Civics questions help please?

Question

i'm so lost! these are multiple questions:

1. A well-constructed polling sample reflects which of the following?

A. the characteristics of an entire population

B. a random population

C. sample population

D. specific population

2. Article 3 of the constitution gives federal courts jurisdiction over 8 kinds of cases, not including which of the following?

A. involving foreign govts

B. disputing state law

C. involving U.S diplomats

D. involving the constitution

3. A judge in the U.S court of appeals will enver be responsible for making which of teh following decisions?

A. deciding the guilt or innocenceof a defendant

B. that the case should be tried again

C. whether a defendant has recieved a fair trial

D. a defendant's rights have been prosecuted

4. which of the following is an EX. of a case that the supreme court would NOT accept?

A one regarding a law that was challenged on appeal

B. involves a federal law

C. actual legal dispute

D. one that involves a state

Answer 1

1.  B  It is not feasible to poll an entire population  2.  A  federal courts do not have jurisdiction over other countries.  3.  A  you are not proven innocant in a court of law, only not guilty. 4.  C  the US Supreme Court is considered a court of last resort, it is an appeals court.

Answer 2

I suggest you poll your Political Science professor.

Answer 3

I agree... except #1... I believe the answer is A... a well constructed polling sample will be a random sample.... but it best reflects the characteristics of an entire population.  If you did a study to count spots on frogs and went to 3000 different ponds and collected 100 frogs from each from different areas of each pond and counted the spots on each frog then averaged them, you would have characteristics of an entire population.  You did get a random sample, however it reflects the characteristics of an entire population... in this case the average number of spots.