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-(Figure: Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate)Use Figure: Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate.The distance between each labeled point on the horizontal axis is one year,and the distance between each labeled point on the vertical axis is one percentage point of unemployment.Unemployment was _____ between 1/2001 and 1/2002 and _____ between 1/1999 and 1/2000.
A)increasing;decreasing
B)increasing;increasing
C)decreasing;increasing
D)decreasing;decreasing

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-(Figure: Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate)Use Figure: Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate.The distance between each labeled point on the horizontal axis is one year,and the distance between each labeled point on the vertical axis is one percentage point of unemployment.Unemployment was _____ between 1/2001 and 1/2002 and _____ between 1/1999 and 1/2000.
A)increasing;decreasing 
B)increasing;increasing 
C)decreasing;increasing 
D)decreasing;decreasing

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Between 1/2001 and 1/2002, the unemployment rate was increasing as indicated by a rise in the graph. Between 1/1999 and 1/2000, the unemployment rate was decreasing as shown by a downward trend in the graph.

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