Microeconomics
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The law of diminishing marginal utility and consumption behavior.
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Taylor's marginal utility from watching movies and from eating out (in utils) is shown in the accompanying table. Taylor spends exactly $100 every month on these two forms of entertainment; the price of each movie is
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scones. The first column of the table represents the number of scones a consumer consumes in a day. The
second column of the table presents the total utility derived from that consumption, and the third column
shows the marginal utility of each additional scone. The total utility derived from the consumption of one
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