Lifetime Income Is Distributed

question 146

Multiple Choice

Lifetime income is distributed

• A) less equally than annual income and less equally than measured wealth.
• B) less equally than annual income and more equally than measured wealth.
• C) more equally than annual income and less equally than measured wealth.
• D) more equally than annual income and more equally than measured wealth.

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Definitions:

Radioisotopes

Unstable isotopes that spontaneously emit radiation; also called radioactive isotopes.

Half-Life

The time required for half the atoms of a radioactive substance to decay or for a drug or other substance to lose half its pharmacologic, physiologic, or radiologic activity.

Potassium-40

A radioactive isotope of potassium used in dating geological materials, as it decays into argon-40 over a known period of time.

Carbon-14

A radioactive isotope of carbon used in dating organic materials and archaeological objects through radiocarbon dating methods.