Question

Jane Dough Pizza's manager is now getting detailed costs for offering delivery service and needs to properly categorize them as either fixed or variable costs.
Please indicate whether each of the following items is a fixed cost or a variable cost.
a. Boxes for pizzas being delivered
b. Mileage reimbursement for delivery drivers
c. Monthly salary of programmer in charge of e-commerce website
d. Cost of raw materials for pizzas that get delivered
e. Monthly building lease

Answer 1

Answer:

variable costs.

variable costs.

fixed cost

variable costs.

fixed cost

Explanation:

Fixed costs are costs that do not vary with output. e,g, rent, mortgage payments

If production is zero or if production is a million, Mortgage payments do not change - it remains the same no matter the level of output.  

Hourly wage costs and payments for production inputs are variable costs

Variable costs are costs that vary with production

If a producer decides not to produce any output, there would be no need to hire labour and thus no need to pay hourly wages.  

If no pizzas are delivered, there would be no need for boxes. thus boxes of pizza is a variable cost

the salary of the programmer is not dependent on the level of output. thus it is a fixed cost