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Gardening Productivity
A gardener has a small, fixed-size vegetable patch. They observe that adding a second bag of fertilizer significantly increases the vegetable yield compared to using just one bag. However, when they add a third bag, the yield increases, but by a smaller amount than the second bag did. Using the relevant economic principle, explain why the third bag of fertilizer was less effective than the second.
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