JAMB UTME - Economics - 1988

Ufuoma is a consumer. His scale of preference shows that he prefers a pair of shoes to a wrist watch; he prefers the wrist watch to a pair of trousers; he prefers the pair of trousers to the pair of shoes. This means that Ufuoma is

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Which of the following would most likely be considered an example of benefit taxation?

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Deficit financing is mostly facilitated by the existence of?

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If goods were free, a rational consumer would consume?

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Which of the following factors enhances the ability of commercial banks to create money?

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Reserve ratio is one of instrument that central bank use to control the activities of commercial banks across the nation. So, a reduction in this reserve ratio will make commercial banks to lend more to the public which in turn yield more interest for them.

The output at which total revenue equals total cost is known as?

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A commodity is said to have a derived demand when the commodity

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A textile firm operates a plant in the North (where capital expensive relative to labour)as well as a plant in the South (where labour is expensive relative to capital ). In this diagram above the Southern plant will minimize cost by combining labour and capital in the amounts indicated by

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Which of the following items is subtracted when computing Gross National Product at factor cost, by the expenditure method?

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The group of unemployed members of a community who are physically handicapped or disabled, is generally classified under unemployment as?

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The law of Diminishing Returns begins to operate when?

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In any economy, what is used as money is determined by?

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If prices fall in a perfectly competitive industry, the firms in that industry in the short run will?

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Total revenue is always equal to?

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When a nation is experiencing balance of payment surplus, it is in a better position to?

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Which of the following is TRUE at the quantity of output where Average Cost (AC) per unit has reached its minimum level?

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Under partnership, investors who have no desires to be actively involved in the day-to-day management of such organization, are called?

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Restriction on credit creation by commercial banks can be effected through?

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Which of the following BEST describes the production function?

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

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Localization of industries refers to the?

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One factor which influences the slope of a non-linear demand curve for a commodity is the?

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Which of the following is a direct tax?

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Which of the following occurs in the circular flow of economic activities with no leakages

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If in this demand-supply diagram, the quantity supplied is OQ, then

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Price leadership is?

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In the short run, the monopolistic competitors?

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Total fixed cost measures the cost of?

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Which of the following changes in equilibrium price and quantity is as a result of an upward shift in the market demand for a commodity?

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When a variable is associated with time period, it is?

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Economic is often described as a science because?

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Merchants banks perform all the following functions EXCEPT?

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Scarcity in economics means that?

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Which of the following is a good example of invisible item on balance of payments account?

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The Malthusian theory of population predicts that growth in food production will?

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The assumption of profit maximization implies profit?

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Collectivism refers to the system of management of state enterprises in a?

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If aggregate income is N500.00 and aggregate consumption is N400.00, this means that the average propensity to consume is?

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The most important limitation on the partner as a form of business enterprise is the?

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The most threatening problem for the less developed countries is?

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The demand and supply equations for a commodity are given respectively as D = 20 - 1/2P; S = 8 + 1/4P. Recalling that at equilibrium, D = S, the equilibrium (P) and quantity (Q) can be obtained as

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The average product of labour in a given period is obtained by dividing the?

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Development outside a given firm which reduce the firm costs are called?

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In estimating the national income of a country, the three approaches usually adopted are the?

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One of the characteristics of an imperfect market is?

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The rate at which money changes hands is known as the?

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In a public company, enterpreneurial functions are performed by the?

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If technology becomes less capital-intensive, it means?

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An increase in an economy's productive capacity implies?

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