The Consumer Price Index

question 91

Multiple Choice

The consumer price index:

• A) measures the increase in the cost of the market basket relative to the cost in a given base year.
• B) is always 100 in the final year of measurement.
• C) helps us understand why the cost of living today compares with the cost of living at some time in the past.
• D) is a perfect measure of how prices change for all goods and services in the economy.

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