ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
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ISBN: 9780190931919
Author: NEWNAN
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The table below is extracted from HappylandRepublic, Bureau of Statistics records for 2019-2020. Use the information in this table to answer the questions that follow.

 

Items

Base year 2019

2020

 

 

Production

Price

Production

Price

Used cloth (units)

4,000

50.00

5,000

60.00

Components used tractor factory production (units)

8,000

500.00

11,000

1,200.00

Cloth (units)

8,000

25.00

12,000

30.00

Beef gifts during cultural festival (Kg)

1,500

2.00

1,700

3.00

Milk (litres)

5,000

1.30

7,000

2.50

Computers (Units)

2,000

500.00

2,500

600.00

Printers (Units)

500

300.00

400

355.00

Raw materials for car assembling plant (Units)

4,500

250.00

4,450

300.00

 

1. Calculate HappylandRepublic’s nominal GDP, real GDP in 2020. Also, calculate the GDP deflator if 2019 is used as the base year.                

 

2. Double counting must be avoided when measuring GDP. State and examine four (4) transactions that are excluded from GDP to avoid overstating the size of the economy of a nation.                      

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1) Real GDP of 2020 ( Base year = 2019)

Production  Price Total
5000 50 250,000
11000 500 55,00,000
12000 25 300,000
1700 2 3400
7000 1.30 9100
2500 500 1250,000
400 300 120,000
4450 250 11,12,500

Real GDP = $8545000

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