The people on Coral Island buy only juice and cloth. The CPI market basket contains the quantities

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The people on Coral Island buy only juice and cloth. The CPI market basket contains the quantities bought in 2016. The average household spent $60 on juice and $30 on cloth in 2016 when the price of juice was $2 a bottle and the price of cloth was $5 a yard. In the current year, 2017, juice is $4 a bottle and cloth is $6 a yard. Calculate the CPI and the inflation rate in 2017.

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Foundations of Macroeconomics

ISBN: 978-0134492001

8th edition

Authors: Robin Bade, Michael Parkin

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