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Suppose output of a firm hiring workers in a competitive labor market increases by three units when an additional worker is hired.This firm will hire more laborers if the market price of its product is $4 and the wage rate is $9.[Hint: Marginal revenue product of a resource is equal to the product of marginal product of the resource and the marginal revenue of the firm.]


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