Table 24-2 The Table Below Pertains to Pieway, an Economy in Which

question 210

Multiple Choice

Table 24-2
The table below pertains to Pieway, an economy in which the typical consumer's basket consists of 15 bushels of peaches and 10 bushels of pecans.
-Refer to Table 24-2. If 2012 is the base year, then the inflation rate in 2013 was

• A)23.5 percent.
• B)1.04 percent.
• C)10 percent.
• D)4.4 percent.

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