I'mastart-up corp. issued and sold 2,500,000 common voting shares during its first public stock sale. what is the minimum number of shares needed to be able to elect a new director to the board?
a.1.275 million
b.1.25 million
c.1.225 million
d.2.5 million

In terms of the "great wheel of science", statistics are central to the research process (a) only between the hypothesis phase and the observation phase (b) only between the observation phase and the empirical generalization phase (c) only between the theory phase and the hypothesis phase (d) only between the empirical generalization phase and the theory phase