To conform to Benford's Law,a number series must approximately follow a
A) geometric sequence.
B) arithmetic sequence.
C) Fibonacci sequence.
D) decreasing sequence.

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Benford's Law predicts that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading digit is likely to be small. For example, the number 1 appears as the leading digit about 30% of the time, much more often than 9, which appears less than 5% of the time. This distribution of leading digits is logarithmic, and a geometric sequence (where each term is a constant multiple of the previous one) is the closest match among the options given, as it can reflect the exponential growth patterns and scale invariance that are characteristic of Benford's Law.

To Conform to Benford's Law,a Number Series Must Approximately Follow