The Consumer Price Index Measures Changes in

question 90

Multiple Choice

The consumer price index measures changes in

• A)the prices of all goods and services
• B)the prices of goods that are sold
• C)the total cost of a specific market basket of consumer goods and services
• D)the total costs of all goods and services
• E)the total costs of goods and services purchased by firms

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Definitions:

Verbs

A class of words that denote action, occurrence, or a state of being.

Function Morpheme

A morpheme that, while adding such content as time, mode, individuation, and evidentiality, also serves a grammatical purpose (e.g., the suffixes -s and -er, or the connecting words and or if).

Content Morpheme

A morpheme that carries the main semantic and referential content of a sentence. In English content morphemes are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs.

Content Phoneme

The smallest unit of sound that can change the meaning of a word, emphasizing the informational component of speech sounds.