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Question
Assertion (A): The rate at which a population can be expected to grow in the future can be assessed graphically by means of a population pyramid.
Reason (R): A triangular population pyramid is characteristic of a country whose population is stable, neither growing nor shrinking.
Options
Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true, and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true, but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.
Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are false.
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Solution
Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.
Explanation:
The assertion is true: a population pyramid can indicate likely future population growth. The reason is false because a triangular pyramid indicates an expanding population; a stable population has a more rectangular age structure.
