If the unemployment rate is 9 percent and the natural rate of unemployment is 5 percent, then the:

A. frictional unemployment rate is 5 percent.
B. cyclical unemployment rate and the frictional unemployment rate together are 5 percent.
C. cyclical unemployment rate is 4 percent.
D. natural rate of unemployment will eventually increase.

C. cyclical unemployment rate is 4 percent.

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