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Beaconhouse School System

Business Studies: 7115 Class XI - C Ring Road Campus

Below are different level of output of a new magazine. The producer of the magazine intends to
price each copy for sale at 5$ each. The cost of hiring printing machinery is $2400 per month and
the print factory costs $1600 per month to rent. The cost of material and wages per magazine is
$3. There is no other cost in this simple example. Use a calculator to complete the table with
costs, revenue and profit/loss.

$ $ $ $ $ $
Magzines Per Total Fixed Total Variable
Total Cost Average Cost Total Revenue Profit/Loss
month Cost Cost
0 4000 0 4000 0 0 -4000
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000 4000 15000 19000 3.8 25000 6000
6000
7000
8000

1. At what level of output will the magazine publisher breakeven?


2. Plot and label the following curves on a graph with magazines per month along the bottom
axis and costs and revenue ($) in $1000 intervals along the side axis. This needs to extend up
to $40,000.
a) Total Cost
b) Total Revenue
3. Label those areas that represent profit/loss on your graph.

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