In U.S. v. National Treasury Employees Union, the Supreme Court:

a) overturned a ban on federal employees being paid for speaking or writing articles even on topics unrelated to their work; b) upheld the ban described in choice A; c) rejected a pay raise for federal workers; d) upheld a pay raise for federal workers; e) ordered the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to safeguard taxpayers’ rights.


A

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A. Lucy rounded her results instead of presenting the exact numbers. B. Lucy's sample isn't representative of college students as a whole. C. Lucy didn't use statistical measures correctly when presenting the results. D. All of these answers are correct. E. Both Lucy didn't use statistical measures correctly when presenting the results and Lucy rounded her results instead of presenting the exact numbers.

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