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Marginal product curve

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A marginal product curve is a visual presentation that demonstrates the relationship between the marginal product and the quantity of its input. All other inputs are fixed.

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Why marginal product curve intersect the average product curve at the maximum?

of average product.


If marginal revenue product capital increases the demand or supply curve?

Demand.


Why is the demand curve referred to as a marginal benefit curve?

The link between a product and how much it is worth, the amount it is in demand and how much customers are ready to pay for it can be shown in economics on a graph known as a demand curve. This is also known as the marginal benefit curve.


How can the demand curve be derived using the marginal utility theory?

Marginal utility is the key concept underline demand .The height of a demand curve reflects marginal utility.The marginal utility curve resembles the demand curve. So, it is through the marginal utility we get the demand curve.


The supply curve of a monopoly is its marginal cost curve true or false?

Flase, The suuply curve of a "perfect competition" is its marginal cost curve


6 If the average total cost curve is falling what is necessarily true of the marginal cost curve If the average total cost curve is rising what is necessarily true of the marginal cost curve?

When average total cost curve is falling it is necessarily above the marginal cost curve. If the average total cost curve is rising, it is necessarily below the marginal cost curve.


What is the relationship between marginal productivity and marginal cost?

The marginal product curve is 'n' shaped because of the law of diminishing returns. As you add more units of a variable factor, at first, the marginal product rises, (this is because the fixed factor is under-utilised, so adding more units of the variable factor will increase the output from each additional unit). But after a certain point, the marginal product begins to fall, as the fixed factor input becomes diluted amongst workers and so you get less from each additional unit of the variable factor. For an example, re-read the above paragraph and replace the word variable factor with labour and fixed factor with capital. The marginal cost curve is the inverse of the marginal product curve - hence it is shaped like a 'u' or a 'Nike tick'. This is because if your marginal product is high - then your marginal costs are low. For example, if a firm must pay electricity for the time it takes to produce a unit, if the firm can produce the unit quicker (i.e. has a high marginal product) then the cost of electricity will be lower. Hence the inverse relationship between marginal cost and marginal product.


Why does the marginal cost curve correspond to the supply curve?

A perfectly competitive firm's supply curve is that portion of its' marginal cost curve that lies above the minimum of the average variable cost curve. A perfectly competitive firm maximizes profit by producing the quantity of output that equates price and marginal cost. As such, the firm moves along it's marginal cost curve in response to alternative prices. Because the marginal cost curve is positively sloped due to the law of diminishing marginal returns, the firm's supply curve is also positively sloped.


Is the height of an indifference curve the marginal rate of substitution?

Yes. The height of an indifference curve is the marginal rate of substitution.


Relationship between Marginal revenue and Demand curve?

marginal revenue always lies behind the demand curve,and when demand increases marginal revenue also increases.demand curve is used to determine price of a commodity.


Does monopolistically competitive firms have horizontal marginal cost curve?

No it does not. Only Perfectly Competitive firms have a horizontal Marginal Cost curve, which is also there demand curve.


The price charged by a profit-maximizing monopolist occurs at?

the point where the marginal cost curve intersects the marginal revenue curve