I believe the answer is: The national government was unable to collect taxes.
This mean that is it is impossible for the central government to projected the amount of federal budget that they have for the following years. This make matters a lot more difficult for the federal government to plan how many programs they could handle based on their budget.
That's a really nice quote. My personal favorite is "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving" -Albert Einstein
I believe the correct answer is gender identity disorder.
Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) describes a phenomenon in which physically healthy people feel the constant desire for an impairment of their body. In other words, they are people who want the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or who want paralysis. In some articles, this disorder is compared to gender dysphoria, studying their similarities and differences, and arriving at the conclusion that BIID may be a new type of identity disorder.
The answer in the first sentence above is hypothesis because it is defined as having to state a prediction or conjecture in regards about an experiment whereas the second sentence' answer is experimental question because researchers tend to state what they plan to do in regards of their investigation and they do not apply any predictions in the experiment.
