JAMB - Economics (1988)

  • 1
    Scarcity in economics means that?
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    (D)
    resources are limited in relation to wants
  • 2
    Economic is often described as a science because?
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    (C)
    it uses scientific methods to explain observed phenomena and predict future events
  • 3
    When a variable is associated with time period, it is?
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    (A)
    a flow
  • 4
    Ufuoma is a consumer. His scale of preference shows that he prefers a pair of shoes to a wrist watch; he prefers the wrist watch to a pair of trousers; he prefers the pair of trousers to the pair of shoes. This means that Ufuoma is
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    (C)
    inconsistent
  • 5
    Air is essential to life but commands no price!
    Diamond is not essential to life but commands a high?
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    (B)
    value
  • 6
    The average product of labour in a given period is obtained by dividing the?
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    (D)
    total product by the number of workers
  • 7
    Development outside a given firm which reduce the firm costs are called?
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    (B)
    external economies
  • 8
    Which of the following BEST describes the production function?
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    (C)
    it relates physical outputs to physical inputs
  • 9
    The law of Diminishing Returns begins to operate when?
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    (C)
    marginal product begins to fall
  • 10
    The assumption of profit maximization implies profit?
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    (A)
    is the most important consideration of the firm
  • 11
    Total fixed cost measures the cost of?
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    (B)
    all assets where quantity cannot be varied in the short run
  • 12
    The output at which total revenue equals total cost is known as?
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    (B)
    break even level output
  • 13
    A commodity is said to have a derived demand when the commodity
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    (B)
    is demanded because of what it can help to produce
  • 14
    If goods were free, a rational consumer would consume?
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    (D)
    the amount where marginal utility was the highest
  • 15
    Which of the following changes in equilibrium price and quantity is as a result of an upward shift in the market demand for a commodity?
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    (D)
    Both the price and the quantity rise
  • 16
    One factor which influences the slope of a non-linear demand curve for a commodity is the?
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    (C)
    availability of substitutes
  • 17
    One of the characteristics of an imperfect market is?
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    (B)
    a lack of homogeneity of products
  • 18
    Total revenue is always equal to?
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    (D)
    average revenue multiplied by the quantity sold
  • 19
    If prices fall in a perfectly competitive industry, the firms in that industry in the short run will?
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    (C)
    reduce production
  • 20
    Which of the following is TRUE at the quantity of output where Average Cost (AC) per unit has reached its minimum level?
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    (C)
    MC=AC
  • 21
    In the short run, the monopolistic competitors?
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    (A)
    always makes profit
  • 22
    Price leadership is?
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    (A)
    a form of tacit collusion
  • 23
    The additional revenue obtained by using one more unit of a factor is called?
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    (D)
    marginal revenue product
  • 24
    In a public company, enterpreneurial functions are performed by the?
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    (D)
    board of directors
  • 25
    The most important limitation on the partner as a form of business enterprise is the?
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    (B)
    legal limitation placed on the number of partners
  • 26
    Under partnership, investors who have no desires to be actively involved in the day-to-day management of such organization, are called?
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    (B)
    sleeping partners
  • 27
    Localization of industries refers to the?
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    (A)
    tendency to concentrate industries in particular areas
  • 28
    Restriction on credit creation by commercial banks can be effected through?
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    (D)
    liquidity ratio
  • 29
    Which of the following factors enhances the ability of commercial banks to create money?
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    (A)
    Reduction in the reserve ratio
  • 30
    In any economy, what is used as money is determined by?
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    (A)
    government acceptance commodity standard
  • 31
    The rate at which money changes hands is known as the?
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    (D)
    velocity of circulation
  • 32
    Merchants banks perform all the following functions EXCEPT?
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    (B)
    provision of current account facilities
  • 33
    Which of the following is a direct tax?
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    (D)
    property tax
  • 34
    Which of the following would most likely be considered an example of benefit taxation?
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    (D)
    Highway-user tax
  • 35
    When a nation is experiencing balance of payment surplus, it is in a better position to?
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    (A)
    increase its foreign exchange reserves
  • 36
    Which of the following is a good example of invisible item on balance of payments account?
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    (A)
    Shipping and aviation
  • 37
    Deficit financing is mostly facilitated by the existence of?
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    (C)
    central bank
  • 38
    The Malthusian theory of population predicts that growth in food production will?
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    (C)
    be at a slower rate tthan population growth
  • 39
    If aggregate income is N500.00 and aggregate consumption is N400.00, this means that the average propensity to consume is?
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    (B)
    0.80
  • 40
    Which of the following items is subtracted when computing Gross National Product at factor cost, by the expenditure method?
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    (B)
    Indirect taxes
  • 41
    In estimating the national income of a country, the three approaches usually adopted are the?
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    (C)
    expenditure,income and output
  • 42
    If technology becomes less capital-intensive, it means?
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    (B)
    an increase in the capital/ratio
  • 43
    The most threatening problem for the less developed countries is?
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    (C)
    population explosion
  • 44
    An increase in an economy's productive capacity implies?
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    (B)
    an increase in the economy's capital stock
  • 45
    Collectivism refers to the system of management of state enterprises in a?
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    (D)
    socialist economy