Extra Credit Questions

[Eva Elisabeth]

I think I'd like like to have that...

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(04-24-2013 04:49 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Eva, it was a great question! Here's how I arrived at that last guess. I went here and changed the $5 to $8 and it came up $233.11

The strange thing was if you change the year from 1860 to 1864 it came up $123.36

At present your link doesn't work on my smartphone, but my source is an article about the 1861 revenue act which declared $800 (minimum income for paying taxes then) as current $ 20700. But I wonder how much those $1500 Lincoln pages for his house would be nowadays ($ 38816 seems incredible, at most you get the roof for it)

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...payed for his house, sorry, this touchpad keyboard is definitely made for infants' fingers