The Shape of a Country's Population Pyramid

question 44

Multiple Choice

The shape of a country's population pyramid

• A) is determined primarily by its crude birth rate.
• B) has no correlation to its crude death rate.
• C) cannot be used to estimate the country's dependency rate.
• D) cannot be used to estimate the country's sex ratio.
• E) is determined primarily by the combination of its crude birth rate and its crude growth rate.

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Definitions:

Variances

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T-distribution

A probability distribution that is used to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.

Degrees of Freedom

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