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These box plots show the number of electoral votes one by democratic and republican presidential candidates for the elections from 1984 through 2012. which statement best compares the spread of the data sets

Ahypothesis is: a the average squared deviations about the mean of a distribution of values b) an empirically testable statement that is an unproven supposition developed in order to explain phenomena a statement that asserts the status quo; that is, any change from what has been c) thought to be true is due to random sampling order da statement that is the opposite of the null hypothesis e) the error made by rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true

Written as a simplified polynomial in standard form, what is the result when (2x+8)^2(2x+8) 2 is subtracted from 8x^2-38x 2 −3?