1. What phrase is represented by the initials "Wecskaop?"
2. Are the number of births each day and the number of deaths each day equal at this time?
3. On average, how many births occur on an average day?
4. How can these numbers be made to tell us our rate of growth?
5. About how much larger does our population become each day? Each hour?
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6. At the present time, each hour, one baby is born to "replace" every person who dies. And then, an extra babies are born.
7. Approximately how many persons are added to our existing population each minute? If we build classrooms designed for 25 students per classrooms must we build every 60 seconds? Are you sure? Point of discussion- How much do such new classrooms cost? Since the babies will not be paying for them? How?
8. The two "homework" riddles help us understand the big difference between a and a !
9. It is important to know how really large a "billion" is because that is how many additional people we are adding to our population every .
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