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Probability in the Business Setting

Question 10 • 2025-2026 GSP Mathematical Reasoning for Decision Making

A city keeps track of the number of new small businesses which open in any given year, as well as how many of those new businesses report profit in excess of their initial investment after one year’s time. An example of the data collected can be viewed in the table below.Year19981999200020012002New781699626730762Profitable311205217264244If 684 new small businesses opened in 2003, approximately how many of them could be expected to turn a profit in excess of their initial investment by 2004?a.200b.236c.247d.272

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