Question

If Farmer Brown plants no seeds on his farm, he gets no harvest. If he plants 1 bag of seeds, he gets 5 bushels of wheat. If he plants 2 bags, he gets 9 bushels. If he plants 3 bags, he gets 12 bushels. A bag of seeds costs $120, and seeds are his only cost. Farmer Brown’s production function exhibits:
a. increasing marginal product
b. constant marginal product
c. diminishing marginal product
d. the production function is unrelated to the marginal product.

Answer 1

Answer: d. the production function is unrelated to the marginal product.

Explanation:

production function helps show the relationship between the quantity of inputs used in producing a goods or service and the quantity of output it produces. Example; a bag of seeds produces 5 bushels of seeds.

While marginal output is an increase in the output of the product, when input is when input is constant.

In this case production is in to marginal product.