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Economics Past Questions and Answers

Economics Questions

Question 416:
The expression ‘terms of trade’ is used to describe
  • A Quality of export
  • B The direction of foreign trade
  • C Terms of purchase on deferred payment basis
  • D The rate at which export exchange for imports
  • E Import licensing
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Question 417:
If the demand of a product with perfectly elastic supply increases, there will be
  • A An increase in price and quantity offered
  • B An increase in quantity offered but price will remain the same
  • C A reduction in price and quantity offered
  • D An increase in price but a reduction in quantity offered for sale
  • E An increase in quantity offered but a reduction in price
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Question 418:
Which of these would not be included in the fundamental principle of a free enterprise economy
  • A Private ownership of factors of production
  • B The right to organize factor for production purposes
  • C The right to make private profit
  • D Government control of mobility of factor of production
  • E Government effort to encourage competitive capitalism within the law of the country
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Question 419:
Economics is called a social science because it is
  • A A branch of social studies
  • B A study of the ways man devises to satisfy his unlimited wants from unlimited resources
  • C A dismissal science in the Malthusian sense
  • D Governed by scientific law
  • E The study of human wants by the means of scientific method of observation
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Question 420:
Opportunity cost is a term which describe
  • A The initial cost of setting up a business venture
  • B Cost of one product in terms of foregone production of others
  • C The monetary equivalent of the utility of commodity
  • D Cost related to an optimum level of production
  • E Implicit cost
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