Identify the INCORRECT Statement Pertaining to Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)

question 136

Multiple Choice

Identify the INCORRECT statement pertaining to Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) .

• A) About 40 percent of all Americans live in the 20 largest CMSAs.
• B) MSAs are integrated economic and social units with large population nuclei.
• C) MSAs center on a city of 50,000 or more inhabitants and include bordering urban areas.
• D) MSAs with a population of below 50,000 inhabitants are called Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
• E) The U.S. Census Bureau reports data by MSA.

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Plot

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Parabola

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Second-Order Model

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