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In which situation would it be wrong to draw a direct conclusion between population growth and poverty?

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Correct answer: When factors such as income, employment, education, and resource distribution also differ

Correct answer: A. Population growth by itself cannot prove that poverty has increased or decreased. Poverty is also influenced by income distribution, availability of jobs, education, health services, technology, prices, and access to land and other resources. Therefore, if these social and economic factors differ between places or periods, a direct conclusion would be unsafe. Option A is correct because it explicitly identifies the additional factors that may change the result. Option B is not correct because observing data over time usually improves comparison. Option C is not correct because births, deaths, and migration are the basic components used to measure population change; counting them does not itself make the conclusion wrong. Option D is not correct because knowing the two years helps calculate change, although it still does not explain poverty by itself. Memory cue: correlation is not causation—two trends moving together do not prove that one alone caused the other.

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Population GrowthPovertySocio-Economic FactorsPopulationGeographyClass 9 Mcq

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