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Additional units of a variable input are added to a fixed input. Total output rises from 0 units to 100 units to 190 units to 270 units to 310 units. This represents ______.
a. diminishing
b. diminishing marginal returns.
c. increasing MPP of the variable input
d. total output rising at a constant rate
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