The Current Consumer Price Index Is

question 91

Multiple Choice

The current consumer price index is

• A) a cost-of-goods index.
• B) a true cost-of-living measure.
• C) based on a changing bundle of goods and services from one period to the next.
• D) calculated by dividing the market basket's cost in the base period by its cost in the current period.

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