Rick works for a sports equipment manufacturing company. He wants to compare the opinion of his older employees to the new employees. To do this, he separates all the employees into two groups, employees that have been with company five or more years and those that have been with the company less than five years. He then chooses 12 of his most trusted older employees and 16 new employees that have proven themselves and ask what they think about changing the medical insurance coverage.

As a result of a labeling mistake at the chemical factory, a farmer accidentally sprays weedkiller rather than fertilizer on half her land. as a result, she loses half of her productive farmland. if the property of diminishing returns applies to all factors of production, she should expect to seea. a decrease in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and an increase in the marginal productivity of her labor. b. an increase in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and an increase in the marginal productivity of her labor. c. an increase in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and a decrease in the marginal productivity of her labor. d. a decrease in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and a decrease in the marginal productivity of her labor.