Based on his analysis of population, the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus argued that:
A. food supply increases in an arithmetic progression, whereas population expands by a geometric progression.
B. food supply increases in a geometric progression and population expands by an arithmetic progression.
C. both food supply and population increase in an arithmetic progression.
D. both food supply and population increase in a geometric progression.
Answer: A
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