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Figure: Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate
-(Figure: Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate) Look at the figure Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate. The distance between each labeled point on the horizontal axis is one year. 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 
-(Figure: Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate) Look at the figure Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate. The distance between each labeled point on the horizontal axis is one year. 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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The unemployment rate was increasing between 1/2001 and 1/2002, as the line is going up, and it was decreasing between 1/1999 and 1/2000, as the line is going down.

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