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How do you know when one more is too much?
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Marginal utility is the extra value or additional satisfaction a consumer obtains from consuming one additional unit of output.
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Diminishing marginal utility is when the additional satisfaction or marginal utility associated with consuming additional units of the same product in a given amount of time eventually declines.
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Marginal analysis is a decision-making tool for comparing the additional or marginal benefits of a course of action to the additional or marginal costs.
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Glove Production Table
Number of Workers (1) Number of Gloves Produced (2) (3) (4) (5)
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Marginal product is the additional output produced by each successive unit of an input.
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The law of diminishing returns states that as more units of a variable input are added to one or more fixed inputs, eventually the number of additional units of output produced will begin to fall.
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Marginal cost is the increase in a producer’s total cost when it increases its output by one unit.
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