If You Were Required to Write a Paper for Your

question 169

Multiple Choice

If you were required to write a paper for your history class (or a report for your job) in which you were using dollar valued data across different years,you would

• A)use a price index to remove the effects of inflation to have reliable data measuring changes in the real value of things.
• B)never attempt to correct for inflation because inflation is a key indicator of economic activity.
• C)tell your teacher or boss that you never learned how to correct data for inflation.
• D)assume that prices did not change during the period you are studying.

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