Answer:
a. $4.1 million in 2000 dollars, which is more than the cost of the courthouse restoration in 2000 dollars.
Explanation:
The computation is shown below;
Cost in 2000 dollars is
= $500,000 × (Price index in 2000 ÷ Price index in 1949)
= $500,000 × (114.5 ÷ 14)
= 40,89,285.71
= $4.1 million
So overall we can see that the $4.1 million in the year 2000 more than the cost of the courthouse
Therefore the option a is correct