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1849

Which of the following is not a negative effect of inflation

  • A. Lenders earn less
  • B. Pensioneers and salary earners on fixed income suffer
  • C. Exports tends to decline
  • D. Savings are discouraged
  • E. Borrowers tends to gain
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1850

Which of the following is not characteristics of a perfect competition ?

  • A. many sellers and buyers are in the market
  • B. there is perfect knowledge of the market situation
  • C. supply and demand are equal
  • D. there is no discrimination
  • E. Products are identical
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1851

Near Money is made up of

  • A. very liquid asset which can be easily converted into money
  • B. currency in circulation and demand deposit
  • C. note and coins
  • D. fixed assets which cannot be converted into money
  • E. the total money supplied in the economy
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1852

A stockholder partakes of the profit of a l8imited liability business by receiving

  • A. shares
  • B. profit
  • C. wages and salaries
  • D. dividends
  • E. gifts
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1853

which of the following does not increase the population of country

  • A. an increase in birth rate
  • B. a decrease in death rate
  • C. emigration
  • D. immigration
  • E. Early marriage
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1854

Money as a unit of account implies that it can be

  • A. counted in units
  • B. use to facilitate exchange
  • C. used to measure the value of goods and services
  • D. used to store goods and services
  • E. used for future payment
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1855

if the price of margarine rises substantially, the equilibrium price and quantity of butter demand will

  • A. decrease
  • B. increase
  • C. remain constant
  • D. fluctuate
  • E. be inelastic
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1856

The market price of a commodity is determine by the

  • A. total number of people in the market
  • B. total demand for the commodity
  • C. quantity of the commodity supplied
  • D. interaction of demand and supply
  • E. law of demand
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1857

Economic growth is the

  • A. rate of increase in a country's full employment and real output
  • B. rate of increase in a nation's total population
  • C. rate of increase in inflation
  • D. rate of decrease inflation
  • E. growth in birth rate
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1858

Money becomes a very poor store
money becomes a very poor stone of value in a period of

  • A. deflation
  • B. stable prices
  • C. recession
  • D. inflation
  • E. harvest
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1859

A society that is on its production possibility curve

  • A. has attained full employment but not full production
  • B. has attained full production but not full employment
  • C. is using its resources inefficiently
  • D. has attained both full employment and full production
  • E. has a lower output level than it should have
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1860

which of the following defines Economics most comprehensively ?

  • A. The study of buying and selling
  • B. The organization of industries and markets
  • C. The study of human behaviour in the allocation of scarce resources
  • D. National development, planning and budgeting
  • E. The study of market forces as they affected human behaviour
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1861

which of the following is not a characteristics of money?

  • A. Scarcity
  • B. Durability
  • C. Divisibility
  • D. Homogeneity
  • E. Mobility
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1862

In Economics production is complete when

  • A. goods are produced in the factories
  • B. goods are sold to wholesalers
  • C. prices are fixed for goods and services
  • D. goods and services reach the consumer
  • E. goods are sold to retailers
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1863

The equilibrium price of orange is 50k. If for some reason the price rises to 60k, there will be

  • A. excess demand
  • B. excess supply
  • C. shortage in the market
  • D. many buyers in the market
  • E. no buyer in the market
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1864

the most basic concern of economists is to

  • A. create human wants
  • B. saisfy all human wants
  • C. redistrubute income so that it is used correctly
  • D. create perfect competition
  • E. allocate scarce resources to satisfy human wants
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1865

Opportunity cost is define as the

  • A. money cost
  • B. cost of production
  • C. real cost
  • D. variable cost
  • E. fixed cost
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1866

Scarcity in Economics generally refers to

  • A. a period of production
  • B. hoarding of goods
  • C. monopolization of existing supply of resources
  • D. period of famine
  • E. resources being limited
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1867

Economics is a social science because it

  • A. deals with an aspect of hman behaviour
  • B. provides people with commodity they want
  • C. deals with limited resources which have alternative uses
  • D. deals with the production of goods for present and future consumption
  • E. is related to how choice is made
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1868

Which of the following is not an argument for locating industries in rural areas?

  • A. Rural areas supply agricultural raw materials
  • B. the pace of development of rural areas will be quicken
  • C. Employment will be for rural inhabitants
  • D. capital is easily available in rural areas
  • E. Rural-urban migration will decrease
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1869

Palm oil industry in located in Bendel State because the state

  • A. imports raw materials for the industry
  • B. has a poor soil which is unsuitable for other crops
  • C. is a palm-tree growing area
  • D. government does not engage in the growing of other crops
  • E. has the highest demands for apl oil in Nigeria
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