The diminishing marginal utility effect states that as more of an item is consumed and the amount of additional satisfaction decreases, the seller must price to induce the consumer to buy more.

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Explanation: Marginal utility could be explained as the extra satisfaction derived from the consumption of one extra unit of an item. However, as consumption increases, the extra satisfaction (marginal utility) begins to decline. At this point, the demand for such product or item will tend to fall or drop due to the decline in satisfaction. When this happens, reduces the price of such item becomes paramount in other to fight the decline in demand of the product and induce consumers to buy more.

you can lose ranking 2 ways.

1) you don't have enough points due to you expending them by asking questions/your answers are deleted.

2) your brainliest's expired. this means that brainliests, once they exceed the 30 day limit, expires. this is to ensure that you continue to contribute into the community at a constant rank if you want to continue to have/exceed the rank you have right now.

if you go to profile, and click "show more information" located on the bottom left of the box with your information (on top of the questions answered, questions asked, and friends), you will be given the following information (example):

member since : 02/13/2017, 18: 11

questions answered: 9741

questions asked: 162

no. of brainliest answers: 1575

brainliest answers in last 30 days: 10

warnings: 0 view

questions/answers reported: 2637

questions/answers incorrectly reported: 64

look at the "brainliest answers in the last 30 days". this is the one that will affect your rank other than your points. again, once your brainliest expires (was earned 31+ days ago), it will not be counted.

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