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The consumer price index, or CPI, measures the cost of living for a typical urban household by multiplying the price for each category of expenditure (housing, food, and so on times a measure of the importance of that expenditure in the average consumer's market basket and summing over all categories. However, using data from the consumer price index, we can see that changes in the cost of living for different types of consumers can vary a great deal. Let's compare the cost of living for a hypothetical retired person and a hypothetical college student. Let's assume that the market basket of a retired person is allocated in the following way: $10 \%$ on housing, $15 \%$ on food, $5 \%$ on transportation, $60 \%$ on medical care, $0 \%$ on education, and $10 \%$ on recreation. The college student's market basket is allocated as follows: $5 \%$ on housing, $15 \%$ on food, $20 \%$ on transportation, $0 \%$ on medical care, $40 \%$ on education, and $20 \%$ on recreation. The accompanying table shows the March 2014 CPI for each of the relevant categories. $$\begin{array}{lc} & \text { CPI } \\ & \text { March 2014 } \\ \text { Housing } & 228.7 \\ \text { Food } & 239.7 \\ \text { Transportation } & 219.3 \\ \text { Medical care } & 436.5 \\ \text { Education } & 229.1 \\ \text { Recreation } & 115.7 \end{array}$$ Calculate the overall CPI for the retired person and for the college student by multiplying the CPI for each of the categories by the relative importance of that category to the individual and then summing each of the categories. The CPI for all items in March 2014 was $235.6 .$ How do your calculations for a CPI for the retired person and the college student compare to the overall CPI?

The consumer price index, or CPI, measures the cost of living for the average consumer by multiplying the price for each category of expenditure (housing, food, and so on) times a measure of the importance of that expenditure in the average consumer's market basket and summing over all categories. However, using data from the consumer price index, we can see that changes in the cost of living for different types of consumers can vary a great deal. Let's compare the cost of living for a hypothetical retired person and a hypothetical college student. Let's assume that the market basket of a retired person is allocated in the following way: $10 \%$ on housing, $15 \%$ on food, $5 \%$ on transportation, $60 \%$ on medical care, $0 \%$ on education, and $10 \%$ on recreation. The college student's market basket is allocated as follows: $5 \%$ on housing, $15 \%$ on food, $20 \%$ on transportation, 096 on medical care, $40 \%$ on education, and $20 \%$ on recreation. The accompanying table shows the December 2004 CPI for each of the relevant categories. Calculate the overall CPI for the retired person and for the college student by multiplying the CPI for each of the categories by the relative importance of that category to the individual and then summing each of the categories. The CPI for all items in December 2004 was $190.3 .$ How do your calculations for a CPI for the retired person and the college student compare to the overall CPI?

The following 2 questions (Q55 to Q56) are based on the following information: The CPI's at the start of each decade from 1940 to 1990 were: Year 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 CPI 14.0 24.1 29.6 38.8 82.4 130.7 Q55: What was the rate of inflation for the 1950's, as measured by the percentage change in the CPI? Q56: What was the rate of inflation for the 1970's, as measured by the percentage change in the CPI? Q57: Name the major category added for the market basket of goods and services in 1998? Q58: Tuition at University Z was $1000 per quarter in 1985 (CPI = 107.6). How much should tuition be in 2001 adjusted for inflation (CPI = 175.1)? The following 2 questions (Q59 to Q60) are either "True" or "False" Q59: The current 'base period' that we are on is 1982-1984. Q60: 'Child care' is one of the eight major categories of goods and services in the market basket. The following 13 questions (Q61 to Q73) are based on the following example: Patients recovering from an appendix operation normally spend an average of 6.3 days in the hospital. The distribution of recovery times is normal with a σ = 2.0 days. The hospital is trying a new recovery program designed to lessen the time patients spend in the hospital. The first 16 appendix patients in this new program were released from the hospital in an average of 5.8 days. On the basis of these data, can the hospital conclude that the new program has a significant reduction of recovery time. Test at the .05 level of significance. Q61: The appropriate statistical procedure for this example would be a A. t-test B. z-test Q62: Is this a one-tailed or a two-tailed test? A. one-tailed B. two-tailed

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00:04 The consumer price index measures the cost of living for a typical consumer by multiplying the index for that category times the portion of the consumer's budget that spent on that category.

00:24 And so different people would have different percentages of their budget spent.

00:28 Retired people on the left spend 10 % on housing, whereas the college students on the right spend 5%.

00:38 And they both spend 15 % on food.

00:42 College students spend 20 % versus 5 % for retired people on transportation.

00:49 Big difference in medical care.

00:51 Retired people use about 60 % of their budget for medical care, but the typical college student wouldn't use any.

01:00 And education, retired people probably aren't buying any education, but that's a main purchase, 40 % for college students...

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Which is the best option for a research question? Question 5 options: What is the Consumer Price Index? When is the Consumer Price Index updated? Why are food and energy prices not included in the Consumer Price Index? Who utilizes the Consumer Price Index?

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Which is the best option for a research question? Question 5 options: What is the Consumer Price Index? When is the Consumer Price Index updated? Why are food and energy prices not included in the Consumer Price Index? Who utilizes the Consumer Price Index?

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