The Marginal Cost of Making a Given Quantity of a Congestible

question 32

Multiple Choice

The marginal cost of making a given quantity of a congestible public good available to more con?sumers is:

• A)always zero.
• B)positive and increasing.
• C)positive and decreasing.
• D)zero at first but eventually becomes positive and increasing.

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