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question 19

Multiple Choice

There were 1.1 million women victimized by intimate partner violence in 1993.By 2010 that number was

• A)1.3 million women.
• B)1.5 million women.
• C)1.7 million women.
• D)879,264 women.
• E)509,000 women.

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