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What does the Consumer Price Index of any given year provide?(1 point)

the nominal price of a basket of consumer goods

the relative price of a basket of consumer goods as compared to base year prices

the relative price of all consumer goods in the economy as compared to base year prices

the nominal price of all consumer goods in the economy

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the relative price of a basket of consumer goods as compared to base year prices

Briefly: the CPI is an index showing how the cost of a fixed consumer basket has changed relative to a base year (not the nominal price or the price of all goods).