Between 1900 and the Year 2000, How Did the Population

question 8

Multiple Choice

Between 1900 and the year 2000, how did the population of industrialized nations change in comparison to Africa, Asia, and Latin America?

• A) Industrialized nations will account for less of the world population than it did in 1900 and rank last.
• B) Industrialized nations will account for a lesser percentage of the population but be second only to Asia.
• C) Industrialized nations will double in population due to legal and illegal immigration.
• D) There will be no change in the population of industrialized nations relative to Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Definitions:

Normal Populations

A population distribution that follows a normal (Gaussian) curve, where most observations cluster around the mean, and probabilities for values can be calculated using the curve.

Independent Sample

A sample that is selected from a population in such a way that the entities are not related or do not affect each other.

Sampling Distribution

The likelihood distribution of a specific statistic derived from a random selection.

Independent Sample

Samples that are collected in such a way that the selection of one sample does not influence the selection of another, ensuring that observations between samples are not related.