Shayla Explains That She Is Having White Pasta with a Cream

question 46

Multiple Choice

Shayla explains that she is having white pasta with a cream sauce for dinner. She notes that she will be following Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide as she will be having a serving from the grain products and milk and alternatives groups. What would you say about her choices?

• A)She should not eat pasta or milk products because they have too many kilocalories.
• B)She should change her meal to whole wheat pasta and replace half the cream with tomato sauce.
• C)She should eat the white pasta and cream sauce because the fibre and calcium off-set the kilocalories.
• D)She should replace the white pasta with white rice and the cream sauce with soy sauce.

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Definitions:

Marginal Cost

The increase in cost resulting from the production of one additional unit of a good.

Variable Cost

Costs that change in proportion to the level of activity or volume of production in a company.

AVC

Average Variable Cost, which refers to the total variable cost per unit of output in a business, where variable costs change with the level of production.

MC

Marginal Cost, the cost of producing one additional unit of a product or service.