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that is not always straightforward, but can be applied to any worker. To understand
MRP, two other terms have to be dened, marginal product and marginal revenue. A
worker’s marginal product is the additional units of output they create. For example,
if a company is making footballs, then a worker’s marginal product would be the
additional number of footballs that are made because of that individual. Although
probably no individual actually makes footballs from start to nish anymore, every-
one at the football company helps create some number of footballs. e number of
footballs made because of a specic ...