Which situation best illustrates a business increasing its productivity? A. a restaurant tries to win over a new customer by eliminating all of its old dishes and promoting a completely new menu.

B. a grocery store hopes to increase its profits by selling organic vegetables grown on a local farms that avoids dangerous pesticides.

C. a car company receives a large amount of capital from a bank to help it recover from a difficult period of low sales

D. a computer company develops a method to build two laptops using the same material it previously needed to build one.

d

Explanation:

answer; (d) none of the above;

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.