When Alice Makes the Statement, "The Cost of Living Has

question 11

Multiple Choice

When Alice makes the statement, "The cost of living has increased 10 per cent over the past 10 years," she is

• A) making a normative statement.
• B) making a positive statement.
• C) facing the standard of living tradeoff.
• D) testing an economic model.

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