Otto and Marta live in a nation with a 15% poverty rate. Their household income is sufficient to pay for food, shelter, and basic needs with some funds available for other things their family wants. However, their household income is lower than 75% of the households in their nation. Otto believes that they are prosperous and not poor, but Marta believes that they are poor. Otto is defining poverty in _____ terms, and Marta is defining poverty in _____ terms.

a.absolute; relative

b.relative; absolute

c.relative, relative

d.relative; extreme