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$6.$ Calculating inflation using a simple price index

Consider an imaginary price index, the Undergraduate Price Index $($UPI$),$ created to represent the annual purchases made by a typical underg The following table contains information on the market basket for the UPI and the price of each good in $2020,2021,$ and $2022.$

The cost of each good in the basket as well as the basket's total cost are given for $2020.$

Perform these same calculations for $2021$ and $2022,$ and enter the results in the following table.

$\backslash$table$[[,$Quantity in Basket,$2020,2021,2022],[,\backslash$table$[[$Price$],[($Dollars$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Cost$],[($Dollars$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Price$],[($Dollars$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Cost$],[($Dollars$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Price$],[($Dollars$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Cost$],[($Dollars$)]]],[$Streaming services,$1,64,64,104,,234,],[$Iced coffees,$150,2,300,2,,2,],[$Textbooks$,10,80,800,$$$5,,105,],[$Notebooks$,8,2,16,2,,4,],[$Energy drinks,$40,3,120,4,,5,]]$