Professor Anderson believes that Noah's failing grade on the examination was due to the fact that he simply does not have the intellectual makeup to do well in her course. Professor Anderson is making a(n) attribution.

Say a certain manufacturing industry has 63.1 thousand jobs in 2008, but is expected to decline at an average annual rate of 1.7 thousand jobs per year from 2008 to 2018. assuming this holds true, what will be this industry’s percent change from 2008 to 2018? a. 70% b. -27% c. -17% d. -75%