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Alfonso wants to know what the cost of living would be in four different cities. he looks at circular ads from each of the cities and finds the prices of goods that he would normally buy during a typical trip to the grocery store each week. he adds up what he would pay for each grocery trip in the different cities and calls the sum "price of grocery basket." he compares these costs to what he would earn in each city. compute alfonso’s real wage in terms of how many baskets of groceries his wage could purchase and complete the "real wage" column with this information.
alfonso’s nominal and real wages
city price of grocery basket (dollars) nominal wage (dollars) real wage (baskets of groceries)
boston $187.17 $56,000
pittsburgh 174.74 50,000
minneapolis 169.62 55,000
houston 155.00 45,000

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