The world of microeconomics and business decision-making hinges upon a key concept: marginal cost. In the simplest terms, marginal cost represents the expense incurred to produce an additional unit of ...

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Marginal cost helps predict company profit by analyzing cost to produce extra units. Investors use the gap between marginal cost and revenue to assess profitability. Technology firms, due to low ...

When businesses are planning how much to produce, they must pay close attention to marginal costs and marginal benefits – the incremental changes in costs and benefits that result from an increase in ...