Life expectancy is the

A. Probability that an individual will survive infancy
B. Number of individuals in a population that survive in a given year
C. Number of years an individual of a certain age will probably live
D. Maximum life span that an individual of a given species could reach
E. All of these are descriptions of life expectancy


Answer: C

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