An Executive at a U

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An executive at a U.S.Steel Company uses growth in gross domestic product as one way to develop trends in industry steel use; so he records GDP change for each year on a graph.However, the executive's figures are considerably higher than those of the staff economist, who also has drawn a graph.This difference is most likely the result of

• A) measurement errors by the U.S.Bureau of the Census.
• B) a decline in the gross domestic product.
• C) an increase in the gross domestic product.
• D) the economist adjusting the figures for the inflation rate.
• E) a change in productivity.

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