In Problems Where the Objective Is to Minimize the Total

question 36

True/False

In problems where the objective is to minimize the total cost of the activities, an activity is said to have decreasing marginal returns if the slope of its cost graph never increases but sometimes decreases as the level of the activity increases.

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