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

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where U (x, y) is measured in pages per day (U is called a utility function.) If , by approximately how many pages per day will productivity increase if x is increased by one unit?

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A. A productivity increase of approximately 7.16 pages per day.

B. A productivity decrease of approximately 81.00 pages per day.

C. A productivity increase of approximately 89.16 pages per day.

D. A productivity increase of approximately 16.32 pages per day.

E. A productivity increase of approximately 8.16 pages per day.

Answer 1

Answer: E