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robinn137

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Although some gains have been made in reducing the rate of malnourishment in some lower-income nations, about one billion people around the world are malnourished, and __________ percent of these are in Asia and the Pacific.
 
  a. 53
  b. 95
  c. 75
  d. 63

Question 2

Economist Thomas Malthus argued that the population would increase in a geometric (exponential) progression while the food supply would increase only by an arithmetic progression; thus, a __________ occurs.
 
  a. doubling effect b. positive check
 c. preventive check d. moral restraint



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

a



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