A student wrote: "When the average product of labor exceeds the marginal product, the marginal product is increasing." If you were the instructor, how would you correct this statement?

What will be an ideal response?


There are several errors. The corrected sentence is "When the average marginal product of labor exceeds the marginal average product, the marginal average product is increasing."

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