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O-LevelGeographyEconomic developmentOct/Nov 2015Paper 2 Q830 Marks

A large new shop was opened in the CBD of a town in the UK. Students from a local school decided to investigate the impact of the shop on the town centre. Fig. 13 (Insert) shows the location of the shop in the CBD of the town. The students agreed on the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: Opening the new shop has had a positive economic impact on the town centre. Hypothesis 2: Opening the new shop has had a negative impact on the environment of the town centre.

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About This O-Level Geography Question

Topic

This structured question tests Economic development in O-Level Geography (syllabus code 2217). It is worth 30 marks.

Source

This question appeared in the Cambridge O-Level Geography Oct/Nov 2015 examination, Paper 2 Variant 3.

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