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Marginal Revenue
Marginal revenue (MR) is the additional revenue a firm gets from selling one more unit of its product. For discrete changes in output, it is calculated as the change in total revenue (ΔR) divided by the change in quantity (ΔQ), using the formula . When treating quantity (Q) as a continuous variable, calculus is employed. In this context, marginal revenue is defined as the rate at which total revenue changes in response to an infinitesimal increase in quantity, which corresponds to the derivative of the total revenue function.
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A firm faces the demand schedule provided below. Match each change in quantity sold with the corresponding marginal revenue generated by that change.
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