Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · Factors of production

Factors of production — practice question

Under the law of diminishing returns, what occurs when increasing amounts of a variable factor are added to a fixed factor?

  • AAn increase in the price of the variable factor will eventually result in an increase in production costs.
  • BA reduction in the quality of the variable factor will eventually result in an increase in production costs.
  • CFewer units of the variable factor will be needed to produce equal increases in output.
  • DThe proportions in which the factors are combined will eventually result in progressively smaller increases in output.

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