What is meant by a hypothesis? a. a natural phenomenon that requires explanation b. an explanation for a phenomenon that makes a prediction c. a tentative understanding of a natural phenomenon d. a pseudoscientific idea e. a historical theory that has been proved inaccurate?

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.