The Percentage of Online Shoppers

Multiple Choice

The percentage of online shoppers

A) didn't begin to show promise until 2007 when online security measures improved.
B) stabilized in 2009 when Internet penetration reached 98 percent of all U.S.households.
C) grew rapidly during 2003-2005 and then declined sharply when the "dot.com bubble" burst in 2006.
D) has grown year after year and is expected to continue to increase over the next few years.
E) grew slowly for the first three years,spiked dramatically in 2008-2009,but then slowed just as dramatically due to a downturn in the economy and the implementation of a new online state sales tax collection law passed by Congress.