Question

the articles of confederation created an official central government for the united states. the new central government replaced the continental congress and was called the confederation congress. unlike the united states government today, the central government under the articles of confederation only had one branch. the confederation congress, a group of representatives from each state, was completely responsible for governing. there was no president or court system. the following passage from the articles of confederation explains the representation of each state within the confederation congress. read the passage. then complete the sentence below. no state shall be represented in congress by less than two, nor more than seven members... while voting in the united states in congress assembled, each state shall have one vote. complete the sentence. under the articles of confederation, each state could have number of

Explanation:

The passage from the Articles of Confederation states "No state shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor more than seven members". So we need to identify the range of the number of representatives each state could have. The minimum is 2 and the maximum is 7, so it's a number between 2 and 7 (inclusive).

Answer:

Under the Articles of Confederation, each state could have a number of representatives between 2 and 7 (inclusive) (or "a number from two to seven, inclusive" or similar phrasing based on the context of the sentence completion, but since the sentence starts with "a number of", a concise way is "a number between 2 and 7 (inclusive)" or more precisely using the wording from the passage: "a number of representatives from two to seven (inclusive)" as per the clause "No state shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor more than seven members").