Statement I: in 2008 the Official Poverty Line for a Family

question 242

Multiple Choice

Statement I: In 2008 the official poverty line for a family of four was $22,025.
Statement II: The poverty rate in 2009 was 13.2%.

• A)Statement I is true and statement II is false.
• B)Statement II is true and statement I is false.
• C)Both statements are true.
• D)Both statements are false.

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Definitions:

Mean Temperature

The average value of temperature measured over a specific period of time or across different locations.

Tensile Strength

The maximum amount of tensile (pulling) stress that a material can withstand before breaking or failing.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data from its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample statistic, that is likely to contain the population parameter with a certain degree of confidence.