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#1. One of the advantages of large - scale production is that

A) There is a rise in the cost of administration

B) Consumers sacrifice their individual tastes

C) The firm can use labour - saving machinery

D) The demand for a firm's products become localized

E) Decision making takes a long time because different levels of management are involved

#2. In the diagram I refers to the calculation of national income through the

A) Expenditure approach

B) Input - Output approach

C) Flows of funds approach

D) Income approach

E) Output approach

#3. In the diagram III refers to the calculationof national income through the

A) Income approach

B) Government earnings approach

C) Expenditure approach

D) Output approach

E) Flow of funds approach

#4. In the diagram, (I) refers to the calculation of national income through the

A) Expenditure approach

B) Input - Output approach

C) Flows of funds approach

D) Income approach

E) Output approach

#5. In the diagram, (III) refers to the calculation of national income through the

A) Income approach

B) Government earnings approach

C) Expenditure approach

D) Output approach

E) Flow of funds approach

#6. An improvement in Nigeria's terms of trade should

A) Lead to a fall in cost of her imports in terms of what she must sacrifice to obtain them

B) Make made in Nigeria goods cheaper to buy

C) Increase Nigeria's domestic output of commodities

D) Lead to an increase in her exchange rates

E) Lead to an increase in Nigeria's exports of petroleum

#7. If a person demands money for buying and selling securities. It is referred as demanding money for

A) Transaction purposes

B) Speculative purposes

C) Precautionary purposes

D) Meeting the educational expenses of the children

E) Carrying out gambling activities

#8. A rightward shift in the production possibility frontier may be due to

A) Use of inferior inputs

B) Inefficiency

C) Improvement in production techniques and practices

D) Changes in the product mix

E) Changes in consumer's tastes and preferences

#9. Let P x represent the price of exports and Pm the price of imports. Then the terms of trade (TOT) are said to be favourable if

A) P x P m

B) P x P m =1

C) P x P m >1

D) P x P m +1

#10. In the diagram, the supply curve So So shifts to a new position S1 S1 to indicate

A) a drop in supply

B) a rise in supply

C) a supply- push inflation

D) a stable supply curve

E) an increase in quantity supplied

#11. The diagram illustrates

A) the circular flow of income

B) gross national product plus depreciation

C) incomes of the private sector

D) the profit of business enterprises

E) the output approach to national income determination

#12. Which of the following items does NOT belong to a country's current account in the balance of payments accounts?

A) Merchandise exports

B) Merchandise import

C) Travel

D) Foreign currencies

E) Insurance services

#13. Which of the following is NOT a feature of economic underdevelopment of a country?

A) A large number of High income earners relative to the population

B) High annual income for the few

C) High incidence of poverty

D) Low daily calorie intake per person

E) High infant mortality rate

#14. Given the present state of the Nigeria economy,which of the following measures will promote more rapid economic development?

A) Complete dependence on oil exports

B) concentration on agricultural exports

C) Diversification of the economy

D) Building of more schools and universities

E) Introductionn of nuclear energy in Nigeria

#15. Which of the following does NOT represent the behavior of a monopolist?

A) Manipulating the market price of his goods

B) Manipulating both the price and quantity of his goods at the same time

C) Raising the price at one market, lowering it at another market

D) Manipulating only quantity, price being a given factor

E) Manipulating the quantity of his goods

#16. One of the major effects of an increase in government expenditure on a nation’s economy is that it?

A) creates investment opportunities for foreign investors

B) leads to indigenization of the private sector

C) raises the level of total tax revenue

D) raises the level of aggregate demand

E) controls the spread of monopoly

#17. Public expenditure on services, such as education and health, is known as expenditure on

A) general services

B) community services

C) social services

D) economic services

E) administrative services

#18. The following except ONE, are the differences between international trade and internal trade?

A) Diferences in currencies

B) Government control

C) Mobility of factors of production

D) Cultural differences

E) Exchange of Goods and services

#19. The most important characteristic of money is?

A) portability

B) intrisic value

C) acceptability

D) usefulness

E) beauty

#20. The Central Bank instrument of control does NOT include

A) open market operation

B) moral sanctions

C) reverse requirements

D) selective credit control

E) printing bank-notes

#21. Cost push inflation takes place due to?

A) the rapid increase in the demand for goods

B) an increase in productivity of the factors of production

C) a rise in the cost of production

D) a rise in the standard of living

E) the low wage rate of the workers

#22. Lord Keynes identified three motives for holding money, that is, keeping one’s resources in liquid form instead of in some form of investment. the motive which relates to making provision for the ‘rainy day’ is known as?

A) speculative motive

B) precautionary motive

C) transactions motive

D) investment motives

E) rainy day motive

#23. Generally, property taxes?

A) are borne entirely by landlords

B) cannot be shifted in the long run

C) are borne by all (renter, owner occupiers and landlords)

D) are borne only by renters

E) are borne by a few industrialist

#24. The channel for food distribution in Nigeria consist of?

A) farmers and their families

B) producers, wholesalers and retailers

C) producers and consumers

D) producers and processor

E) farmers, processors and consumers

#25. Which of the following is NOT true of debentures and debenture holders?

A) Debentures are instruments for rising long-term capital by limited liability companies

B) Debenture are fixed interest-bearing securities with specified maturity dates

C) Debentures holders are creditors to the company and therefore do not share in the risk of the company

D) Debenture holders are entitled to interest payments whether or not profits are made

E) Preference shareholders recieve their share of profits before debenture holders receive their entitlements

#26. The economic goal of public utilities is to?

A) maximize profit

B) expand assets

C) minimize costs

D) provide essential services

E) pay higher dividends to shareholders

#27. The basic principles of co-operative societies are those of?

A) active participation of capitalist in the affairs of co-operative societies

B) worker ownership and worker control

C) sole proprietorship

D) partnership

E) denying of credit facilities to members

#28. The most important factor determining the location of the cement industry in Nigeria today is ?

A) capital and government policy

B) the nature of the product, infrastructure and government policy

C) nearness to the market and source of power

D) Price of the product and source of labour

E) raw materials

#29. An imperfectly competitive market is one where?

A) a large number of firms sell homogenous products

B) input and output prices are unaffected

C) each firm faces aa horizontal demand curve

D) each firm maximize profit by selecting an output level at

E) commodities are differentiated

#30. In taxation, the benefit principle requires that?

A) everybody must draw benefit from taxation

B) all those who earn more income must pay more taxes

C) only those who derive benefit from services provided from public revenue should be taxed

D) taxes paid by businesses should be shifted to those consumers benefiting from such consumer commodities

E) everybody pays an equal amount

#31. A perfectly competitive firm does not influence the demand for its commodities bylowering its price below the market price because?

A) it is illegal price cutting

B) other competitors will be angry

C) total revenue will decline due to its elastic demand curve

D) it is able to sell all it wants at the market price

E) it does not maximize profit

#32. pricing and output decisions of sellers are highly interdependent in markets known as?

A) oligopoly

B) perfect competition

C) monopoly

D) monopolistic competition

E) imperfect competititon

#33. One disadvantage of sole proprietorship is its?

A) limited libility

B) high profits

C) high sense of ownership

D) low credit rating

E) low failure rate

#34. If X and Y are two goods, then the cross elasticity of demand for X WITH RESPECT TO y is defined as the?

A) percentage change in the quantity of X divded by the percentage change in the price of Y

B) percentage change in the quantity of X divided by change in the price of Y

C) change in the quantity of X divided by change in the price of Y

D) percentage change in the quantity of X divided by the price Y

E) percentage change in the price of X divided by percentage change in the quantity of Y

#35. For two substitution goods, the cross elastic of demand is?

A) greater than one but less than two

B) zero

C) negative

D) positive

E) infinity

#36. The control of prices by legislation usually produces a number of consequences. Which of the following is NOT an association problem of maximum price control?

A) Excess supply

B) Favouritism

C) Bribery and corruption

D) Bllack marketing

E) Hoarding

#37. For a non-discriminating monopolist in Nigeria, price at the profit maximizing output is

A) equal to marginal cost

B) greater than marginal cost

C) greater than average total cost

D) equal to marginal revenue

E) equal to toal revenue

#38. A demand curve slopes downwards because of ?

A) an increase inthe money income of the consumer

B) a decrease inthe money income of the consumer

C) the substitution effect and the rise in real income of the consumer

D) the rise in demand for the complementary goods

E) the increase in the demand for factors and production

#39. The advantages that accrue to a firm as the size of the firm increases are known as

A) external diseconomies

B) internal returns to scale

C) internal economies

D) internal diseconomies

E) constant returns to scale

#40. Which Of the following is NOT an obstacle to economic development?

A) Low level of investment

B) lack of modern technology

C) High rate of population growth

D) Low productivity

E) Dedicated leadership

#41. An aging population refers to the preponderance of?

A) middle-aged people in the population

B) young people in the population

C) women in the the population

D) old men in the population

E) old people in the population

#42. Which of the following is NOT a determinant of the size economically active population?

A) Age structure

B) Occupation of workers

C) Proportion of men to women

D) Average length of the working day

E) Efficiency of the labour force

#43. The population level that yields the maximum output when combined with available resources is known as

A) dependent population

B) maximum population

C) active population

D) productive population

E) optimum population

#44. The population level that yields the maximum output when combined with available resources is known as

A) dependent population

B) maximum population

C) active population

D) productive population

E) optimum population

#45. The main economic objective behind the production of goods and services in any economy is to?

A) maximize profits

B) satisfy human wants

C) become self reliant

D) create job opportunities

E) make people wealthy

#46. Demand for a commodity by a consumer is the quantity of that commodity that the consumer

A) demands at a given price at a point in time

B) demand at a given price

C) actually digests

D) produces, given its price

E) can store away during bnad weather

#47. Division of labour is limited by?

A) the size of market

B) the productivity of capital

C) cost of production

D) the factors of production

E) government policy

#48. In discussing the reasons why wages differ between occupations, which of the following should be regarded as a cardinal point that needs to be emphasized?

A) Length and cost of training

B) Demand and supply

C) attractiveness of the job

D) Influence of the trade union

E) Government intervention

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Economics Past Questions For JAMB/WAEC/NECO Students V7

Economics Past Questions For JAMB/WAEC/NECO Students V7

Results

#1. One of the advantages of large - scale production is that

#2. In the diagram I refers to the calculation of national income through the

#3. In the diagram III refers to the calculationof national income through the

#4. In the diagram, (I) refers to the calculation of national income through the

#5. In the diagram, (III) refers to the calculation of national income through the

#6. An improvement in Nigeria's terms of trade should

#7. If a person demands money for buying and selling securities. It is referred as demanding money for

#8. A rightward shift in the production possibility frontier may be due to

#9. Let P x represent the price of exports and Pm the price of imports. Then the terms of trade (TOT) are said to be favourable if

#10. In the diagram, the supply curve So So shifts to a new position S1 S1 to indicate

#11. The diagram illustrates

#12. Which of the following items does NOT belong to a country's current account in the balance of payments accounts?

#13. Which of the following is NOT a feature of economic underdevelopment of a country?

#14. Given the present state of the Nigeria economy,which of the following measures will promote more rapid economic development?

#15. Which of the following does NOT represent the behavior of a monopolist?

#16. One of the major effects of an increase in government expenditure on a nation’s economy is that it?

#17. Public expenditure on services, such as education and health, is known as expenditure on

#18. The following except ONE, are the differences between international trade and internal trade?

#19. The most important characteristic of money is?

#20. The Central Bank instrument of control does NOT include

#21. Cost push inflation takes place due to?

#22. Lord Keynes identified three motives for holding money, that is, keeping one’s resources in liquid form instead of in some form of investment. the motive which relates to making provision for the ‘rainy day’ is known as?

#23. Generally, property taxes?

#24. The channel for food distribution in Nigeria consist of?

#25. Which of the following is NOT true of debentures and debenture holders?

#26. The economic goal of public utilities is to?

#27. The basic principles of co-operative societies are those of?

#28. The most important factor determining the location of the cement industry in Nigeria today is ?

#29. An imperfectly competitive market is one where?

#30. In taxation, the benefit principle requires that?

#31. A perfectly competitive firm does not influence the demand for its commodities bylowering its price below the market price because?

#32. pricing and output decisions of sellers are highly interdependent in markets known as?

#33. One disadvantage of sole proprietorship is its?

#34. If X and Y are two goods, then the cross elasticity of demand for X WITH RESPECT TO y is defined as the?

#35. For two substitution goods, the cross elastic of demand is?

#36. The control of prices by legislation usually produces a number of consequences. Which of the following is NOT an association problem of maximum price control?

#37. For a non-discriminating monopolist in Nigeria, price at the profit maximizing output is

#38. A demand curve slopes downwards because of ?

#39. The advantages that accrue to a firm as the size of the firm increases are known as

#40. Which Of the following is NOT an obstacle to economic development?

#41. An aging population refers to the preponderance of?

#42. Which of the following is NOT a determinant of the size economically active population?

#43. The population level that yields the maximum output when combined with available resources is known as

#44. The population level that yields the maximum output when combined with available resources is known as

#45. The main economic objective behind the production of goods and services in any economy is to?

#46. Demand for a commodity by a consumer is the quantity of that commodity that the consumer

#47. Division of labour is limited by?

#48. In discussing the reasons why wages differ between occupations, which of the following should be regarded as a cardinal point that needs to be emphasized?

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