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title: The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss — how Mova does on the tests · Money
description: Lesson 31 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss

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**Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 31 of the money course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Ava shouts, "We made a tenner, we're rich, slay!" ("Slay" means doing amazing.) Sam says, "We spent a fiver, though." What's the real profit?

- **1.** £15 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** £50 — no support
- **3.** £5 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** £10 — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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What would happen if Sam and Ava charged £5 a cup?

- **1.** They'd make £100 for sure — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** Everybody would buy more, because it's fancier — no support
- **3.** The lemons would get cheaper to buy — no support
- **4.** Hardly anyone would buy, and they could take less money — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 2: «Picture Sam and Ava's stand: lemons, sugar and cups cost £5, and they sell 20 cups at 50p, so £10 comes in; Ava shouts "We made £10!", but Sam is right, they o…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same doer «sam» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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A Scouse customer says, "That lemonade's boss, la, but 50p's a bit much when yer man next door's doin' 40p." ("Boss" means great; "la" means mate.) What's going on?

- **1.** Profit: they have made too much money already — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Competition: a rival sells cheaper, so some customers move — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Quality: the lemonade is terrible and nobody buys — no support
- **4.** Stock: they have run out of lemons and cups — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Your mate says, "If it rains you can't lose money, you just sell less." They spent £5 and sold 6 cups at 50p. What's true?

- **1.** They lost £2, so you can lose money — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** They made £5, because costs don't count — no support
- **3.** They made £3 profit, so no loss — no support
- **4.** They broke even, so nothing changed — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 10: «Shops cover the money they lose to stealing partly by raising prices, so honest customers pay too.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lose» (+4); the same thing acted on «money» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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In a game, your lemonade stand earns money even with no customers, as long as the sun is out. What's wrong?

- **1.** Nothing, real stands earn while nobody buys — no support
- **2.** Real stands earn money from the sun shining — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** In real life money only comes in when customers buy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Real stands are paid by the council per hour — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 15: «Real notes have security features such as see-through windows and tilting pictures; fake money is worth nothing and making it is a serious crime.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same thing acted on «money» (+4). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Sam keeps a notebook: "Lemons £2, sugar £1, cups £2 — oh, and 50p for a sign — takings £12." What's the profit now?

- **1.** £6.50 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** £5.50 — no support
- **3.** £7 — no support
- **4.** £7.50 — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Ava wants to split the £8 profit 50-50, then Sam says, "I did more, gimme £6." ("Gimme" means give me.) If they had agreed 75-25 at the start, what would Sam get?

- **1.** £8 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** £2 — no support
- **3.** £4 — no support
- **4.** £6 — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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A Canadian kid at the stand says, "Your lemonade's sour, eh, I'm going to Tim's." (Tim Hortons is a big coffee chain in Canada.) What does this show?

- **1.** Price is the only thing that matters — no support
- **2.** Quality matters: bad taste sends customers to rivals — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Canadians never buy lemonade from kids — no support
- **4.** Sour lemonade always sells better — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 4: «The price matters too: at £2 a cup hardly anyone buys, at 50p lots do, and when the kid next door sells at 40p, customers drift away unless your lemonade is be…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «lemonade» (+3); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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They sell 10 biscuits at 30p. Sam says, "Biscuits made us £3 profit." The pack cost £1. Is he right?

- **1.** No, £3 is the takings; profit is £2 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No, the profit is £4, adding the pack — no support
- **3.** No, the biscuits made a loss of £1 — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** Yes, takings and profit are the same thing — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 12: «Adding a new product adds its own cost and profit: 10 biscuits at 30p bring £3, and if the pack cost £1, the biscuits make £2 profit.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same doer «biscuits» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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They buy 20 lemons at 20p but use only 12. Next time, how many should they buy to waste none, if they sell the same?

- **1.** 20 — no support
- **2.** 12 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12
- **3.** 8 — no support
- **4.** 32 — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 17: «Stock is the things a business keeps to sell or use; 20 lemons at 20p cost £4, and if only 12 are used, the 8 that go bad waste 8 × 20p = £1.60.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «things» (+4); the same thing acted on «12» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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What would happen to the profit if they sold 20 cups at 50p but the costs went up to £8?

- **1.** Profit would stay at £5 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They would make a loss of £8 — no support
- **3.** Profit would rise to £18 — no support
- **4.** Profit would fall to £2 — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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It is given that the costs of an enterprise amount to £5 and its revenue to £10. Determine the profit.

- **1.** £50 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** £10 — no support
- **3.** £5 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** £15 — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Ascertain the outcome of trading where six units are sold at fifty pence each, whereas costs of £5 have been incurred.

- **1.** A loss of £2 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A loss of £5 — no support
- **3.** A profit of £3 — no support
- **4.** A profit of £2 — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the distinction between takings and profit?

- **1.** Takings are the sum remaining after profit has been deducted — score 10
- **2.** Profit is the sum remaining after costs have been deducted from takings — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12
- **3.** Takings and profit are identical in every respect — score 12
- **4.** Profit is the sum of takings and costs together — score 12

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 12, tied with another option at 12 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 31, line 15: «Many people mix up takings and profit; profit is only what is left after costs.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «profit» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Identify the principal reason for which the partners in an enterprise should agree upon the division of profit before trading commences.

- **1.** Compliance with a requirement that all profit be paid as tax — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The determination of the price of the goods sold — no support
- **3.** The avoidance of disputes once the profit is known — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The prevention of any profit from being made — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/e4/)

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