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Chapter 22.A, Problem 5TY
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Calculate the real wage and the growth rate of money wage and real wage for each of the given years.
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Year
1984 1993 1997 2002 2008 2011 2015
1.00 1.25 1.50 2.00
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A slice of pizza should have cost $ in 2009 if it cost $1.00 in 1984 and prices had risen with the CPI.
(Round to the nearest cent as needed.)
Below are the values of the CPI for each year from 1992-1996. For each year, beginning with 1993,
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Year
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1992
1.40
1993
1.45
1994
1.48
1995
1.52
1996
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