Economics JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

43

The residual of production which accrues to the owner of land after all other expenses have been met is called?

  • A. wages
  • B. rent
  • C. interest
  • D. profit
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44

Efficiency of labour is enhanced by?

  • A. Average Total Cost less the sum of Varriable Cost
  • B. half the sum of all costs
  • C. Total Fixed Cost divided by the the level of output
  • D. Total Fixed Cost plus Marginal Cost
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45

Labour productivity is defined as?

  • A. output per man/hour
  • B. average output
  • C. the maximum number of hours worked
  • D. total level of output
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46

The additional revenue obtained by using one more unit of a factor is called its?

  • A. marginal product
  • B. additional product
  • C. marginal revenue product
  • D. average product
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47

Market is defined as?

  • A. one geographical location where people meet to buy and sell
  • B. the demand and supply of goods and services
  • C. a group of people whose sole interest is to make profit
  • D. any organizational framework which links the buyers and sellers of a good and service
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48

Which of the following best describes the concept of opportunity cost?

  • A. a special bargain or scale at below market price
  • B. Cost of input tends to go up as we use more of them
  • C. Goods that are not produced in order to produce more of another good
  • D. A cost that constantly decreases
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49

The study of economic behavior of individual decision-making units (consumers, resources owners and business firms) in a free-enterprise economy is known as?

  • A. microeconomics
  • B. macroeconomics
  • C. production
  • D. indifference curve
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50

A production possibility curve shows?

  • A. how much of the resources of society are used to produce a particular commodity
  • B. the rate of inflation
  • C. the rate of unemployment in the economy
  • D. the various combinations of two commodities that can be produced
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