o, once compound words are closed or hyphenated they are counted as one word. If the compound word is open, e.g., "post office," it is counted as two words.
She could argue that you don't need to sell the same thing every year and therefore, we could all try something different this year, not just candy.
She also could argue that candies are not healthy and it's time to distance ourselves from them for now.
The best argument that she could pull off would be, if that was really the case, if fruits were easier and more profitable to sell. By far, if that was the argument, they would all sell fruit easily.
During a project concerning words in digitized books, researchers estimated a total of 1,022,000 words and they also said that this number would rapidly increase by several thousands in a year!
but, when you see a number like this, you have to keep in mind that these include different forms of the same word and some of these words may be archaic (referred to words that are not in modern day use)
according to the options given, the best answer would be c) 1,000,000
Uncertainty - Apex, hope this helps