Table 15-5 -Refer to Table 15-5.Suppose the Table Above Illustrates the Values

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Table 15-5

-Refer to Table 15-5.Suppose the table above illustrates the values of real and potential GDP and the price level if the Fed does not vote to change their current policy to be more contractionary or expansionary.Suppose that the Fed uses an appropriate policy and is successful in keeping real GDP at potential in 2017.State whether each of the following will be higher or lower than if the Fed had taken no action:
a.Real GDP
b.Potential real GDP
c.The price level
d.The unemployment rate

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75th Percentile

A value below which 75% of the data points in a distribution fall, also known as the third quartile.

sample Data

Collected portions of data from a population used to infer or estimate characteristics of the entire population.

Covariance

A measure of how much two random variables change together.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; quantifies how much the values of a dataset deviate from the mean.