Microsoft studies correlations between its successful workers and the schools and companies they arrived from, an application of business analytics.

a. True

b. False

The statement about "Microsoft studies correlations between its successful workers and the schools and companies they arrived from, an application of business analytics" is true. The answer is letter B. An example is a paper called Diamonds in the Data Mine by Gary Loveman, the CEO of the Harah's gambling empire. He wanted to know how data-mining software was used to study numerous amounts of casino customer data to target profitable sponsors. So the statement above aids in the recruitment of these sponsors using data-mining software such as microsoft.