Extract B (lines 12–14) states: 'A key factor driving the expansion of sugar beet cultivation is its superior yield, which on average produces 1.5 times as much sugar per hectare as traditional sugarcane crops...'
If 5 hectares of land yield 48 tonnes of sugar beet, calculate, to one decimal place, the expected yield of sugarcane from 11 hectares of land.
156 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Economics 1.4 Production, costs and revenue, covering 1.4.1 Production and productivity, 1.4.2 Specialisation, division of labour and exchange, 1.4.3 The law of diminishing returns and returns to scale (A-level only), 1.4.4 Costs of production, 1.4.5 Economies and diseconomies of scale, 1.4.6 Marginal, average and total revenue, 1.4.7 Profit, and 1.4.8 Technological change (A-level only). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.