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Over a long period of time, the price of a candy bar rose from $0.20 to $1.20. Over the same period, the CPI rose from 150 to 300. Adjusted for overall inflation, how much did the price of the candy bar change?

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N. Gregory Mankiw
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9781337091985

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