The Price of a Box of Chalk Has Increased from $.89

question 41

Multiple Choice

The price of a box of chalk has increased from $.89 to $1.39 over a ten-year period. What index number would represent the change in price over the ten-year period?

• A) 150.0
• B) 156.2
• C) 136.0
• D) 142.0
• E) 148.2

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Definitions:

Process Costing Systems

Accounting methods used to allocate production costs to products or services in continuous processes, where the products are indistinguishable from each other.

Repetitive Products

Goods that are mass-produced, usually on an assembly line, with little variation in design for each unit produced.

Opening Work In Process

The value of the products that were in the process of being manufactured at the beginning of an accounting period.

Prior Process Costs

Costs that have been incurred in earlier stages of the production process and are carried forward into subsequent stages.