English

Araceli Burton

31 August, 03:55

Which sentence from the passage best shows the author's use of deductive

reasoning?

O

A. Put differently, the doubling time for this aggregate population is

21 years, comglied to 87 years for the U. S.

O

B. The people inside the lifeboats are doubling in numbers every 87

years; those swimming around outside are doubling, on the

average, every 35 years, more than twice as fast as the rich.

O

C. As of 1973, the U. S. had a population of 210 million people, who

were increasing by 0.8 percent per year.

O

D. And since the world's resources are dwindling, the difference in

prosperity between the rich and the poor can only increase.