NCERT says that nearly 45 to 50 million medical terminations of pregnancy are carried out in the…
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NCERT says that nearly to million medical terminations of pregnancy are carried out in the world in a year. It says that this is about of all the pregnancies that are conceived in a year.
- If million terminations are carried out, how many million pregnancies are conceived in the year?
- If million are carried out, how many million pregnancies are conceived?
- In the case of million terminations, how many million conceived pregnancies do not end in a termination?
Need a reminder? The key ideaShow
Medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) is considered relatively safe up to the first trimester, which is weeks of pregnancy. NCERT says that the to million MTPs of a year are about of all conceived pregnancies. Amniocentesis tests the amniotic fluid, and a law bans its use for finding the sex of the child. A sex ratio is the number of females for every males.
The worked solution
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Given. Terminations are of the conceived pregnancies. million and million terminations.
Plan. Multiply by to get the total, then subtract.
Step 1. The first case. million pregnancies.
Step 2. The second case. million pregnancies.
Step 3. The rest. million pregnancies do not end in a termination.
Answer: million; million; million.
Check. , which agrees with the statement.
What if? The newer estimate, about million induced abortions a year, is about in every pregnancies. Then the total would be about million pregnancies.
Source. NCERT (2023), Biology Class XII, chapter 3. Bearak et al. (2020), The Lancet Global Health, for the newer estimate.
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