According to the law of diminishing returns:
A) the total product of an input will eventually be negative.
B) the total product of an input will eventually decline.
C) the marginal product of an input will eventually be negative.
D) the marginal product of an input will eventually decline.
E) none of the above

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The law of diminishing returns states that as more units of a variable input are added to a fixed input, eventually the marginal product of the variable input will decrease. This means that the additional output from each additional unit of the variable input will eventually be smaller and smaller, leading to a decline in the total product as well. However, the total product will not necessarily become negative.

According to the Law of Diminishing Returns