A news report says that falling oil prices pushed the CPI down 0.1 percent in a month

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A news report says that falling oil prices pushed the CPI down 0.1 percent in a month in which energy prices fell 2.4 percent and the price of gasoline fell by 3.9 percent.

Given the further information that the weight on energy prices in the CPI is 8 percent, by how much would the CPI have changed in the month if energy prices had not changed?

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Foundations Of Economics

ISBN: 9780135897478

9th Edition

Authors: Robin Bade, Michael Parkin

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