Suppose That the Twenty-Third Worker at a Distribution Center for an Online

question 179

Multiple Choice

Suppose that the twenty-third worker at a distribution center for an online retailer generates a marginal product equal to eight boxes of output and that the average product of the twenty-third worker employed is five boxes per worker. We can conclude that

• A) average product is rising.
• B) marginal product is falling.
• C) average product is neither rising nor falling.
• D) marginal product is neither rising nor falling.

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