Select the correct answer. Activists in a state are campaigning for their state government to increase the percentage of revenue it spends on education. The activists’ main argument is that increased spending will improve proficiency levels among students. A newspaper columnist is drafting an opinion piece to argue against the activists’ suggestion. Which findings, if true, would support the columnist’s argument? A. a strong positive correlation between education expenditure and students’ proficiency levels across many states B. the absence of a correlation between education expenditure and students’ proficiency levels across many states C. the absence of a correlation between proficiency levels in different states when plotted as a time series D. a positive correlation between education expenditure levels in different states when plotted as a time series

What does it mean to say that "service sector" jobs are predominant in europe's mixed economies today? a. that jobs where people work in factories predominate b. that jobs where people do something for others predominate c. that jobs where people work the land predominate d. that jobs in government predominate

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

The economy of the united states is best described as