A soda factory employs seven workers and produces 500 bottles of soda a day. The company reduces the workforce to six workers and output is now 450 bottles a day. The seventh worker:

A. had a marginal product of 50 bottles of soda.
B. caused average product to fall.
C. had a lower marginal product than the sixth worker.
D. All of these are true.


D. All of these are true.

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