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trade-off curve
One line for one pair of goals, showing the exchange rate along its whole length. The useful feature is the knee, the point after which each extra unit of one goal costs far more of the other than it did a moment ago.
One line for one pair of goals, showing the exchange rate along its whole length. The useful feature is the knee, the point after which each extra unit of one goal costs far more of the other than it did a moment ago.
Example
Best when a single trade-off keeps recurring and you want to find the point past which more is not worth it.
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