Answer: 364 licks
Explanation:
A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
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The answer is most likely than, it is because the poor does not acquire large sum of money where in they could use to ensure safety in terms of their health. Such as having enough money to have regular check ups, vaccines or medicine. They would likely spend the money that they acquire to food and shelter because it is more essential to them. That is why they are prone to have or acquire diseases than the affluent.