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A sociological study is planed to conduct in a small town to estimate the proportion of households with at least one senior (over 65 years old) individual. They want to estimate the true proportion with a margin of error no larger than 0.04 using a 95% confidence interval. How many households should be sampled in order to ensure the above specifications in their estimation? 

Using the following five-number summary, indicate whether each statement below is true or false.  Minimum Q1 Median Q3 Maximum 20 35.6 52 72 99  

THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out- of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses. THE TAKING BACK OUR STREETS ACT: An anti-crime package including stronger truth-in- sentencing, “good faith” exclusionary rule exemptions, effective death penalty provisions, and cuts in social spending from this summer’s “crime” bill to fund prison construction and additional law enforcement to keep people secure in their neighborhoods and kids safe in their schools. THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: Discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility. THE FAMILY REINFORCEMENT ACT: Child support enforcement, tax incentives for adoption, strengthening rights of parents in their children’s education, stronger child pornography laws, and an elderly dependent care tax credit to reinforce the central role of families in American society.   The four pieces of legislation above were part of a proposal led by the Heritage Foundation during the 1994 midterm election season called:

“We think that, by using its public school system to encourage recitation of the Regents’ prayer, the State of New York has adopted a practice wholly inconsistent with the Establishment Clause…For this reason, petitioners argue, the State’s use of the Regents’ prayer in its public school system breaches the constitutional wall of separation between Church and State. We agree with that contention, since we think that the constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that, in this country, it is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers for any group of the American people to recite as a part of a religious program carried on by government.” Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 424-25 (1962)   What group or organization would have worked hardest in the 1980s to see a reversal of this Supreme Court decision?  

“First, drug education — the 1990 budget has provided over a $200 million increase for school and community prevention programs like those that have proven so successful right here. We’ve got to teach our children to stay away from drugs. We’ve got to stop illegal drug use before it even gets started. And second, drug treatment and prevention — too many people in too many cities simply aren’t getting the help they need. That’s not right. And that’s why the ’90 budget has boosted spending on drug treatment and prevention, and especially cocaine treatment, by about $375 million. And third, for those who cannot learn or will not seek help, we have a plan for them, too, because we’re going to take back the streets by taking them off the streets. And that means helping your able police chief. That means punishing those who do evil.” President George H.W. Bush, “Remarks at the Acres Homes War on Drugs Rally in Houston, Texas,” December 1989 Which statements describe the effects of the policy described in the excerpt? (more than one may be correct)

Our … goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction.  Some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since September the 11th.  But we know their true nature.  .. States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.  By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.  They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred.  They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States.  In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic. President George W. Bush, “State of the Union Address,” Jan. 29, 2002   The rhetoric of this speech led most directly to which action during the George W. Bush administration?

All of the following were monetary solutions to Containment except:

Which of the following is NOT a role of the Environmental Protection Agency?

McCarthyism was sparked by the claim of Senator Joseph McCarthy that he had a list of suspected _____ in the government.

Which of the following would NOT be considered part of the Black Power Movement?