Show that increasing returns to scale can co-exist with diminishing marginal productivity

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The production function below illustrates this point. Diminishing marginal productivity describes what happens to output when only labor increases; returns to scale describes what happens to output when both capital and labor increase.

The first three rows illustrate diminishing marginal returns. Comparing rows 1 and 4 shows increasing returns to scale.

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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