Abraham Lincoln’s early views on slavery emphasized:

Which argument did Southern states use to justify secession following Lincoln’s election?

Which of the following best explains the reaction to Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the North?

What was the significance of the Texas boundary settlement included in the Compromise of 1850?

Why did many Northerners view the Kansas-Nebraska Act as a betrayal?

Data from the Center for Disease Control estimates that about 20% (0.2) of incoming freshman at American universities were overweight in 2008. A professor in public health at a major university wants to determine at a 1% significance level whether the proportion has changed since 2008. He samples 100 randomly selected incoming freshman at universities around the country. Using the body mass index (BMI) measurements, he finds that 30 were overweight. Select the correct options. Note: Failure to select correct options or selecting incorrect ones will deduct points. 

You have calculated a 99% confidence interval for the mean number of hours volunteers work each week for a large charity. For each adjustment described below, if all else stayed the same, do your best match whether the confidence interval would become wider, narrower, or neither one.

The following two questions on this exam (#21 and #22) relate to Project Management (#21) and Inventory Management (#22). Please only respond to ONE of these two questions, answering all parts of the question.  You will only be graded on the Project Management question (#21)  if both questions are answered.  Choose just one of the two.  Total points will be 16 points for the one question you answer.   Please select which of the two questions you will respond to:  

There are one hundred towns in a state, and each contains exactly one thousand citizens. A statistician in the state chooses a town at random and takes all its citizens as their sample. Is this a simple random sample from the population of citizens in the state?

Charles is running a test to see if the proportion of coral reefs affected by bleaching is greater than 40%. He takes a SRS of coral reefs in his area of interest and observes them, finding a p-value of 0.03. His null hypothesis was that the proportion affected by bleaching is 40%, his alternative hypothesis is that the proportion affected by bleaching is greater than 40%. What is the interpretation of his p-value?