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Calculate a price index for 2018, 2019, 2020 using the following information about prices. Let the market basket consist of t

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1) Price Index for each year can be calculated by the folllowing formula -

Price Index = Price of Pizza * Quantity of Pizza + Price of Soda * Quantity of Soda + Price of Latte * Quantity of Latte

The calculations are shown in the table below.

2) Between 2018 and 2019, inflation was of 38.3% and between 2020 and 2019, inflation was of 16.3%. We calculate inflation by taking the percentage change of price indices.

Year Price of Pizza (Pz) Price of Soda (Ps) Price of Caffe-Latte (Pz) Quantity of Pizza (Qz) Quantity of Soda (Qs) Quantity of Caffe-Latte (Qz) Price Index Inflation
2018 5 0.5 1.5 1 2 4 12
2019 5.5 0.55 2.5 1 2 4 16.6 38.3%
2020 6 0.65 3 1 2 4 19.3 16.3%
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