Suppose that a food manufacturing company produces two goods, A and B, using the same plant and labor. The total cost of producing A and B is give by: (in the picture)   Is this total cost function consistent with the present of increasing or decreasing returns to scale

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Q: What is the average product doing when the marginal product is decreasing? Why?

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Q: 1. The following production function is used to produce wheat, q, from capi- tal, K, and labour, L:…

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