Which variable is most important for solving the following problem? A company has 95,000 shares of stock to sell. A stockbroker decides to buy 100 shares of stock for each of her clients. After her purchase, 75,000 shares of stock remain. How many clients does the stockbroker have? A. The number of clients the stockbroker has. B. The number of shares bought for each client. C. The price of one share.

Answer: The most important variable to solve this problem is A. the number of customers the stockbroker has. The information given allows us to calculate this variable by using the other information provided.

Here's how you can calculate the number of customers the stockbroker has:

1. First, we determine the total number of shares the stockbroker bought. We can do this by subtracting the number of shares remaining (75,000) from the total number of shares the company had originally (95,000). So, 95,000 - 75,000 = 20,000 shares bought by the stockbroker.

2. Now that we know the stockbroker bought 20,000 shares, and we know she bought 100 shares for each of her clients, we can calculate the number of clients by dividing the total shares bought by the number of shares per client:

Number of customers = Total shares bought by stockbroker / Number of shares bought per customer Number of customers = 20,000 / 100 Number of customers = 200

Thus, the stockbroker has 200 clients.