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Scenario: Technological Progress and Productivity Growth in Techland
In Techland, from 1980 to 2010, holding technology and human capital fixed, increasing physical capital per worker from $25,000 to $100,000 would have led to a doubling of real GDP per worker, from $40,000 to $80,000. However, not only did physical capital per worker increase from $25,000 to $100,000, but technological progress shifted the productivity curve upward so that real GDP per worker actually increased from $40,000 to $320,000.
-(Scenario: Technological Progress and Productivity Growth in Techland) Look at the scenario Technological Progress and Productivity Growth in Techland. What was the growth rate of real GDP per capita in Techland?

• A)2.0%
• B)4.5%
• C)7%
• D)17.5%