A firm has a total budget of £120 to spend on two inputs: labor, which costs £15 per hour, and materials, which cost £10 per unit. If the firm's spending options are plotted on a graph with materials on the vertical axis and labor on the horizontal axis, what is the maximum quantity of materials the firm can purchase?

A firm has a budget of £40 to spend on labor (at £10 per worker) and coal (at £5 per ton). If the firm's total budget were to double to £80, while input prices remain the same, the maximum amount of coal the firm could purchase (if no labor is hired) would also double.

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A manufacturing firm uses two inputs: labor (measured in hours) and steel (measured in kilograms). The firm's spending options are plotted on a graph with steel on the vertical axis and labor on the horizontal axis. Match each budget and price scenario with the correct maximum quantity of steel the firm can purchase if it spends its entire budget on steel (the vertical intercept of its spending line).

A bakery has a weekly budget of £500 for two ingredients: flour (plotted on the vertical axis) and sugar (plotted on the horizontal axis). If the bakery spends its entire budget on flour, it can purchase a maximum of 100 kilograms. Therefore, the price of one kilogram of flour must be £____.

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