Economists Calculate Many Price Indexes

question 61

Multiple Choice

Economists calculate many price indexes:

• A) to capture a complete picture of how price changes are affecting the economy.
• B) to see how the prices of different groups of goods are changing.
• C) to measure how different groups of people in the economy are being affected by changing prices.
• D) All of these are true.

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