Relative poverty can be measured as:

a. the number of households with income below some fixed official standard
b. the cost of a minimum adequate nutritional diet for families of different sizes
c. a group of not necessarily related individuals who share a domicile and have low incomes
d. The economic and social gaps between those with access to technology and those without access


ANS: a

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