Given That BEST Was Used as the Key Word to Encrypt

question 10

Multiple Choice

Given that BEST was used as the key word to encrypt with the Vigenère cipher, decrypt the message BTJBDSL.

• A) PATRIOT
• B) POPCORN
• C) AIRPORT
• D) APRICOT

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Definitions:

Bootstrap Distribution

A statistical technique for estimating the sampling distribution of an estimator by resampling with replacement from the original dataset.

Observed Mean

The arithmetic average of observed values in a dataset, calculated as the sum of all observations divided by the number of observations.

P-value

A statistical measure that helps researchers determine the significance of their research results, indicating the probability of observing the collected data, or something more extreme, if the null hypothesis were true.

Resamples Without Replacement

Resampling without replacement involves selecting subsets of data where each sample is only chosen once for inclusion in any subset.