Your first job after graduation is in the statistical office of the small country Exemplia, where most people are employed in olive groves and love eating olives. Based on the most important transactions in Exemplia summarised in below table, you are tasked with calculating the consumer price index with base year 2020.     2020 2021   Price Quantity Price Quantity Olives (domestic consumption) 2 2,000 2.20 2,100 Olives (export) 2 4,000 2.20 3,600 Potatoes imported 1 1,000 1 800 Government‘s purchase of pencils 0.50 10,000 1 6,000 Olive picking machines (imported) 100 10 110 10   Using basket from your answer to question (a), calculate the CPI for 2020 and 2021, and the inflation rate for 2021.

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Your first job after graduation is in the statistical office of the small country Exemplia, where most people are employed in olive groves and love eating olives. Based on the most important transactions in Exemplia summarised in below table, you are tasked with calculating the consumer price index with base year 2020.

 

 

2020

2021

 

Price

Quantity

Price

Quantity

Olives (domestic consumption)

2

2,000

2.20

2,100

Olives (export)

2

4,000

2.20

3,600

Potatoes imported

1

1,000

1

800

Government‘s purchase of pencils

0.50

10,000

1

6,000

Olive picking machines (imported)

100

10

110

10

 

  1. Using basket from your answer to question (a), calculate the CPI for 2020 and 2021, and the inflation rate for 2021.
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