Fifty years ago, Grandma Bell purchased a set A of gold-plated dinnerware for $55, and last year you inherited it. Unfortunately a fire at your home destroyed the set. Your insurance company is at a loss to define the replacement cost and has asked your help. You do some research and find that the Aurum Flatware Cost Index (AFCI) for gold-plated dinnerware, which was 112 when Grandma Bell bought her set, is at 2050 today. Use the AFCI to update the cost of Bell’s set to today’s cost to show to the insurance company.

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Fifty years ago, Grandma Bell purchased a set A of gold-plated dinnerware for $55, and last year you inherited it. Unfortunately a fire at your home destroyed the set. Your insurance company is at a loss to define the replacement cost and has asked your help. You do some research and find that the Aurum Flatware Cost Index (AFCI) for gold-plated dinnerware, which was 112 when Grandma Bell bought her set, is at 2050 today. Use the AFCI to update the cost of Bell’s set to today’s cost to show to the insurance company.

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The consumer price index refers to the method by which the inflation can be measured, under this situation the consumer price index includes four different sets of a consumer price index (CPIs), as due to the socio-economic differentiation found among the consumer's index prices i.e. the people’s choices of consumption and their purchasing power.

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