Following the Declaration of War

question 52

Multiple Choice

Following the declaration of war:

• A) a surge of volunteerism allowed the repeal of the Selective Service Act to end the draft
• B) men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted
• C) all men and women between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted
• D) men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five were drafted
• E) the draft was enacted for the first time in American history

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Definitions:

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, found by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.

Median

The midpoint in a set of values, such that 50% of the cases in a distribution fall below the median and 50% fall above it.

Mode

The most frequently occurring score in a distribution.

Skewness

A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean, indicating whether the distribution is stretched more to the left or to the right.