In marginal analysis, the cost of an activity is measured against incremental changes in volume to determine how the overall change in cost will affect the bottom line of a business.

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The first step in the process of coming up with a marginal revenue derivative is to estimate the demand function. The demand function defines the price that customers will pay depending on how ...