Write down the third digit in the hundredths place in this number 48.253
Write down the third digit in the hundredths place in this number 48.253
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Below are some income and Consumer Price Index data for Bill living in Utopian. (Utopian calculates CPI numbers the same was done by the USA.)
|
Year |
Billâs Nominal Income |
CPI |
|
2010 |
$70,000 |
218.1 |
|
2011 |
$71,000 |
224.9 |
|
2012 |
$72,000 |
229.6 |
(a) Using the base year as the comparison year, calculate the Real Value of Bill's Income for 2010 measured in base-year dollars. Please show the work done to get your answer. Please calculate your answer to the nearest dollar.
(b) Using the base year as the comparison year, calculate the Real Value of Bill's Income for 2011 measured in base-year dollars. Please show the work done to get your answer. Please calculate your answer to the nearest dollar.
(c) Using the base year as the comparison year, calculate the Real Value of Bill's Income for 2012 measured in base-year dollars. Please show the work done to get your answer. Please calculate your answer to the nearest dollar.
(d) In what year was Bill's Real Income the highest?
(e) Using the information above calculate the inflation rate from 2010 to 2011. Please show the work done to get your answer. Please calculate your answer to the second decimal place (hundredths place)
(f) In one factual sentence please state what information your answer the inflation rate in (e) above tells us. (I did not want any opinion of whether you think your answer is high or low.)
(g) If Sue lent Bill $20,000 at the start of 2010 for 1 year and charged Bill a nominal interest rate of 4.00%, then please calculate the real interest rate that Sue earned for this 1-year loan. Please show how you got your answer. Please calculate your answer to the second decimal place (hundredths place)
(h) If Sue wanted to earn a real interest rate (return) of 4.00% for the loan mentioned in (g) above, then what nominal interest rate should she have charged Bill? Please show how you got your answer. Please calculate your answer to the second decimal place (hundredths place).
