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Officials were asked to examine the likelihood of providing banking facilities in the area.

My book gave the below options to choose one from: 1. Probability 2. Possibility 3. Profit 4. no improvement

We have to compare the Bold part with the expressions formed by using (1),(2) and (3) and we need to choose an expression which is an improvement upon the bold part.

I am thinking it should be '2' but my book gave '3' as the answer. Please put your thoughts here. TIA.

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    Are the word choices intended to replace "likelihood" without changing the meaning? Or to explain the intent of the phrase?
    – user3169
    Sep 27, 2015 at 4:26
  • We have to compare the Bold part with the expressions formed by using (1),(2) and (3) and we need to choose an expression which is an improvement upon the bold part.
    – Abhi
    Sep 27, 2015 at 4:32
  • I would add this information to the question.
    – user3169
    Sep 27, 2015 at 4:53

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likelihood is basically the same as possibility in this context, so I would not call it an improvement.

I imagine the condition of "providing banking facilities" would be that they would make a profit. However the word to substitute would be profitability.

Officials were asked to examine the profitability of providing banking facilities in the area.

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