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Hey everyone, today we're answering problem 8 from chapter 28.
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So our first step is going to be that we see that we have an mpc of 0 .9.
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Our initial real gdp is 400 billion, and then we see that investment decreases by 4 billion, and we want to determine the new real gdp.
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So our first step is going to be to determine our multiplier with our value of an mpc equal to 0 .9.
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And then once we have that multiplier, we're going to use the multiplier and multiply it by the change in a type of aggregate expenditure, in this case, investment spending.
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And then with this total change, add this change to the initial value, which is $400 billion.
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So i'm just going to abbreviate our gdp for real gdp.
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And this is to get the new our gdp.
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All right, so let's determine our multiplier.
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So remember the formula for our multiplier always equal to 1 divided by the marginal propensity to save.
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And remember the marginal propensity to consume and save always add up to 1.
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So you can always rewrite this formula as 1 divided by 1 minus mpc.
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So in this case we have 1 divided by while 1 minus mpc...