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Increasing return to a factor

Describe the likely behaviour of total product beneath the phase of increasing return to a factor.

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Increasing return to a factor is the first level of Law of return to a factor. Whenever more and more units of a variable factor is joined with fixed factor up to a certain phase, the total physical product increases along with increasing rate.

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