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10.17: Outcome- Marginal, Average, and Total Product

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    What you’ll learn to do: define and differentiate between marginal, average, and total product; compute and graph marginal, average, and total product

    In this section, you’ll learn more about the types of decisions that firms face in the short-run. A firm must consider their marginal, average, and total products to help determine how much they could and should produce.

    The specific things you’ll learn to do in this section include:

    • Explain diminishing marginal product and diminishing marginal returns

    LEARNING ACTIVITIES

    The learning activities for this section include:

    • Reading: Production Choices and Costs
    • Self Check: Marginal, Average, and Total Product

    Take time to review and reflect on each of these activities in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.

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