hi  Suppose you build bird houses. One day, you double the time you spend building and double the wood, nails, paint, and all the other inputs in order to build twice as many bird houses. What kind of production function is this?   options:   increasing returns to scale   constant returns to scale   decreasing returns to scale   zero returns to scale

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