Suppose That a Country's Population Is 30 Million and It

question 24

Multiple Choice

Suppose that a country's population is 30 million and it has a labour force of 15 million people. Assuming it has 1.35 million people unemployed, the country's unemployment rate is

• A)2.5 percent.
• B)3.3 percent.
• C)4.5 percent.
• D)6.7 percent.
• E)9.0 percent.

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Definitions:

Tautology

A statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form, independent of the content of the proposition.

Negation

The operation that takes a proposition to its opposite in truth value, often denoted by "not."

Biconditional

A logical statement in which both parts imply each other; it is true when both parts have the same truth value.

Tautologies

Statements that are true in every possible interpretation because they affirm by their structure, such as "either it will rain today or it won't."