How do marginal costs change as output increases in the short
run? The answer lies in the law of diminishing returns (see the section on Diminishing Returns). We saw that output rose at a decreasing rate in the short run
due to the fact that some inputs are fixed in this time frame.
This means that marginal cost must be rising. A numerical computation
may help clarify this...
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