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Subject: a market basket of goods
Category: Business and Money > Economics
Asked by: skeeter1-ga
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Posted: 08 May 2003 09:28 PDT
Expires: 07 Jun 2003 09:28 PDT
Question ID: 201166
If a market basket of goods cost $125.00 in the base year and $125.00
in the base year and $250.00 in a later year, the price index in the
later year would be correctly expressed as
a. 125
b. 250
c. 200
d. 50
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Subject: Re: a market basket of goods
Answered By: omnivorous-ga on 08 May 2003 09:59 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
c. 200

For an authorative description of price indexes, including an
inflation calculator, see:
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
"What is a dollar worth?"
http://minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/

Google search strategy:
CPI + "price index" + "base year"

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA
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