Diminishing Marginal Utility

question 40

Multiple Choice

Diminishing marginal utility

• A) occurs when the additional utility for each good declines as consumption increases.
• B) is the additional satisfaction derived from consuming one more unit of a good or service.
• C) is the combination of goods and services that maximizes utility for a given income.
• D) occurs when a consumer buys more of a good as a result of a relative price change.
• E) occurs when there is a change in purchasing power as a result of a change in the price of a good.

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Definitions:

Elasticity

A measure of how much the quantity demanded or supplied of a good changes in response to a change in price.

Elasticity

A measure of the responsiveness of demand or supply to changes in price, income, or other economic factors.

Resource Demand

The total amount of resources (such as labor, capital, and materials) that producers require to produce goods and services at various price levels.

Elastic Demand

Product or resource demand whose price elasticity of demand is greater than 1, so that any given percentage change in price leads to a larger percentage change in quantity demanded. As a result, quantity demanded is relatively sensitive to (elastic with respect to) price.