Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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Transcribed Image Text:The table below shows the values for several different components of GDP.
Billions of
Category
Dollars
Personal consumption expenditures
Net foreign factor income
$266
Transfer payments
15
Rents
12
Consumption of fixed capital (depreciation)
Statistical discrepancy
23
8
Social Security contributions
20
Interest
10
Proprietor's income
Net exports
23
12
Dividends
16
Compensation of employees
263
Taxes on production and imports
Undistributed corporate profits
11
Personal taxes
16
Corporate income taxes
Corporate profits
Government purchases
Net private domestic investment
Personal saving
9
46
61
26
10
Imports
5
Instructions: Enter your answers as whole number.
a. What is the value of exports?
$
billion
b. What is the value of national income?
$
|billion
c. What is the GDP?
2$
billion
d. What is the value of personal income?
billion
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Transcribed Image Text:The following table shows nominal GDP and an appropriate price index for a group of selected years. Compute real GDP. Indicate in
each calculation whether you are inflating or deflating the nominal GDP data.
Instructions: Enter your responses in the gray-shaded cells. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.
Nominal GDP,
Billions
Price Index
Year
Real GDP, Billions
Effect on Nominal GDP
(2005 = 100)
1978
$2,308.80
40.4
1988
5,115.40
66.98
1998
8,808.50
85.51
2008
14,456.40
108.48
2018
20,519.30
128.59
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