Chloe sells artisan cups of coffee at a weekend market. In a typical weekend, she sells 400 coffees at £3.50 each and her total costs are £600. One weekend she is unwell and does not open her stall, so she sells zero coffees but still incurs total costs of £150.
What are her variable costs in a typical weekend?
£150
£350
£450
£600
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.