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Question 37 and 38 refer to the following information The U.S. federal Government tracks the Consumer Price Index (CPI)- a comprehensive standard used to estimate the average price change for the typical goods and services purchased by consumers. This measure gives economics a usefulway to estimate the rates of the inflation or deflation, which reflects the respective general increase or decrease of prices of goods and services in the economy. The accompanying tables summarizes the changes in the CPI for the years 2005 through 2014, which can be assumed to be the corresponding percent rates of inflation. Q. At a beginning of 2015, a retired person is shopping for a retirement annunity, which is an investment policy that will give him fixed monthly payments for the rest of his life. He would like the amount of his annuity payments to more than keep up with the rate of inflation. He decides that he will choose a policy that issuse payments that increase annually at a rate of that is at least 1.5% greater than the average yearly compounded rate of inflation calculated from the period that extends from the second half of 2005 through the first half of 2008. What should be the minimum annual rate of increase in his monthly annuity payments, correct to the nearest tenth? |
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