Consider Comparing the Relationship Between Marginal and Average Product $\mathrm { AP } _ { \mathrm { L } }$

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Consider comparing the relationship between marginal and average product. When average product is decreasing in labor, marginal product is less than average product. That is, if $\mathrm { AP } _ { \mathrm { L } }$ decreases in $\mathrm { L }$ , then $\mathrm { MP } _ { \mathrm { L } } < \mathrm { AP } _ { \mathrm { L } }$ .

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