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ABy printing invoices for the accounts department
BBy analysing big data for insight into customers
CBy storing archived email for legal purposes
DBy running word processing for many employees
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. By analysing big data for insight into customers
1. Supercomputers play a critical role in security research, scientific research, demographic studies, and weather and environmental studies.
2. Businesses put them to work by analysing big data to gain insights into customer behavior.
3. They also use them to improve inventory and production management and for product design.
4. Invoicing, archiving, and word processing are routine jobs that ordinary office machines handle.
_Source: OpenStax Introduction to Business (CC BY 4.0), Ch 13 "Using Technology to Manage Information", section 13.1 Transforming Businesses through Information_
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