According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in Country A has 100,000 people, how many people will live in Country A's fourth-largest city?

80,000
10,000
75,000
50,000
25,000

Question

According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in Country A has 100,000 people, how many people will live in Country A's fourth-largest city?

80,000
 10,000
 75,000
 50,000
 25,000

Seafoam · Answer

I chose the last option, correct?

Seafoam · Answer

@AZ

JamesTDG · Answer

From varsitytutors.com:
"The rank-size rule states that the nth largest city in a given country will have 1/n of the population of the largest city in that country."

JamesTDG · Answer

(forgot to include the division symbol)

JamesTDG · Answer

so, the population count is 100k, the rank is 4th, 4 is our n. So, what is 1/4 of 100,000?

Seafoam · Answer

25,000? Which is the one I chose

JamesTDG · Answer

yep.