问题


There is a single choice question about high school microeconomics. Answer the question by replying A, B, C or D.
Question: With capital fixed at one unit with 1, 2, 3 units of labor added in equal successive units, production of the output increases from 300 (1 unit of labor), to 350 (2 units of labor) to 375 (3 units of labor). Which of the following is a correct interpretation?
A. This is long run increasing returns to scale.
B. This is long run decreasing returns to scale.
C. This is long run constant returns to scale.
D. This is short run diminishing marginal productivity.
Answer:

答案

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金声玉亮2.0

The correct answer is D. This is short run diminishing marginal productivity.

Explanation:

* The question states that capital is fixed at one unit, which means we are in the short run.
* The production of output increases as labor is added, but at a decreasing rate:
+ 1 unit of labor: 300 output
+ 2 units of labor: 350 output (increase of 50)
+ 3 units of labor: 375 output (increase of 25)
* This shows that the marginal product of labor (the additional output produced by adding one more unit of labor) is decreasing, which is a characteristic of short run diminishing marginal productivity.

The other options are incorrect because:

* A. Long run increasing returns to scale would require an increase in output that is greater than proportional to the increase in inputs, which is not the case here.
* B. Long run decreasing returns to scale would require a decrease in output as inputs increase, which is not the case here.
* C. Long run constant returns to scale would require an increase in output that is proportional to the increase in inputs, which is not the case here.
D
deepseekr1

The scenario describes a short-run situation where capital is fixed, and labor is the variable input. The marginal product of labor decreases from 50 (when increasing from 1 to 2 units of labor) to 25 (from 2 to 3 units), illustrating **diminishing marginal productivity**. Since returns to scale (A, B, C) are long-run concepts requiring all inputs to vary, they do not apply here.

**Answer: D**
D
gpto1 D D
GPT-4o D. This is short run diminishing marginal productivity. D
llama3.1-70B-Instruct

D
D
llama3.1-405B-Instruct

D. This is short run diminishing marginal productivity.

Explanation:

* The question states that capital is fixed at one unit, which means we are in the short run.
* The production of output increases as labor is added, but at a decreasing rate:
+ 1 unit of labor: 300 output
+ 2 units of labor: 350 output (increase of 50)
+ 3 units of labor: 375 output (increase of 25)
* This shows that the marginal product of labor is decreasing as more labor is added, which is a characteristic of short run diminishing marginal productivity.

The other options are incorrect because:

* A. Long run increasing returns to scale would require an increase in output that is greater than proportional to the increase in inputs, which is not the case here.
* B. Long run decreasing returns to scale would require a decrease in output as inputs increase, which is not the case here.
* C. Long run constant returns to scale would require an increase in output that is proportional to the increase in inputs, which is not the case here.
D
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 D. This is short run diminishing marginal productivity. D
Qwen2-72B-Instruct D. This is short run diminishing marginal productivity. D
baichuan4 A. This is long run increasing returns to scale. D
doubao D

In the short run when capital is fixed and only labor is increased, initially the output may increase but at a decreasing rate which is known as diminishing marginal productivity. Here, as we add more units of labor while keeping capital fixed, the increase in output is diminishing (from 50 to 25), which is characteristic of short run diminishing marginal productivity. Long run returns to scale deal with changes in both capital and labor simultaneously, which is not the case here.
D
minimax D. This is short run diminishing marginal productivity. D
kimi D. This is short run diminishing marginal productivity.

Explanation: The question describes a scenario where the amount of labor increases in equal increments, and the output increases as well, but at a decreasing rate. This is indicative of diminishing marginal productivity in the short run. The marginal product of labor is the additional output produced by using one more unit of labor, while keeping all other inputs constant. Here, the marginal product decreases from 50 (350 - 300) when moving from 1 to 2 units of labor, to 25 (375 - 350) when moving from 2 to 3 units of labor. This decrease in marginal product with each additional unit of labor is characteristic of diminishing marginal productivity.

Increasing returns to scale would imply that output increases by more than the proportion of the increase in all inputs, which is not the case here since capital is fixed. Decreasing returns to scale would imply that output increases by less than the proportion of the increase in all inputs, which is also not the case here. Constant returns to scale would imply that output increases by the same proportion as the increase in all inputs, which is not the case here either, as the output does not increase by the same amount each time.

The question does not provide enough information to determine whether this is a long-term or short-term scenario, but diminishing marginal productivity is a concept that applies to the short run when at least one input is fixed.
D
wenxinyiyan D

Explanation:
In the given scenario, capital is fixed at one unit while labor is added in equal successive units. The production output increases but the rate of increase diminishes as more labor is added.

* With 1 unit of labor, production is 300.
* With 2 units of labor, production increases to 350 (an increase of 50).
* With 3 units of labor, production increases to 375 (an increase of only 25 compared to the previous increase of 50).

This pattern indicates that as more labor is added, the marginal productivity of labor (the additional output produced by adding one more unit of labor) is diminishing. This is a classic example of diminishing marginal productivity in the short run, where at least one factor of production (in this case, capital) is fixed.

The options A, B, and C refer to long-run returns to scale, which involve changes in all factors of production. Since capital is fixed in this scenario, it does not apply to the long run, where all factors are variable. Therefore, the correct interpretation is short-run diminishing marginal productivity, which corresponds to option D.
D
zhipu D. This is short run diminishing marginal productivity.

Explanation: In the short run, with capital fixed, the addition of successive units of labor results in diminishing increases in output. The marginal product of labor (the additional output from adding one more unit of labor) decreases as more labor is added: from 300 to 350 (an increase of 50 units) and then from 350 to 375 (an increase of only 25 units). This pattern indicates diminishing marginal productivity of labor in the short run. The other options refer to the long run, where all inputs can vary, which is not the scenario described here.
D
gpto1 D D