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Question
What is the law of variable proportions?
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Solution
Law of Variable Proportions :-
According to the law of variable proportions, if more and more units of the variable factor (labour) are combined with the same quantity of the fixed factor (capital), then initially the total product will increase but gradually after a point, the total product will start diminishing.
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