Instructions: Round your answers to 1 decimal place.
a. Suppose your nominal income rose by 6.3 percent and the price level rose by 4.3 percent in some year. By what percentage would
your real income (approximately) increase? ____percent.
b. If your nominal income rose by 3.8 percent and your real income rose by 1.0 percent in some year, what must have been the
(approximate) rate of inflation? ____percent.