General Electric paid its line workers $12 per hour last year when the Consumer Price Index was 100. Suppose over the past year that deflation occurred and the aggregate price level fell to 90. Instructions: Round your answers to two decimal places.
a. GE must pay its workers $ ? this year in order to keep the real wage fixed at $12.
b. GE must pay its workers $ ? this year if it wants to increase the real wage by 12 percent.
c. If GE keeps the wage fixed at $12 per hour, in real terms, its workers get a ? % increase in wages.