The Marginal Cost of Providing a Public Good to an Additional

question 42

Multiple Choice

The marginal cost of providing a public good to an additional user is:

• A) negligible.
• B) zero.
• C) increasing as the number of users increases.
• D) quite large, which is why government must provide the good.

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