JAMB - Economics (2011)

  • 1
    An effective way of controlling inflation in a mixed economy is to
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    (A)
    increase productivity
  • 2
    One`of the limitations PPC assumption is that there is
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    (B)
    no recognition of preferred goods for countries
  • 3
    A major disadvantage of the arithmetic means is that it is
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    (D)
    affected by extreme data
  • 4
    Demand patterns are determined by the market on the basis of
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    (B)
    consumer sovereignty
  • 5
    A consumer surplus measures the
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    (C)
    difference between marginal utility and marginal cost
  • 6
    If the demand for one commodity excludes another, it is said to be
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    (B)
    competitive demand
  • 7
    If demand increases without a change in supply, equilibrium price and quantity will
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    (D)
    rise
  • 8
    In the process of production, total output is at maximum when
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    (A)
    MP=0
  • 9
    When a consumer is at equilibrium, the MRSxy is equal to the
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    (A)
    sum of the prices
  • 10
    Minimum price legislation by government will
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    (D)
    increase demand and create scarcity
  • 11
    Ranking is the method use in measuring
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    (B)
    ordinal utility
  • 12
    If a firm is faced with an elastic supply curve, its revenue will
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    (C)
    increase by more than the percentage increase in price
  • 13
    A firm will experience diseconomies of scale when
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    (A)
    there are difficulties in coordinating production
  • 14
    The law of variable proportions is applicable only
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    (D)
    in the short-run period
  • 15
    One of the characteristics of oligopoly is the availability of
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    (A)
    few sellers
  • 16
    Bank consolidation policy in Nigeria is a measure to increase
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    (A)
    the capital base of banks
  • 17
    An increase in the circulation of money without a corresponding increase in output will lead to
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    (C)
    inflation
  • 18
    In national income accounts, an item counted as part of government spending is
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    (D)
    social welfare
  • 19
    If aggregate demand is lower than total output in an economy national income will
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    (C)
    increase
  • 20
    During the era of barter, money was generally in the form of
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    (D)
    commodities
  • 21
    A country achieves economic development when there is
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    (C)
    a sustained increase in per capital income
  • 22
    An indicator of growth in an economy over a period of time is the
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    (C)
    GDP at market price
  • 23
    A country embarks on deficit financing in order to
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    (C)
    curb inflation
  • 24
    The import-substitution strategy of industrialization is to encourage
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    (A)
    domestic production
  • 25
    Upstream oil activities involve the
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    (C)
    exploration of crude oil
  • 26
    Agricultural production in Nigeria is constrained by
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    (C)
    poor implementation of policies
  • 27
    The main function of NNPC is to
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    (A)
    oversee the development of the oil sector
  • 28
    Investing heavily in the agricultural sector will lead to
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    (A)
    sufficient food production
  • 29
    Industrial development in Nigeria can be encouraged through
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    (B)
    granting subsidies
  • 30
    The record of a country's transactions in international trade is her
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    (B)
    balance of payments
  • 31
    The transfer to public shareholding corporations to private enterprises is
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    (D)
    privatization
  • 32
    A condition in which official and autonomous exchange rate coexist is
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    (D)
    multiple exchange rate system
  • 33
    In modern economies, the Malthusian theory of population is ineffective because of
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    (A)
    birth control measures
  • 34
    A change from one industry to another by a worker is an example of
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    (D)
    veritcal mobility
  • 35
    Trade takes place because of
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    (D)
    comparative advantage
  • 36
    The money paid per hour for work done is
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    (B)
    wage rate
  • 37
    The World Trade Organization is responsible for
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    (D)
    minimizing obstacles to international trade and investment
  • 38

    The graph of the schedule above will depict

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    (C)
    an abnormal demand curve
  • 39

    From that table above, the price elasticity of supply is

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    (C)
    1
  • 40

    From the Diagram above, the optimal point of production is

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    (D)
    S
  • 41

    The average total cost when 20 units are produced is

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    (D)
    N15.00
  • 42

    When 20 units of output is produced, TC will be

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    (B)
    N300
  • 43

    The deflationary gap is defined by

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    (B)
    K
  • 44

    What does X represent?

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    (C)
    inflationary gap
  • 45
    The median of an odd-numbered set of scores is the
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    (A)
    Middle value in the set