In this task, you're given a question, along with a context passage. The passage will not have a direct answer to the question, but can include some information and a clue for the answer. Assuming you can only obtain information about one entity in the passage, your job is to determine whether information from the passage can be used to answer the question. Indicate your choice as 'a' for Yes or 'b' for No.
Q: Question: What was the population of Reunion the year that Houellebecq was born? Passage:Houellebecq was born in 1956 on the French island of Reunion, the son of Lucie Ceccaldi, a French doctor born in Algeria of Corsican descent, and Rene Thomas, a ski instructor and mountain guide. He lived in Algeria from the age of five months until 1961, with his maternal grandmother. In a lengthy autobiographical article published on his website (now defunct), he states that his parents "lost interest in [his] existence pretty quickly", and at the age of six, he was sent to France to live with his paternal grandmother, a communist, while his mother left to live a hippie lifestyle in Brazil with her recent boyfriend. His grandmother's maiden name was Houellebecq, which he took as his pen name. Later, he went to Lycee Henri Moissan, a high school at Meaux in the north-east of Paris, as a boarder. He then went to Lycee Chaptal in Paris to follow preparation courses in order to qualify for grandes ecoles (elite schools). He began attending the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon in 1975. He started a literary review called Karamazov (named after Fyodor Dostoevsky's last novel) and wrote poetry.

A:
a