Table 6.2 the Following Table Lists the Basket of Goods in the in the

question 100

Multiple Choice

Table 6.2
The following table lists the basket of goods in the
Consumer Price Index for the nation of Astro (Assume 2010 is the base year.)

-Using the information in Table 6.2, the inflation rate from 2010 to 2011 is about

• A) 26 percent.
• B) 38 percent.
• C) 42 percent.
• D) 49 percent.

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Definitions:

Increasing-Cost Industry

An industry in which expansion through the entry of new firms raises the prices firms in the industry must pay for resources and therefore increases their production costs.

Long-Run Supply Curve

As it applies to macroeconomics, a supply curve for which price, but not real output, changes when the demand curves shifts; a vertical supply curve that implies fully flexible prices.

Perfectly Elastic

Describes a situation in which the quantity demanded or supplied changes infinitely with any change in price.

Pure Competition

A market structure characterized by a large number of buyers and sellers dealing in perfectly substitutable goods or services.