Explain the marginal rate of technical substitution

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1. Explain why the marginal rate of technical substitution is likely to diminish as more and more labor is substituted for capital.

2. Is it possible to have diminishing returns to a single factor of production and constant returns to scale at the same time? Discuss.

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