(Consumption) Use the following data to answer the questions below: Consumption Real Disposable Income (billions) Expenditures (billions) Saving (billions)   $100   $150   $   $200   $200     $300   $250     $400   $300   Graph the consumption function, with consumption spending on the vertical axis and disposable income on the horizontal axis. If the consumption function is a straight line, what is its slope? Fill in the saving column at each level of income. If the saving function is a straight line, what is its slope?

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(Consumption) Use the following data to answer the questions below:

Consumption Real Disposable Income

(billions)

Expenditures

(billions)

Saving

(billions)

 

$100

 

$150

 

$

 

$200

 

$200

 

 

$300

 

$250

 

 

$400

 

$300

 

  1. Graph the consumption function, with consumption spending on the vertical axis and disposable income on the horizontal axis.
  2. If the consumption function is a straight line, what is its slope?
  3. Fill in the saving column at each level of income. If the saving function is a straight line, what is its slope?

 

 

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