Suppose that the Producer Price Index and the sales of Hoskin’s Wholesale Distributors for 2006 and 2016 are:
Year | Producer Price Index | Sales | ||||
2006 | 160.5 | $ | 2,400,000 | |||
2016 | 109.7 | 3,500,000 | ||||
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What are Hoskin's real sales (also called deflated sales) for the 2 years? (Round your answers to the nearest dollar values.)
Year
Ratio of Producer Price Index
Given Sales
Deflated Sales
2006
1.605
2400000
3852000
2016
1.097
3500000
3839500
Total Amount for 2006 & 2016
7691500
For our case
The Real sales is calculated as,
The ratio of producer price index X given sales = Real Sales (Deflated Sales)
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