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Increasing Total Costs Imply Positive Marginal Cost
There is a direct causal link between the principle of increasing total costs and the value of marginal cost. Since producing a greater quantity of output requires more inputs and thus raises total costs, the marginal cost—which measures the cost of an additional unit of output—must logically be a positive number. [3]
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