Christopher Columbus's Decision to Sail West to Reach Asia Was

question 34

Multiple Choice

Christopher Columbus's decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on

• A) assistance from an experienced Muslim sailor.
• B) secret information on trade routes that he had received indirectly from Chinese sources.
• C) legends left over from the earlier Viking voyages.
• D) his miscalculation of the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan.
• E) information that he had gathered after inventing his own astrolabe.

---

Definitions:

Standard Error

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a sample statistic, such as the mean, from the population mean, often used to indicate precision.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, most commonly the mean, reflecting the variability of an estimate from sample to sample.

Estimate

An approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something.

Coefficient of Determination

A statistical measure, often denoted as R², that represents the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).