Most Analysts Expect the Largest Federal Spending Category to Continue

question 101

Multiple Choice

Most analysts expect the largest federal spending category to continue to grow in importance for many years into the future.What category of spending is this?

• A) National defense
• B) Social Security
• C) Income security
• D) Farm support programs

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Definitions:

Population Variances

A measure of dispersion that indicates how much individual members of a population deviate from the population mean.

Rejection Region

In hypothesis testing, the range of values for which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion of all the data points in a population from the mean.

Confidence Interval

A span of numbers, extracted from statistics of a sample, which is probably going to include the value of an unseen population parameter, with a specified level of certainty.