Stock Index Performance on November 26, 2007, the Dow Jones

question 68

Multiple Choice

Stock Index Performance On November 26, 2007, The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 12,743.40, which was down 237.44 that day. What was the return (in percent) of the stock market that day?

• A) -.02%
• B) +.02%
• C) -1.83
• D) +1.83%

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Definitions:

Booker T. Washington

An influential African American educator, author, and orator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his advocacy of the "Atlanta Compromise."

Vocational Education

A program of study that prepares individuals for specific trades, crafts, and careers at various levels from a trade, a craft, technicians, or a professional position in engineering, accountancy, nursing, medicine, and other healing arts, architecture, pharmacy, law etc.

Tuskegee Institute

A historically black college in Alabama established by Booker T. Washington to provide African Americans with educational and vocational training.