Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

Over a course of days, the bank went from apparent strength to bankruptcy. Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank. It had financed the Napoleonic wars, the Louisiana purchase, and the Erie Canal. Barings was the Queen's bank.

Select from:
(a). Yes
(b). It's impossible to say
(c). No
Hypothesis: Barings was founded before 1750.



(b).