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Study Plan Problems and Applications

  1. In Canada, the reference base period for the CPI is 2002. By 2014, prices had risen by 25.2 percent since the base period. The inflation rate in Canada in 2015 was 1.1 percent. Calculate the CPI in Canada in 2015.

  2. In Brazil, the reference base period for the CPI is 2000. By 2005, prices had risen by 51 percent since the base period. The inflation rate in Brazil in 2006 was 10 percent, and in 2007, the inflation rate was 9 percent. Calculate the CPI in Brazil in 2006 and 2007. Brazil’s CPI in 2008 ...

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