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Consumer surplus is the difference between the market price and the maximum price the consumer would be willing to pay. The amount that the consumer benefits. On the diagram is is the top triangle shown in blue.

Producer surplus is the difference between the minimum price the producer would be willing to sell for and the market price. It is the triangular area below the consumer surplus shown in red.

The yellow area represents the costs to the firm of producing the good. Together the yellow and red represent the revenue of the firm.

Also See

Take a look at the other unit 1 A level economics revision notes:

• The Economic Problem (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
• Factors of production (AQA, OCR)
• Positive and normative economics (AQA)
• Specialisation and Trade (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
• Producer and consumer surplus (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
• Demand theory (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
• Supply theory (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
• Supply and Demand Equilibrium (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
• Elasticity of demand (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
• Elasticity of supply (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
• The Price Mechanism (AQA, Edex)
• Indirect Taxes and Subsidies (Edex)
• The labour market (Edex)
• Economies of scale (AQA)
• Allocative efficiency (OCR)

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