Suppose that every additional 3 percentage points in the investment rate boosts GDP growth by 1 percentage point. Assume also that all investment must be financed with consumer saving.

Investment rate = investment GDP.

The economy is now characterized by.

Consumption:	$ 6 trillion
Saving (= Investment):	$ 1 trillion
GDP:	$ 7 trillion

Instructions: Enter your responses as a whole number.

If the goal is to raise the growth rate by 1 percentage point,

1. by how much must investment increase?

$ billion

1. by how much must consumption decline?

$ billion