The Consumer Price Index

question 48

Multiple Choice

The consumer price index:

• A)measures the increase in the cost of the market basket relative to the cost in a given base year.
• B)is always 100 in the base year.
• C)helps us understand how the cost of living today compares with the cost of living at some time in the past.
• D)All of these statements are true.

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