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It is believed that one of the most important factors in future gubernatorial races will be

Which best describes the attentiveness of the Texas public towards its legislature?

The ______ subculture holds that government’s primary responsibility is to promote the public welfare and that it should actively use its authority and power to improve the social and economic well-being of its citizens.

The _____________ was a series of state laws and party rules that denied African Americans the right to vote in the Democratic primary in Texas in the first half of the twentieth century.

Powers not mentioned specifically in the Constitution as belonging to the national government but inferred from those that are enumerated are called

A jigsaw puzzle consists of straight edged (including the four corners) and non-straight edged pieces.  When a jigsaw piece is randomly selected from the box, there is about a 12% chance of selecting a straight edged piece.  You take a simple random sample of 6 jigsaw pieces from the box.  Let X = the number of pieces that have a straight edge.  The distribution of X is binomial with n = 6 and p = 0.12.   a. How would you write the distribution of X using symbols? [1]   b. What is the sample space of this distribution? [2]   c. What is the probability of getting 2 or 3 straight edged pieces from the 6 randomly selected pieces? [3]  

The Hispanic population in Texas has increased because of

The _____ can confirm or reject the hundreds of appointees to state boards and commissions that administer public programs.

The numerous opportunities to vote in Texas leads to

From the perspective of sociology, myths are all of the following EXCEPT