Choose the Word or Phrase in [ ] Which Will

question 15

Short Answer

Choose the word or phrase in [ ] which will correctly complete the statement. Select A for the first item, B for the second item, and C if neither item will correctly complete the statement.
-The average age of the American population is [decreasing | increasing].

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Definitions:

Battery

A tort involving non-consensual, harmful, or offensive physical contact with another person.

Assault

An act that intentionally puts another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact.

Self-Defense

A legal justification for the use of force to protect oneself or another from immediate harm.

Assault

An intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact.