Imagine a line graph showing two lines. Line A displays the mean number of hours per week spent in out-of-home employment by married women over the past several decades. Line B displays the mean number of hours spent on housework each week by married women over the past several decades. Based on your text's discussion, which of the following is probably TRUE?
A) The slope of Line A is positive and the slope of Line B is 0 or negative.
B) The slopes of the two lines are more or less equivalent.
C) The slope of Line A is less than that of Line B .
D) The slopes of both lines are negative.

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The slope of Line A is positive because the mean number of hours per week spent in out-of-home employment by married women has generally increased over the past several decades. The slope of Line B is 0 or negative because the mean number of hours spent on housework each week by married women has either remained stable or decreased in the same period.

Imagine a Line Graph Showing Two Lines