Calculate Happy Land Republic’s nominal GDP and real GDP in 2016 ii. Why does real GDP always defer from nominal GDP?

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The table below is extracted from Happy land Republic, Bureau of Statistics records
for 2018-2019. Use the information in this table to answer the questions that follow.

item  base year 2015 2016  
  production price production price
used car sales 5,000 2000.00 6,000 2,500
factories components sales 8,000 500.00 10,000 1200.00
cloth sales 8,000 20.00 14,000 35.00
beef sales 1,500 10.00 1,800 12.00
milk litres sales 5,000 1.30 6,000 2.50
computers sales 2000 500.00 2500 800.00
printers sales 500 300.00 400 355.00
raw materials for tractor assembling plant sales  4500 250.00 4450 300.00

i. Calculate Happy Land Republic’s nominal GDP and real GDP in 2016

ii. Why does real GDP always defer from nominal GDP?

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