Given the Following Information, What Is the Value of the Advance/decline

question 45

Multiple Choice

Given the following information, what is the value of the advance/decline line on the third day of this 3-day period? $\begin{array}{c}\begin{array}{r}\\\\\text {Day 1}\\\text {Day 2}\\\text {Day 3}\\\end{array}\begin{array}{lll}\underline{\text {Issues}}\\\underline{\text {Advancing}}\\1804\\1,470\\1,524\end{array}\begin{array}{lll}\underline{\text {Issues}}\\\underline{\text {Declining}}\\1,638\\1.952\\1,711\end{array}\end{array}$

• A) - 503
• B) - 482
• C) - 316
• D) + 497
• E) + 518

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