During the 1960s, the proportion of teens in the U.S. population climbed steeply as a result of

A) increased immigration.
B) the baby boom that followed World War II.
C) more adults leaving the country.
D) higher casualties in the Vietnam War.


Answer: B

Psychology

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able to answer the scientific question representative of the population as large as possible easy to acquire

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