A firm can sell as many units of its output as it wants for $10 a piece. The current market wage rate for its workers is $20 per hour. It follows that the firm will hire workers up to the point where the last worker hired produces how much per hour?

a. one unit.
b. two units.
c. one-half a unit.
d. 200 units.


c. one-half a unit.

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