You are now required to compute the consumer price index (CPI) and the inflation in one  village. To do this task, you go to that village to collect data of households’ consumption in  that village. After collecting data, you find that households in this village consume a  standard basket of 3kg of rice, 1.5kg of meat and 3kg of vegetable and the prices of  these products are given below: a) CPI in Jan 2017, in Feb 2017, and in Mar 2017 by taking Jan 2017 as the base  month. b) Inflation rate from Feb to Mar 2017

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