With Its Current Levels of Input Use, a Firm's MRTS

question 166

Multiple Choice

With its current levels of input use, a firm's MRTS is 3 (when capital is on the vertical axis and labor is on the horizontal axis) . This implies:

• A) the firm could produce 3 more units of output if it increased its use of capital by one unit (holding labor constant).
• B) the firm could produce 3 more units of output if it increased its use of labor by one unit (holding capital constant).
• C) if the firm reduced its capital stock by one unit, it would have to hire 3 more workers to maintain its current level of output.
• D) if it used one more unit of both capital and labor, the firm could produce 3 more units of output.
• E) the marginal product of labor is 3 times the marginal product of capital.

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