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1. State the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility. Provide an example to support your answer.
2. What are the shortcomings of the Cardinal Theory of Utility?
3. List and explain the four properties of indifference curves.
4. Suppose you really, really like ice cream. You adore ice cream. Does the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility apply to your ice cream consumption? Explain.
5. Do you tend to eat more at a fixed-price buffet or when ordering from an a la carte menu? Using the marginal decision rule, explain your behaviour.
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Law of Diminishing marginal utility (DMU ) tells that when we keep on consuming a product continuously the utility of each additional unit goes on decreasing means it would be less than the utility of previous unit of same product.