The Testimony of Daniel Wescot in the Trial of Elizabeth

question 8

Multiple Choice

The testimony of Daniel Wescot in the trial of Elizabeth Clawson suggests that __________ may have played a role in witch trials.

• A) religious fervor
• B) personal grudges
• C) political motives
• D) cultural misunderstandings

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Definitions:

Poisson Distribution

A statistical distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming these events occur with a known constant rate and independently of the time since the last event.

M/M/1 Queue

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Units in the System

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Poisson Distribution

A statistical distribution describing the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming events happen independently at a constant rate.