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If my nominal wages go up 5% this year and inflation is 2% this year, what happened?
a) All of the choices are correct.
b) I experience an increase in my both my nominal income and in my real income.
c) My nominal wages increased more than the increase in the overall
d) My real wages increased by approximately 3%
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