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1- Population of Brazil.
a- 198,739,269
2- Capital city and population
a- Brazilian 2,5 million
3- Infant mortality rate.
a- 22.5/1000
4- Average life expectancy.
a- 72,7 years
5- Brazil is the bigger country of South American, that don't speak spanish. Also, is bigger in arable land and population.
6- Language
a- Portuguese
7- Ethnicity
a- Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Arab, African and Indigenous people.
8- Religion
a- Roman Catholic (74%)
9- GDP
a - 1.573 trillion (2008)
10- Per capita income
a - 2.842.36 per person
11- Inflation rate.
a - 5%
12- Unemployment rate.
a - 5,26%
13- Arable land (percent)
a - 83%
14- Agricultural products.
a - Coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice,corn,sugarcane,cocoa.
15- Industries.
a- Textiles, shoes, chemicals,cement,ethanol,lumber,iron,tin,steel,etc
16- Literacy rate.
a - 88% of adult population
17- International disputes.
a- Amazon
18-Exports
a- Precious metal, cotton, crude oil, footwear, wallboard,stone,sand,etc.
19- Imports
a- Computer assessories, plastics,chemical ferlizers,pharmaceutical preparation,etc
20- Major trading partners
a - The U.S.
21- Natural resources.
a- Iron ore, manganese, bauxite, nickel, granite, limestone, clay, sand, tin , gold,etc
22- Growth rate of economy(percent)
a - 1/2%
23- Number of internet users.
a - 67,510,400 3,9%

3- comparison
a- There isn't as high an unemployment rate in Brazil as in the U.S.
b- The population of U.S is bigger than in the Brazil.
c- There isn't as high as much arable land in U.S as in the Brazil.


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Ilda,

In your comparison sentences (3), A is correct. Let's look at B and C:

b- The population of U.S is bigger than in the Brazil.

Correction: The population of the U.S. is bigger than that of Brazil.

c- There isn't as high as much arable land in U.S as in the Brazil.

Correction: There isn't as much arable land in the U.S. as in Brazil.