The percentage of online shoppers
A)didn't begin to show promise until 2011 when online security measures improved.
B)stabilized in 2012 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 and then plummeted when Congress passed a new online state sales tax collection law in 2013.

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The passage states that the percentage of online shoppers has grown year after year and is expected to continue to increase over the next few years. Option A is incorrect as it states that online shopping didn't begin to show promise until 2011. Option B is incorrect as it states that the stabilization occurred in 2012 due to internet penetration. Option C is incorrect as it states that the growth declined sharply after the dot-com bubble burst. Option E is incorrect as it states that the percentage of online shoppers plummeted due to a state sales tax collection law in 2013.

The Percentage of Online Shoppers