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.
2000
Year
New
1998
781
1999
699
626
217
2001
730
264
2002
762
244
Profitable
311
205
If 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 200
b. 236
c. 247
d. 272