Calculate the inflation rate for given years

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Question: Consider a simple economy below that produces only three products. Use the information in the following table to calculate the CPI for each of the three years, and then to calculate the inflation rate for 2012-2014 and for 2014-2015 as measured by the CPI


base year 2012 2014 2015
product quantity price price price
haircuts 2 20 22 25
hamburgers 10 4 4.2 4.5
dvds 6 15 15 14

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