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Economics Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Economics Questions

Question 16:
The process by which West African countries attempt to reduce the import of manufactured goods by encouraging firms to produce these goods at homes is known as?
  • A Industrialization
  • B Export-promotion
  • C Import-substitution
  • D Export--substitution
  • E Import-expansion
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Question 17:
Economics may be defined as?
  • A The study of money and banking
  • B The study of markets and prices
  • C The study of production and distribution
  • D The study of human behaviour in the allocation of scarce resources
  • E The study of the employment of labour, land, and capital
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Question 18:
Elasticity of demand is given by
  • A The prcentage change in quantity demanded divided by the corresponding percentage change in price
  • B The percentage change in price divided by the corresponding percentage change in quantity demanded
  • C The percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the corresponding price
  • D The percentage change in price divided by the corresponding quantity demanded
  • E None of the above
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Question 19:
If a commodity has many substitutes, it is most likely that?
  • A The demand curve is fairly inelastic
  • B The demand curve is fairly elastic
  • C The demand curve is paraell to the quantity axis
  • D The demand curve is positively sloped
  • E The price of the commodity is too high
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Question 20:
Which of the following statement does NOT describe a situation of perfect competition.?
  • A The firm faces an infinitely elastic demand curve
  • B The firm makes no pure profit in the short run
  • C The price does not change with changes in the output level of the firm
  • D There is freedom of entry into, and exit out of the industry
  • E The firm can sell all it produces at the market price
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