The graph shows the income-expenditure model for the country of Desireland, where AE represents aggregate expenditure. The Desirish government wants to stimulate the economy owing to a slowdown in economic activity and, as such, decides to increase infrastructure spending by $7.65 billion. Show the impact of this extra spending given a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 0.7 and a total tax take of 30%, for any changes in GDP. In this example, assume that there is no international trade or inflation, and that interest rates are fixed. Planned aggregate spending (in billions of dollars) 70 65 60 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 0 5 10 45 degree line A new socialist government is elected to Desireland and decides to increase direct spending even more, to total of $9.7 billion. What will be the total change in real GDP? Please provide the answer to the nearest whole billion. Planned AE 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 Real GDP (in billions of dollars) total change in real GDP: $ billion

The graph shows the income-expenditure model for the country of Desireland, where AE represents aggregate expenditure. The Desirish government wants to stimulate the economy owing to a slowdown in economic activity and, as such, decides to increase infrastructure spending by $7.65 billion. Show the impact of this extra spending given a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 0.7 and a total tax take of 30%, for any changes in GDP. In this example, assume that there is no international trade or inflation, and that interest rates are fixed. Planned aggregate spending (in billions of dollars) 70 65 60 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 0 5 10 45 degree line A new socialist government is elected to Desireland and decides to increase direct spending even more, to total of $9.7 billion. What will be the total change in real GDP? Please provide the answer to the nearest whole billion. Planned AE 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 Real GDP (in billions of dollars) total change in real GDP: $ billion

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