Calculations of Flushing Times Assume That None of the Out

question 45

Multiple Choice

Calculations of flushing times assume that none of the out flowing water is recycled into the estuary. If this assumption is not correct, the actual flushing time is __________ the calculated flushing time.

• A) less than
• B) greater than
• C) the same as
• D) not related to
• E) None of these are correct.

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Definitions:

Cumulative Relative Frequency

The accumulation of the previous relative frequencies up to a certain class or point, showing the proportion of observations below a particular value in a dataset.

Dispersion

A measure of the spread of a distribution or the variability of data points around a central value.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Percentile

A measure used in statistics to indicate the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.