The government wants to make medicare benefits available to more people, but to achieve this goal, it needs to make cuts in the existing medicare budget. the two areas where they are considering cuts are nonessential elective surgery and 6-12 month mental health care programs. applying the concept of diminishing marginal utility, the budget cuts should be made for spending on: a. elective surgery due to its lower marginal utility per dollar of expenditure. b. neither can be compared by measuring marginal utility. c. mental health therapy due to its higher marginal utility per dollar of expenditure. d. both programs, which have the same marginal utility per dollar of expenditure.

Sales at a fast-food restaurant average $6,000 per day. the restaurant decided to introduce an advertising campaign to increase daily sales. to determine the effectiveness of the advertising campaign, a sample of 49 days of sales were taken. they found that the average daily sales were $6,300 per day. from past history, the restaurant knew that its population standard deviation is about $1,000. if the level of significance is 0.01, have sales increased as a result of the advertising campaign? multiple choicea)fail to reject the null hypothesis.b)reject the null hypothesis and conclude the mean is higher than $6,000 per day.c)reject the null hypothesis and conclude the mean is lower than $6,000 per day.d)reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the mean is equal to $6,000 per day.expert answer