For Your Purchasing Power to Stay the Same, Your Wages

question 24

Multiple Choice

For your purchasing power to stay the same, your wages must:

• A) increase faster than the rate of inflation.
• B) increase at the same rate as inflation.
• C) decrease as the rate of inflation increases.
• D) increase more slowly than the rate of inflation.

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