If the price of clothing (which accounts for 5 percent of total expenditures in the CPI basket), rises by 10 percent in one year while the prices of all other goods remain constant, by how much will the CPI rise?
A. 0.5 percent
B. 10 percent
C. 5 percent
D. 50 percent
Answer: A
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