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Among full-time workers, women aged twenty-five to forty-four earn 77 percent as much as comparably aged men. Among people approaching retirement age (forty-five to sixty-four years) women earn ________ percent as much as men in the same age category.
 
  a. 34
  b. 54
  c. 74
  d. 94

Question 2

In 2012, about what percentage of people over the age of sixty-five in the United States was living below the official poverty line?
 
  a. 3 percent
  b. 9 percent
  c. 19 percent
  d. 24 percent



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Answer to Question 1

(Answer: c)

Answer to Question 2

(Answer: b)



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