International A Level Unit 3, May 2025

Q1 Pick the internal scale saving open to Integris, the UK management services firm formed by merger in 2021.

Q2 Name the goal of a sole supplier that prices where average revenue just covers average cost.

Q3 Deduce the labour market effect of Japan paying builders to renovate older Kyoto housing in 2024.

Q4 Work out variable cost per unit at 12 000 garments from a clothing maker's total cost schedule.

Q5 Explain why a Dhaka cinema charged 300 BDT by day but 450 BDT at night in 2024.

Q6 Deduce what marginal revenue equals at the peak of a Nepalese mobile phone seller's total revenue curve.

Q7(a) Work out the percentage fall in UK bicycle sales from 2022 to 2023 using the sales figure chart.

Q7(b) Say what it means for a market to become less contestable, using the extract on online bicycle selling.

Q7(c) Analyse two reasons independent UK cycle shops stay small, using the competition extract and your own knowledge.

Q7(d) Examine two reasons UK bicycle shops had to shut in 2023, using the sales chart and both market extracts.

Q7(e) Discuss, with a cost and revenue diagram, ways Halfords might lift its returns after profit fell 18%.

Q10 Assess, with diagrams, the gains from expanding by combining firms, as Nigeria's Prembly did with Kenya's Peleza in 2024.

Q8 Assess, with diagrams, state action to shield workers and suppliers in a chosen market, prompted by West African cocoa farmers.

Q9 Assess, with diagrams, the gains when one firm naturally supplies a whole industry, as Sabesp does water in Sao Paulo.