Suppose Your Newspaper Is Trying to Decide Between Two Competing

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Multiple Choice

Suppose your newspaper is trying to decide between two competing desktop publishing software packages, Macro Publish and Turbo Publish. You estimate that if you purchase x copies of Macro Publish and y copies of Turbo Publish, your company s daily productivity will be where U ( x , y ) is measured in pages per day ( U is called a utility function.) If x = y = 13, by approximately how many pages per day will productivity increase if x is increased by one unit?

• A)A productivity increase of approximately 9.17 pages per day.
• B)A productivity increase of approximately 3.59 pages per day.
• C)A productivity increase of approximately 4.59 pages per day.
• D)A productivity decrease of approximately 65.00 pages per day.
• E)A productivity increase of approximately 69.59 pages per day.

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