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Diminishing marginal utility means total utility is:Multiple choice question.decreasing at a decreasing rate as long as marginal utility is positive.increasing at a decreasing rate as long as marginal utility is positive.decreasing at an increasing rate as long as marginal utility is positive.unchanged.

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Diminishing marginal utility means total utility is:Multiple choice question.decreasing at a decreasing rate as long as marginal utility is positive.increasing at a decreasing rate as long as marginal utility is positive.decreasing at an increasing rate as long as marginal utility is positive.unchanged.

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Diminishing marginal utility means total utility is: increasing at a decreasing rate as long as marginal utility is positive.

Here's why:

  1. Marginal utility refers to the additional satisfaction a consumer gets from consuming one more unit of a good or service.

  2. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that as a person consumes more and more units of a specific commodity, the utility (satisfaction) from the consumed units gradually diminishes.

  3. However, this does not mean that total utility decreases. Total utility is the sum of the marginal utilities of each unit consumed.

  4. So, even though each additional unit brings less satisfaction (diminishing marginal utility), the total utility still increases because you're adding positive amounts of utility.

  5. But, because each additional unit is adding less utility than the one before, the rate of increase in total utility is decreasing. Hence, total utility is increasing at a decreasing rate.

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