Questions and Answers, Selling a house tosh

                                            Questions

[A] In all low-income countries across the world today, how many girls finish primary school?

1. 20% 2. 40% 3. 60%

[B] Of the world population what percentage live in low-income countries?

[C] Where does the majority of the world population live?

1. Low-Income countries 2. Middle-income countries 3. High–income countries

[D] In the last 20 years, the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has….

 1. Almost doubled 2. Remained more or less the same 3. Almost halved

[E] What is the life expectancy of the world today?

1. 50 years 2. 60 years 3. 70 years

[F] There are 2 billion children in the world today, aged 0 to 15 years old. How many children will there be in the year 2100 according to the UN?

1. 4 billion 2. 3 billion 3. 2 billion

[G] How did the number of deaths per year from natural disasters change over the last hundred years?

1. More than doubled 2. Remained about the same 3. Decreased to less than half

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Answers: 

Statistics compiled by the World Bank and the United Nations.

[A] 3. 60% of girls in all low-income countries across the world today finish primary school.

[B] 9% of the world population live in low-income countries.

[C] 2. The majority live in Middle-income countries. Combining middle and high-income countries makes 91per cent of the world population.

[D] 3. Over the last 20 years the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has almost halved.

[E] 3. The average life expectancy across the world today is 70.

[F] 3. UN experts expect that in the year 2100 there will be 2 billion children, the same number as today.

[G] 3. The number of deaths from natural disasters has dropped far below half.

(See Factfulness: 10 Reasons Why We’re Wrong About the World – Hans Rosling)


                             Selling Your Property

Old Houses, the Stade, Folkstone, Kent Cornelia Brockman (Active 19th C)

Photo Credit: Folkestone Museum [CC BY-NC-SA]

Dress the rooms like a glossy magazine stylist to reflect the ‘lifestyle’ of your property: croissants and coffee in the kitchen; wine or champagne in the dining room or on the patio table; fruit in a bowl on the counter (lemons and limes work best); luxury toiletries and fluffy white towels in the bathrooms; church candles in the fireplace; glossy magazines on the coffee table and of course, fresh flowers throughout!

(Bonners and Babbingtons, Estate Agent)

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