Newspaper vending machines are often built so that customers can pay to lift a door and take a paper off a pile of daily newspapers. Newspaper distributors are NOT concerned about customers taking the whole stack of papers because

A. the price of a daily newspaper is relatively low.
B. the total utility of a daily newspaper is zero.
C. the marginal utility of a second daily newspaper is zero.
D. the marginal utility of any one daily newspaper is zero.

Answer: C

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