Besides Measuring Change in the Prices of Goods and Services

question 20

Multiple Choice

Besides measuring change in the prices of goods and services, the consumer price index has a number of other applications such as:

• A) to determine real disposable personal income.
• B) to deflate sales or other data series.
• C) to find the purchasing power of the dollar.
• D) all of these

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