In an example of restaurant location on an island, if the number of people on the island doubled, the number of restaurants
A)Would stay the same
B)Would double
C)Would halve
D)Would increase by a factor of $\sqrt { 2 }$

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The number of restaurants would increase by a factor of $\sqrt{2}$ because the relationship between population and the number of restaurants is typically sublinear, meaning the number of restaurants grows at a slower rate than the population.

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