Explanation:

- Option 1: Poor and non-poor

- The poverty line is typically used to distinguish between those who are considered poor and those who are not.

- It is a threshold that helps identify individuals or families who do not have enough income to meet basic needs.

- Correct Answer: This is the alternative that describes what a poverty line typically separates.

- Option 2: More poor and less poor

- This option suggests a distinction between varying degrees of poverty.

- While poverty lines do not typically differentiate between levels of poverty, they merely separate the poor from the non-poor.

- Option 3: Poor and very poor

- Similar to option 2, this implies different degrees within the category of poor.

- A poverty line does not usually categorize people into poor and very poor, just poor or not poor.

- Option 4: Transient and chronic poor

- This refers to the duration or persistence of poverty but not what a standard poverty line defines.

- Poverty lines do not differentiate based on the transient nature of poverty.

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