diff --git a/samples/azure-quantum/variational-quantum-eigensolver/VQE-qiskit-hydrogen-ionq-sim.ipynb b/samples/azure-quantum/variational-quantum-eigensolver/VQE-qiskit-hydrogen-ionq-sim.ipynb
index a908c3e154f9..5669af2ecb9d 100644
--- a/samples/azure-quantum/variational-quantum-eigensolver/VQE-qiskit-hydrogen-ionq-sim.ipynb
+++ b/samples/azure-quantum/variational-quantum-eigensolver/VQE-qiskit-hydrogen-ionq-sim.ipynb
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@
    "source": [
     "num_iterations = 300\n",
     "energy_eval_cost = sum(_cost.estimated_total for _cost in cost)\n",
-    "print(f\"Single iteration: {energy_eval_cost} {_cost.currency_code}, {num_iterations} iterations: {energy_eval_cost * num_iterations} {_cost.currency_code}\")"
+    "print(f\"Single iteration: {energy_eval_cost} {cost[0].currency_code}, {num_iterations} iterations: {energy_eval_cost * num_iterations} {cost[0].currency_code}\")"
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/samples/azure-quantum/variational-quantum-eigensolver/VQE-qiskit-hydrogen-quantinuum-emulator.ipynb b/samples/azure-quantum/variational-quantum-eigensolver/VQE-qiskit-hydrogen-quantinuum-emulator.ipynb
index 85176683864e..22eca904a57e 100644
--- a/samples/azure-quantum/variational-quantum-eigensolver/VQE-qiskit-hydrogen-quantinuum-emulator.ipynb
+++ b/samples/azure-quantum/variational-quantum-eigensolver/VQE-qiskit-hydrogen-quantinuum-emulator.ipynb
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
     "# Create a VQE object that runs VQE using the above created qubit operations, variational form and optimizer\n",
     "vqe = VQE(qubit_op, var_form, optimizer=optimizer)\n",
     "\n",
-    "# Run the full VQE program\n",
+    "# Run the full VQE program. This might take up to 50 seconds to run on the noisy simulator.\n",
     "ret = vqe.run(quantum_instance)\n",
     "\n",
     "# Get and print the result\n",
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@
    "source": [
     "num_iterations = 300\n",
     "energy_eval_cost = sum(_cost.estimated_total for _cost in cost)\n",
-    "print(f\"Single iteration: {energy_eval_cost} {_cost.currency_code}, {num_iterations} iterations: {energy_eval_cost * num_iterations} {_cost.currency_code}\")"
+    "print(f\"Single iteration: {energy_eval_cost} {cost[0].currency_code}, {num_iterations} iterations: {energy_eval_cost * num_iterations} {cost[0].currency_code}\")"
    ]
   },
   {