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a. Total utility is growing steeply

b. Total utility begins to decline.
c. A rational consumer would never knowingly pay a positive price for these units of the good or service generating negative marginal utility.
d. Total utility equals marginal utility.
e. Both b. and c. above are correct.


e

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