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Author: E. Thomas Garman, Raymond Forgue
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 1, Problem 6DTM
Inflation. Laureen Mauer’s salary a year ago was $52,000. If inflation during the year was 3.5 percent in Tampa where she lives, how much of a decline in her
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