A profit-maximizing firm will hire extra units of a resource when

a. marginal resource cost exceeds marginal revenue product
b. marginal resource cost is equal to marginal revenue product
c. marginal resource cost is less than marginal revenue product
d. temporary resource price differentials exceed the marginal resource cost
e. the average resource cost and marginal resource cost curves are equal


C

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