A researcher is studying a population with a unique age structure. An age-structured histogram he has developed over the course of several decades has undergone transformations in shape, from a pyramid shape to a roughly rectangular shape to an inverted pyramid shape (where the base is narrower than the top). How has this population changed over time?

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Eliza Pierce

3 June, 01:21

A researcher is studying a population with a unique age structure. An age-structured histogram he has developed over the course of several decades has undergone transformations in shape, from a pyramid shape to a roughly rectangular shape to an inverted pyramid shape (where the base is narrower than the top). How has this population changed over time?

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Dennis Leblanc · Answer 1

The population first grows, stabilizes, and then declines.

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A researcher is studying a population with a unique age structure. An age structured histogram he has developed over the course of several decades has undergone transformations in shape, from a pyramid shape to a roughly rectangular shape to an inverted pyramid shape (where the base is narrower than the top). The population first grows, stabilizes, and then declines.