Suppose we want to change the base period of the CPI from July 1983 to December 2000.
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Suppose we want to change the base period of the CPI from July 1983 to December 2000. Recalculate December’s CPI for each of the years in Table 1, so that the table gives the same information about inflation, but the CPI in December 2000 now has the value 100 instead of 174.0.
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