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A certain beverage company provides a complete line of beer, wine, and soft drink products for distribution through retail outlets in central Iowa. Unit price data for 2011 and 2014 and quantities sold in cases for 2011 follow. Use 2011 as the base period.
Unit Price ($) | |||
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Item | 2011 Quantity (cases) |
2011 | 2014 |
Beer | 35,000 | 18.50 | 20.15 |
Wine | 5,000 | 100.00 | 116.00 |
Soft drink | 70,000 | 8.00 | 8.80 |
Compute the price relatives for this company's products. (Round your answers to two decimal places.)
Item | Price Relative |
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Beer | |
Wine | |
Soft drink |
Use a weighted average of price relatives to show that this method provides the same index as the weighted aggregate method. (Round your answers to the nearest integer.)
weighted average of price relatives index
weighted aggregate price index