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In a laboratory exercise determined to identify a substance, a student weighed a piece of metal and found it to be 8.1 grams.  They dropped it in water, and the water rose 3.0 mL.  What is the identify of the metal?  (Look at the densities on the front page of the Chemistry Reference Table).

Essay (50 points) Congressional Power What is the difference between unicameral, asymmetric bicameralism, and symmetric bicameralism?  What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?  Could power be consolidated in Congress in order to make it more like a parliament?   Would this be desirable?  What would be the advantages and disadvantages of concentration of power in the hands of a few leaders?  Should Congress be changed to strengthen the power of the institution relative to the presidency?

Identifications (50 points) Define and state the significance of 4 of the following: Supreme Court Confirmation Process Filibuster Presidential Approval Ratings Judicial Review Presidential Veto The Cabinet

Identifications (50 points) Define and state the significance of 4 of the following: Fourteenth Amendment          Articles of Confederation New Jersey Plan Gitlow v. New York Separation of Powers Unitary System

Essay (50 points) The Constitution How is the U.S. Constitution distinct from that of other countries?  Is the brevity and vagueness of the U.S. Constitution a strength or weakness of the document?  How can we understand the provisions of the U.S. Constitution based on the time at which it was written?  Are there any antiquated elements of the U.S. Constitution?  Is it time for another Constitutional Convention?

Identifications (50 points) Define and state the significance of 4 of the following: Michigan Scale of Ideology Consequences of the Changing Media Voting Turnout in the U.S. Public Opinion Iron Triangle Electoral College

Essay (50 points) Political Parties When George Wallace ran for president in 1968, he argued that “There’s not a dimes worth of difference between the Democratic and Republican parties.  Do you agree or disagree with Wallace’s statement?  Why?  Should there be a large ideological difference between the parties?  How do party systems work in other countries?  Would the United States be better off if it had a different party system?

There are 9 students starting elementary school and their teacher in a classroom. If the mean and median are computed for the ages of these 10 people, then 

Please note that this question consists of five parts. Show all your work/explanation. Just giving the answer without adequate work/explanation may result in zero for the question.  The amount of sugar in 1 kg (1000 g) sugar packets is normally distributed with mean of 1032 g and standard deviation 28 g.  What proportion of sugar packets are underweight (below 1000 g)? What is the proportion of sugar packets whose weight is between 990 g and 1050 g? What weight value divides the 15% heaviest sugar packets from the rest? A random sample of 16 sugar packets is weighed. What is the distribution, mean and the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean of weights of these 16 sugar packets? What is the probability that the sample mean of weights of these 16 sugar packets is below 1000 g?

Here is a copy of the Z table  Z table.pdf