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Economics Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Economics Questions

Question 6:
Efficiency in production involves?
  • A Reducing the size of the workforce
  • B Producing a given output with the lowest cost combination of factors of production
  • C Adoption of capital-intensive technology
  • D Increasing the quantity of the fixed factor of production
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Question 7:
if X represent the factors of production and Y represent the factor price, which of the following sets of association is correct?
  • A (land, rent) (capital, wage), (labour, profit)
  • B (land, interest) (capital,profit), (labour, wage),
  • C (land, wage), (capital, interest), (labour,rent),
  • D (land,rent), (capital, interest), (labour, wage),
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Question 8:
If the cost of production for a firm continues to increase as it output rises, the firm is said to be experiencing?
  • A Large-scale production
  • B Profit maximization
  • C Economies of scale
  • D Diseconomies of scale
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Question 9:
Given perfect competition in the capital market, the opportunity cost of capital is adequately reflected by the?
  • A Interest rate
  • B Returns on capital
  • C Alternative capital foregone
  • D Shadow price of foreign exchange
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Question 10:
If a 10k per kg, 1000kg of yam were purchased and at 5k per kg, 1,500kg were purchased, the resultant point elasticity of demand is?
  • A 0.33
  • B 0.0001
  • C 1
  • D 10,000
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