Question 9.3

9.3 Academic good standing. To be in good standing at college, a student needs to maintain a certain grade point average (GPA). Typically, a student who falls below 2.0 is put on academic probation for at least a semester. At a local college, administrators wanted to increase the GPA to remain in good standing from 2.0 and reported that the anticipated increase of on probation students would be from 3% to 5% of the student body. Relatively speaking, the increase in the percentage of students at the college who would be on academic probation would be

  1. (a) 2% over the current figure.

  2. (b) 40% over the current figure.

  3. (c) 67% over the current figure.

  4. (d) We cannot determine the percentage increase because we do not know how many students attend the college.