If your bank pays you 6% interest on a savings account and inflation is 2%, your approximate real rate of interest is

A) 2%.
B) 4%.
C) 8%.
D) 12%.


B

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a. Warren G. Harding b. Abraham Lincoln c. Ulysses S. Grant d. Theodore Roosevelt

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