Benford's Law States That

question 28

Multiple Choice

Benford's Law states that:

• A) common tables and fields are needed by auditors to perform common audit tasks.
• B) analytics must be used to look for correlations or patterns of interest in the data.
• C) the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.
• D) in naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading significant digit is likely to be small.

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Definitions:

Abiotic Factors

Elements of the nonliving, physical environment that affect a particular organism. Compare with biotic factors.

Temperature

A measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a system, indicating how hot or cold the system is.

Latitude

Latitude refers to a geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the Earth's surface.

Biological Magnification

The process by which the concentration of toxic substances increases in organisms at each successive level of the food chain.