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$100 Question from Characters

Who gave the old lawn mower to the Lawn Boy? Why?

$100 Answer from Characters

His grandmother gave the lawn mower to the Lawn Boy for his birthday.

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$200 Question from Characters

Who was Pasqual?

$200 Answer from Characters

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Arnold hired Pasqual to get the workers to do the jobs he took and to organize the work they did.

$300 Question from Characters

Who suggested that the Lawn Boy trade mowing his lawn for shares of stock?

$300 Answer from Characters

Arnold suggested that the Lawn Boy trade mowing his lawn for shares of stock.

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$400 Question from Characters

Who was Joseph Powdermilk and how did he come into the story?

$400 Answer from Characters

Arnold invested in sports stock for Joseph Powdermilk, a heavyweight boxer who lived nearby. That meant the Lawn Boy was sponsoring him and would split his winnings.

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$500 Question from Characters

How did Rock cause problems?

$500 Answer from Characters

Rock threatened to harm Pasqual's workers if he didn't pay him. Rock planned to take over the lawn mowing business.

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$100 Question from The Story

What happened that suddenly got the Lawn Boy so many customers?

$100 Answer from The Story

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The man who had been mowing the lawns had to quit suddenly.

$200 Question from The Story

At first, what limited the Lawn Boy's lawn mowing

business?

$200 Answer from The Story

The Lawn Boy could only manage to mow 3 lawns a day by himself.

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$300 Question from The Story

What was the first stock Arnold bought for the Lawn Boy? Why did it suddenly grow in value?

$300 Answer from The Story

The coffin stock suddenly grew in value when investors learned that they owned cheap resources (hardwood forest) for their products.

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$400 Question from The Story

How was Arnold able to get all of the Lawn Boy's lawns mowed every week?

$400 Answer from The Story

Arnold hired Pasqual to help. Pasqual hired workers to help him and soon they were mowing the yards for the Lawn Boy and giving Pasqual half of what they got.

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$500 Question from The Story

What caused the problem in the story? Who solved it?

$500 Answer from The Story

Rock caused the problem in the story when he tried to take over the Lawn Boy's business by force. Joseph Powdermilk, the Lawn Boy's prize fighter, solved the problem by using more force on Rock.

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$100 Question from Vocabulary

If you were day-trading what would you be doing?

Pages 18-19

$100 Answer from Vocabulary

If I were day-trading, I would be buying and selling shares of stock in the stock market.

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$200 Question from Vocabulary

The Lawn Boy made up the word ginormous. What synonym could he have used instead?

p. 31

$200 Answer from Vocabulary

The Lawn Boy might have said enormous or huge as synonyms for ginormous.

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$300 Question from Vocabulary

p. 34

What was inefficient about Pasqual and his men meeting at Arnold's house every day?

$300 Answer from Vocabulary

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Meeting at Arnold's house was inefficient because it wasted the workers' time when they could have been working on their jobs. It was more efficient for Louis to take the Lawn Boy around to collect the money as they worked.

$400 Question from Vocabulary

Page 49

How would you diversify your stock?

$400 Answer from Vocabulary

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To diversify my stock, I would reinvest my money in safe stocks so when one goes down, another might go up.

$500 Question from Vocabulary

Page 24

How could you become an entrepreneur?

$500 Answer from Vocabulary

I could become an entrepreneur by starting my own business.

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$100 Question from Stock Market

How can you MAKE MONEY by buying shares in a company in the stock market?

Page 19

$100 Answer from Stock Market

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If the company does well, the value of my shares increases. Then, I would sell my shares to someone else at a price higher than my purchase price.

$200 Question from Stock Market

Page 19

How can you LOSE money by buying shares in a company in the stock market?

$200 Answer from Stock Market

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If the company does NOT do well, the value of my shares goes down. Then, if I sell my shares to someone else at a price lower than my purchase price, I would lose some of the money I invested.

$300 Question from Stock Market

If you bought 10 shares of a stock for $.50 each, how much would you be investing?

$300 Answer from Stock Market

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If I bought 10 shares of a stock for $.50 each, I would be investing $5.

$400 Question from Stock Market

If your 10 shares of $.50 stock went up $.10 a share, how much would you make?

$400 Answer from Stock Market

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If my 10 shares of $.50 stock went up $.10 a share, I would make $1.

$500 Question from Stock Market

If your 10 shares of $.50 stock lost half of their value, how much would you have lost?

$500 Answer from Stock Market

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If my 10 shares of $.50 stock lost half of their value, I would have lost $2.50 of my $5 investment.

$100 Question from Investments

How would the Lawn Boy get the money he made in his investments?

$100 Answer from Investments

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The Lawn Boy could get the money he made in his investments by selling all the investments and getting a check.

$200 Question from Investments

Page 49

In the story, why did the Lawn Boy's investment in Walleye, the software company, grow so much?

$200 Answer from Investments

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Walleye's new Internet system swept the country, so the stock went way up.

$300 Question from Investments

What were the capital gains that the Lawn Boy had to pay tax on?

Page 49

$300 Answer from Investments

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The capital gains that the Lawn Boy had to pay tax on were the profits he made from his first investments.

$400 Question from Investments

Why couldn't the Lawn Boy invest his money himself?

Page 50

$400 Answer from Investments

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The Lawn Boy couldn't invest his money himself because he was too young.

$500 Question from Investments

How was Arnold an unusual person?

$500 Answer from Investments

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Arnold was an unusually honest person. He was willing to use his expertise to help a 12-year-old make a lot money in the stock market. He was unusually lucky. He was brilliant in his business sense.

Final Liter-GQuestion

As the prize fighter's sponsor who shared half of his earnings, how much would the Lawn Boy have made if Joseph Powdermilk won a purse of $12,000?

Final Liter-G Answer

If Joseph Powdermilk won a purse of $12,000, the Lawn Boy would have received $6,000.