A firm decides to employ more capital and less labor. As a result of this, the marginal product of capital will ____ and the marginal product of labor will ____. Select an answer and submit. For keyboard navigation, use the up/down arrow keys to select an answer. a increase; increase b increase; decrease c decrease; increase d decrease; decrease
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