Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · Factors of production

Factors of production — practice question

The diagram illustrates a firm’s average physical product of labour and marginal physical product of labour curves. What conclusion can be drawn from the diagram?

  • AAPPL declines beyond OL2 as a result of diseconomies of scale.
  • BA profit-maximising firm would never hire more than OL2 labour hours.
  • CBetween OL1 and OL2, each extra labour hour hired causes both MPPL and APPL to decline.
  • DDiminishing returns first set in when the number of labour hours hired reaches OL1.

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