Which of the Following Is True About Poor Populations

question 14

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true about poor populations?

• A)There are more poor whites than poor blacks.
• B)The poor are disproportionately white.
• C)The poor are less likely to be children than the elderly.
• D)The poor are more likely to have graduated from high school.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A portfolio of values, extracted from sampling efforts, believed to encapsulate the undiscovered value of a population attribute.

Normal Distribution

A balanced probability distribution around the mean, demonstrating that occurrences are more frequent near the mean than away from it.

Margin of Error

An indicator of the precision of an estimate in statistics, showing the range within which the true value is expected to lie with a certain level of confidence.

Confidence Interval

A range of values that is used to estimate the true value of a population parameter with a certain level of confidence.