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How can I answer all parts to this question please? I am finding it hard to understand. (please zoom in to see question more accurately, sorry its small).

How can I answer all parts to this question please? I am

The data set on the right contains the real per capita GDP for 2 countries from Year FJI GIN the Penn World Table (PWT) version 9.1 (Feenstra et al., 2015). The column 1970 3395 2542 names are the country codes, FJI and GIN. You may copy the dataset to Excel 1971 3561 2653 or R to do the computations. 1972 3766 2694 Download the data (CSV) 1973 4111 2721 a. What is the real per capita GDP for each country in 1970. 1974 4379 2848 FJI: Number 1975 4708 2928 1976 4630 3141 GIN: Number 1977 4825 3019 b. What is the average growth rate of each country between 1970 and 1978 4875 3204 2017? Calculate the growth rate of each year using the exact formula 1979 5503 3137 and take the average of all rates. Express your answers in percentage 1980 5457 3246 rounded to the nearest first decimal. 1981 4951 3122 FJI: Number 1982 4737 3112 1983 4537 3067 GIN: Number 1984 4699 3037 c. Based on the results of the previous questions, are the two countries 1985 4757 3102 converging to each other? 1986 4782 3080 Converging 1987 4750 3085 O Not converging 1988 4881 3164 1989 5275 3166 1990 5708 3068 1991 5504 3027 1992 5656 2832 1993 5677 2799 1994 5831 2808 1995 5883 2837 1996 6127 3017 1997 5824 2703 1998 5732 2645 1999 6029 2440 2000 5806 2247 2001 5807 2060 2002 5896 1919 2003 5849 1694 2004 6026 1609 2005 5932 1539 2006 6230 1546 2007 6290 1557 2008 6449 1579 2009 6541 1494 2010 6903 1677 2011 7410 1688 2012 7455 1804 2013 7834 1874 2014 8214 1873 2015 8491 1881 2016 8442 1848 2017 8634 2143

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