Problem:
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Quantities Produced
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Prices
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CDs
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Tennis Racquets
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CDs
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Tennis Racquets
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Year 2004
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100
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200
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20
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110
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Year 2005
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120
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210
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22
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120
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Question 1. Calculate real GDP using prices from 2004. By what percent did real GDP grow?
Question 2. Calculate the value of the price index for GDP for 2005 using 2004 as the base year. By what percent did prices increase?
Question 3. Repeat problem 1 but use prices from 2005.
Question 4. Review the GDP information for the past few years from the Bureau of Economic Analysis's Website. Provide a brief summary of the GDP trends over that timeframe and discuss two or three events which may have caused these trends.