Question

What can the reader conclude from the graph?

Answer 1

The reader can conclude from the graph:

B. A company offering physical therapy most likely has only an 80% chance of surviving for at least two years.

Analyze the yellow line (healthcare industry), and it is at about 80% survival at two years.

Answer 2

The second alternative is correct (B).

This is a question of graphic interpretation. The question is about the survival rate of companies for two industrial sectors: health care (yellow line) and the rest of the other industries (green line).

The interpretation is very simple. Just look at the axis of the orders (vertical) the percentage of survival of the industry and the axis of the abscissa (horizontal) the amount of years that the industries last.

Physiotherapy companies are part of the service industry, so we should look at the yellow line. It can be observed that over the course of two years the yellow line is still above 80%, as stated in question B.

In other words, a physiotherapy company has an 80% probability of being in operation after two years of activity.