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A high school guidance counselor wants to find the probability that students who study geometry as freshmen will go on to study calculus before graduating. To do this, he has constructed a table, shown below, which shows the number of students who study geometry as freshmen in a given year, and the number of those students who study calculus before graduating.

Year
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
Geometry Students
680
577
822
743
859
804
Calculus Students
391
336
512
374
465
361

Which year had the highest experimental probability that a freshman studying geometry would take a calculus class before graduation?
a.
2001
b.
2002
c.
2003
d.
2004

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Compute Calculus ÷ Geometry for each year:
- 2000: 391/680 = 0.575
- 2001: 336/577 ≈ 0.582
- 2002: 512/822 ≈ 0.623
- 2003: 374/743 ≈ 0.503
- 2004: 465/859 ≈ 0.541
- 2005: 361/804 ≈ 0.449

The highest experimental probability is in 2002. Answer: b.