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Calculating Average Propensity to Save and Average Propensity to Consume

A nation's consumption function (expressed in millions of inflation-adjusted dollars) is C = $800 + 0.80Y. There are no taxes in this nation.

Now answer the following questions:
What is the value of autonomous saving?
What is the value of the multiplier?

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