats.
• C)a legislative candidate wins election with less than 50 percent of the vote in a three-candidate race.
• D)a legislative district votes to elect a member of one party to serve in the House of Representatives but also elects a member of a different party to serve in the state legislature.

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Definitions:

Regression Parameters

Parameters in a statistical model that estimate the relationship between independent variables and a dependent variable.

Least Squares

A mathematical method used to find the best-fitting line or curve to a given set of data points by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observed and predicted values.

Sum Of Squares

The sum of the squared differences between each observation and the overall mean, used in various statistical methods.

Population Regression Line

The line that best describes the relationship between independent variable(s) and a dependent variable in the entire population.