A student wrote: "When the average product of labor exceeds the marginal product, the marginal product is increasing." If you were the instructor, how would you correct this statement?

What will be an ideal response?

There are several errors. The corrected sentence is "When the average marginal product of labor exceeds the marginal average product, the marginal average product is increasing."

Economics

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A) expansionary; stagflation B) contractionary; stagflation C) expansionary; recession D) contractionary; recession

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For a given significance level, if the calculated value of the Durbin Watson statistic lies between the lower critical value and the upper critical value, _____.

A. the hypothesis of no serial correlation is accepted B. the hypothesis of no serial correlation is rejected C. the test is inconclusive D. the hypothesis of heteroskedasticity is accepted

Economics