From the end of 2000 to the end of 2014, the S&P/MX Composite Index rose from 8934 to 14,632. If you had invested $50,000 in a portfolio of the shares of the companies in the Index at the end of 2000, what would the value of those shares have been at the end of 2014? (This calculation considers only the price appreciation of the original shares. It does not include additional growth in the portfolio's value resulting from the receipt and rein-vestment of dividends.)