If You Hire 1 Worker, He Can Produce 10 Pretzels

question 142

Multiple Choice

If you hire 1 worker, he can produce 10 pretzels a day. If you hire a 2nd worker, she can produce 8 more pretzels. If you hire a 3rd worker, she can produce 6 more pretzels a day. A graph displaying this relationship between the number of employees on the horizontal axis and total pretzel output per day on the vertical axis shows

• A) an upward- sloping curve that becomes less steep as employment increases.
• B) a positive linear relationship.
• C) a negative linear relationship.
• D) a negatively- sloped curve that becomes less steep as employment as increases.

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