Which statement best describes the trends in the average weekly hours worked in the U.S. since 1850?
a. With the exception of wartime, the trend has been a pretty steady decline.
b. People in the U.S. work more now than they ever have.
c. With the fading of the labor movement in the early 1900s, the number of weekly hours went up steadily.
d. There have been wild fluctuations in the average number of weekly hours worked since 1850.
Question 2
When taking a bus trip from Boston to Washington, you notice that it is difficult to tell where one city begins and another ends. The suburbs seem just as crowded as the central cities, so that in the end it looks like one large city rather than many. From these observations you can conclude that you are traveling through:
a. metropolitan district
b. megalopolis
c. primary metropolitan statistical area
d. urbanized area
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