Assume that a tire company sells four tires to an automobile company for $400, another company sells a compact disc player for $500, and the automobile company puts all of these items in or on a car that it sells for $20,000. In this case, the amount from these transactions that should be counted in GDP is:
Question
Assume that a tire company sells four tires to an automobile company for 500, and the automobile company puts all of these items in or on a car that it sells for $20,000. In this case, the amount from these transactions that should be counted in GDP is:
Solution
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period.
In this case, the car that is sold for $20,000 is the final good. The tires and the compact disc player are intermediate goods, which are used in the production of the final good (the car).
The value of intermediate goods is already included in the price of the final good. Therefore, to avoid double counting, we only count the value of the final good in GDP.
So, the amount from these transactions that should be counted in GDP is $20,000.
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