The table shown displays CPI data for 2015 to 2019. 
What can be said about the cost of living in 2017?
A) The typical consumer had to spend 5 percent more in 2017 than in 2016 in order to buy the same goods.
B) The price of intermediate goods increased by 5 percent.
C) The typical consumer could spend 5 percent less to maintain the same standard of living.
D) None of these are true.
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Q16: A market basket:
A) is related to how
Q17: Using the market basket approach:
A) allows us
Q18: When we say the cost of living
Q19: Which of the following goods is least
Q20: When the market basket is tracked over
Q22: The table shown displays CPI data for
Q23: When consumers substitute one good for another,
Q24: The table shown displays CPI data for
Q25: Which of the following is not a
Q26: The CPI-U does not include goods consumed
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