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Diminishing Marginal Product Leads to Diminishing Average Product
An intuitive explanation for why average product falls is found in its relationship with marginal product. If the marginal product is diminishing—meaning each additional unit of input adds less to the total output than the average of previous units—then this smaller marginal addition will pull down the overall average. Consequently, a diminishing marginal product causes the average product to diminish as well.
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