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What is meant by variable cost?
Short Answer
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Solution
- Variable costs are those costs that vary in amount with changes in the level of output or activity.
- Such costs increase and decrease in the same proportion in which the level of output increases or decreases.
- Variable costs vary in total amount but remain constant per unit of production.
- Variable costs are controllable in the short run.
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Classification of Costs
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