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Diminishing marginal utility refers to the reducing (decreasing) nature of the additional
satisfaction derived from the consumption of an extra unit of a commodity and the law is thus stated –
“as successive additional units of a commodity are consumed, the extra satisfaction
derived continues to decline.”
Wilfykil answered the question on February 6, 2019 at 07:24
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