Which of the Following Is Correct

question 43

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is correct?

• A)If developing countries limit career and educational opportunities for women,birth rates are likely to be lower.
• B)Growth rates in developed and developing countries are nearly the same.
• C)Historically,in periods where the rate of population growth was high,so was the rate of growth in world real GDP per person.
• D)None of the above is correct.

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Definitions:

Coefficient of Correlation

A numerical measure that indicates the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables.

Coefficient of Variation

A measure of relative variability computed as the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean, often expressed as a percentage.

Covariance

A measure indicating the extent to which two variables change together, signifying the direction of their linear relationship.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values, typically used to measure how spread out the numbers in a data set are.