If the price of industrial plastic injection molding machines rose by 20 percent and the price of oranges fell by 20 percent,then
A) the consumer price index (CPI)would remain unchanged.
B) the consumer price index (CPI)would rise if oranges had a greater weight.
C) the consumer price index (CPI)would rise because plastic injection molding machines weigh more physically per unit.
D) the consumer price index (CPI)would fall because people buy more oranges than plastic injection molding machines.
E) all else equal,the consumer price index (CPI)would fall by the weighted value of oranges in the CPI,but because industrial plastic injection molding machines are not a consumer good,they would not affect the CPI.

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The CPI measures the average change in prices paid by consumers for goods and services. Industrial plastic injection molding machines are not consumer goods, so their price change does not affect the CPI. Only the price change of oranges, a consumer good, would impact the CPI.

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