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So here we're having a discussion about real versus nominal, right? and the basic idea is this.
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Nominal is measured in dollars or units of currency, right? that's what a nominal measurement is trying to accomplish, right? it is something that is measured in dollars or units of currency.
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The real is measured in physical or what you might call real quantities.
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And that distinction seems a little bit weird.
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So let's go through these and figure it out, right? so a, we're told that the wage is equal to three comics per hour, right? this here is a real measurement, right? this is, right, is real.
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It is a real tangible amount of something, right? it is a physical quantity.
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That makes it a real measurement.
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For b, we have the price of a mandarin is equal to 0 .33 comics in 2009...