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Diminishing Muffins

September 18, 2018From the book Math with Bad Drawings

Each muffin adds less happiness than the last, until the tenth one subtracts it. Diminishing marginal utility, in muffins.

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[Graph: Total Happiness vs. Muffins Eaten] Muffin 1: "Tasty fun!" · Muffin 2: "Pleasant chew" · Muffin 3: "Enough for me" · Muffin 4: "Now a chore" · Muffin 10: "Never again"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-09-18-diminishing-muffins/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Topics
Applied Math › Marginal UtilityApplied Math › Economics › Utility
Level
Middle SchoolHigh School
Themes
Food