I don't find the question "the profit of a company changed from what % from 2002 to 2003 " to be meaningful English. When something 'changes from x to y', and you ask what it 'changed from', then you're asking for the value of x. Applied to this question, it's asking for the company's percent profit in 2002, something we clearly don't have enough information to find.
So taking the question literally, that's how I read it - that's a different interpretation from both of the interpretations used in responses above. I'm absolutely certain that my reading is not the interpretation intended by the question designer, but without knowing what the question means, it's obviously pretty difficult to answer - it's really a game of 'guess the intention of the question designer' rather than a math problem. If the wording in the original post is the same as in the original source, I'd suggest working from better-written materials.
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