Recall the Application About the Value of the Minimum Wage

question 71

Multiple Choice

Recall the Application about the value of the minimum wage between 1974 and 2007 and the impact
inflation has on the real minimum wage to answer the following question(s) . The following table is from
the Application. $\begin{array}{|l|l|l|}\hline&1974&2007\\\hline\text { Minimum wage per hour } & \$ 2.00 & \$ 5.85 \\\hline \text { Weekly income from minimum wage } & \$ 80.00 & \$ 234.00 \\\hline \text { Cost of a standard basket of goods } & \$ 47.00 & \$ 202.00 \\\hline \text { Number of baskets per week } & 1.70 & 1.16\\\hline\end{array}$

-Refer to the table above. By what percentage did the federal minimum wage increase from 1974 to 2007?

• A)65.81 percent
• B)192.5 percent
• C)222.3 percent
• D)292.5 percent