Heather has one employee in her sweater shop who can sew six sweaters a day. When she hires a second person, the two employees can make ten sweaters together. Thinking at the margin, the extra benefit received from hiring a second worker is _____ sweaters.

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The extra benefit from hiring the second worker is the additional number of sweaters produced, which is 10 (total with two workers) minus 6 (produced by the first worker alone), equaling 4 sweaters.

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