Marginal product: The additional output produced by hiring one more unit of a variable input (typically labor).
How to apply it: Calculate marginal product from a production table and identify the point of diminishing marginal returns.
Course: AP Microeconomics · Unit: Production, Cost, and the Perfect Competition Model
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