Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14.1, Problem 14.4LM
The table below gives the prices for three products (A, B, and C) for the four quarters of last year.
- a. Compute a simple index for the Quarter 4 price of product A. using Quarter 1 as the base period.
- b. Compute a simple index for the Quarter 2 price of product B, using Quarter 1 as the base period.
- c. Compute a simple composite index for the Quarter 4 price of all three products, using Quarter 1 as the base period.
- d. Compute a simple composite index for the Quarter 4 price of all three products, using Quarter 2 as the base period.
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Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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