Marginal Utility Is

question 68

Multiple Choice

Marginal utility is

• A)the change in total utility divided by the price of the last unit of a good or service consumed.
• B)the change in total utility a person receives from consuming an additional unit of a good or service.
• C)the utility from consuming a given quantity of a good or service.
• D)the decrease in total utility from consuming more and more units of a good or service.

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Definitions:

Multinomial Distribution

A statistical distribution that generalizes the binomial distribution for variables that can take on more than two categories.

Proportions

A statistical measure that describes the size of a part in relation to the whole, often expressed as a fraction or percentage.

Chi-squared Goodness-of-fit Test

A statistical test used to determine whether sample data fits a population with a specified distribution.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test. It is used to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.