Which of the following best describes the main difffrence between scarcity and a shortage

Even though you didn't post the options so we can do the ressearch, the definitons of both words arre:

shortage - when consumers want more than what producers are willing to produce at a price.

scarcity - there are not enough goods and services for everybody to have everything that he or she wants. There are a lack of products, they are not enough for the population

i know social security wasn't one.

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it would be that mali has the worst literacy rate than the others