Table 24-4 Lee's Expenditures on Food for Three Consecutive Years, Along with Along

question 157

Multiple Choice

Table 24-4
Lee's expenditures on food for three consecutive years, along with other values, are presented in the following table.
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-Refer to Table 24-4. Suppose Will's Year 1 food expenditures in Year 3 dollars amounted to $9,590. Suppose also that the real interest rate in Year 3 was 6 percent. Then, in Year 3,

• A)the inflation rate was 14 percent and the nominal interest rate was 8 percent.
• B)the inflation rate was 20 percent and the nominal interest rate was 14 percent.
• C)the inflation rate was 14 percent and the nominal interest rate was 20 percent.
• D)the inflation rate was 20 percent and the nominal interest rate was 8 percent.

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