Which of the Following Statements About Public Broadcasting Is True

question 7

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about public broadcasting is true?

• A) It would have lost all funding from the government if the Senate hadn't killed a 2011 effort by a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
• B) Public broadcasting hopes to increase corporate contributions with on-air promotional messages.
• C) One of its main missions continues to be providing educational children's programming.
• D) The bulk of the funding for public broadcasting comes from viewers, listeners, and corporations.
• E) All of the options are correct.

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value in a list of numbers, which divides the dataset into two halves.

Mode

The value that occurs most frequently in a given set of data.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; a low standard deviation indicates that the values tend to be close to the mean of the set.

Variability

Refers to the degree of difference or deviation from the mean within a set of data.