问题


There is a single choice question about high school microeconomics. Answer the question by replying A, B, C or D.
Question: Diminishing marginal returns to short-run production begin when
A. the average product of labor begins to fall.
B. the total product of labor begins to fall.
C. marginal product of labor becomes negative.
D. marginal product of labor begins to fall.
Answer:

答案

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金声玉亮2.0

D.
D
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The correct answer is D. Diminishing marginal returns occur when the marginal product of labor begins to fall, even if it remains positive. This happens because adding more of a variable input (like labor) leads to smaller incremental gains in output. Options A and B relate to average and total product declines, which occur later. Option C refers to negative marginal product, which is an extreme case of diminishing returns but not their onset. Thus, the answer is:

D. marginal product of labor begins to fall.

Answer: D
D
gpto1 D D
GPT-4o D. marginal product of labor begins to fall. D
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D
D
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D
D
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 D D
Qwen2-72B-Instruct D. marginal product of labor begins to fall. D
baichuan4 D. marginal product of labor begins to fall. D
doubao D. marginal product of labor begins to fall.

Diminishing marginal returns occur when the increase in output resulting from adding one more unit of a variable input (such as labor) starts to decrease, which is when the marginal product of labor begins to fall.
D
minimax D. marginal product of labor begins to fall. D
kimi D. marginal product of labor begins to fall. D
wenxinyiyan D

Explanation:
Diminishing marginal returns occur when an additional unit of input (in this case, labor) adds less to total output than the previous unit. This is reflected in the marginal product of labor, which is the change in total output resulting from a one-unit increase in labor, beginning to fall. It does not require the average product of labor to fall (option A) or the total product of labor to fall (option B), and it occurs before the marginal product of labor becomes negative (option C). Therefore, the correct answer is D.
D
zhipu D. marginal product of labor begins to fall.

Diminishing marginal returns occur when the addition of an extra unit of a variable input (such as labor) results in a smaller increase in output than the previous units of input. This is reflected in the marginal product of labor beginning to fall. The other options describe later stages of production where the average or total product starts to decline or the marginal product becomes negative, which occur after diminishing marginal returns have already set in.
D
gpto1 D D