Which of the Following Scenarios Can Be Classified as Passive

question 180

Multiple Choice

Which of the following scenarios can be classified as passive policymaking?

• A) The Federal Reserve cuts the federal funds rate in order to increase economic activity.
• B) The federal government increases spending in order to create jobs.
• C) The Federal Reserve adjusts the money supply as appropriate to attain a target rate of inflation.
• D) Congress increases expenditures in an effort to stimulate economic activity.

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Definitions:

Mean Age

The average age of individuals in a population or group, calculated by adding their ages together and dividing by the number of individuals.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data, indicating where the middle of the data set lies.

Variability

The degree to which data points in a statistical distribution or dataset differ from each other and from the average.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variation in a set of numbers, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.