Economics- The largest part of the discretionary spending program is spent on ...

A. Humanities
B. Defense Spending
C. Educational
D. Health Care

B. Defense Spending

Explanation:

In government term, Discretionary spending refers to parts of government spending that is considered as 'optional' , and required the  appropriations of bill in order to be implemented.

Around 2/3 government of Government is considered as 'essential'. This amount cannot be allocated to the Discretionary spending since it accounted for social  programs that must be given to the citizens of Untied States.

The remaining 1/3 can be allocated to the Discretionary spending. From this portion, Defense spending took up the largest percentage (15% of the Discretionary spending). Defense spending  pay off our soldiers,  purchasing military's equipment's, investing in military's research/development, etc.

the median of the data is 4.

step-by-step explanation:

the median means the middle number of a given number.

to decide which one is the median, arrange in ascending or descending order. but sometimes, you may find two(2) number in the middle, but it's easy, just add them together and divide by 2.

so,   determine the median of the data. 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9

it is already arranged, count 3 times forward and 3 backward and the one left is your answer.

2,3,3,4,5,7,9

our answer is 4.

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