Joe's Organic Cereal Company produces granola breakfast cereal under a fixed proportion production system in which 22 ounces of cereal are packaged in each cardboard box. However, the plant production manager decides to reduce the amount of cereal per box to 20.5 ounces at the start of the next year. For the isoquant map, cereal is plotted in the vertical axis, and boxes are on the horizontal axis. What happens to the curves in the isoquant map as a result of this change?

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The decision to reduce the amount of cereal per box will result in a decrease in the number of boxes produced per unit of cereal. This means that the isoquant curves, which represent all possible combinations of inputs that can produce a given level of output, will shift downward.

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