If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants, how many people live in the fifth largest city?
A) 50,000
B) 100,000
C) 200,000
D) 500,000
E) 5,000,000

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The rank-size rule suggests that the nth largest city in a country will be 1/n the size of the largest city. Therefore, the fifth largest city would be 1/5 the size of the largest city, which is 1,000,000 / 5 = 200,000.

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