Questão de Inglês com gabarito

Most don't work anymore, but Americans age 70 and older have seen their share of collective wealth surge during the pandemic. As a group, they have accumulated more than $14trillioninadditionalnetworthsincetheend2019,basedonFederalReservedata.Theirshareofthecountr{y}^{\prime }swealthhasjumpedtoarecord30$5 trillion in equity gains. Close to 38% of the nation's corporate equities and mutual fund shares were held by people in that age group, the highest share on record in data going back to 1989. (Alex Tanzi. www.bnnbloomberg.ca, 2023. Adaptado.)

In the excerpt from the second paragraph "there are about 2.3 million more people over 70 in the country", the underlined word can be replaced, without meaning change, by