A community/public health nurse determines there are 200 persons in a particular community who are older than age 65, another 300 younger than 21, and about 1500 persons aged 21 to 65. What is that community's dependency ratio?

a. 1:3
b. 1:8.5
c. 1:9
d. Cannot be determined from the given data


ANS: A

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