The consumer price index is created by
A) calculating the cost of a "basket" of consumer goods typically bought by an American family in any year as a percentage of their cost in a base year.
B) the Congressional Budget Office.
C) averaging the price increases for all consumer goods in the GDP and adding 100.
D) dividing nominal dollar consumer expenditures by base year consumer expenditures.
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