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SS3 Mock Examinations
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  • 1. What is the fundamental economic problem?
A) Inflation
B) Unemployment
C) Poverty
D) Scarcity
  • 2. Which economic system is characterized by private ownership?
A) Socialist
B) Command
C) Mixed
D) Capitalist
  • 3. What type of market structure has many buyers and sellers?
A) Oligopoly
B) Monopoly
C) Perfect Competition
D) Monopsony
  • 4. What is the purpose of fiscal policy?
A) To control inflation
B) To promote economic growth
C) To reduce unemployment
D) All of the above
  • 5. A Minimum price legislation is also called
A) Price control
B) Price mechanism
C) Price floor
D) Price Ceiling
  • 6. Which of the following factors is not a cause of change in demand? Changes in
A) the size of the population
B) income distribution
C) taste and fashion
D) price of the commodity
  • 7. If the quantity demanded of a commodity increases from 20 units to 30 units when there is an increase in price from $4.00 to $5.00, the elasticity of demand is
A) 2.50
B) 0.50
C) 0.65
D) 2.00
  • 8. The use of the bank rate, cash ratio and open market operations constitute
A) fiscal policy
B) import policy
C) export policy
D) monetary policy
  • 9. Scale of Preference shows
A) utilities enjoyed by consumers
B) Incomes of consumer in order of size
C) consumer’s wants in order of priority
D) opportunity cost of goods consumed
  • 10. Gross National Product (GNP) less the provision for the wear and tear of assets is the
A) net national product
B) net indirect taxes
C) net present value
D) net factor income
  • 11. In perfectly elastic supply, the supply curve
A) Slopes upward
B) Is Vertical
C) Slopes downward
D) Is Horizontal
  • 12. An example of transfer payments in national income accounting is
A) the amount paid to a worker on transfer
B) money transferred to another country
C) transfer of funds from one bank to another
D) unemployment allowance paid to the citizens
  • 13. Which of the following industries will add more value to primary products?
A) Construction industry
B) Mining industry
C) Service industry
D) Processing industry
  • 14. A consumer of a single commodity is in equilibrium when
A) his marginal utility is equal to zero
B) he can equate his demand with price
C) he equates marginal utility and price
D) he can equate his marginal and total utilities
  • 15. Foreign investment and long term securities in the balance of payment accounts are recorded as
A) invisible balance account transaction
B) capital account transaction
C) balance of trade account transaction
D) current account transaction
  • 16. A benefit that is present in all forms of economic integration is that
A) common currency is in use
B) factors of production are free to move and be moved
C) the size of the market is widened
D) common agricultural policy is in place
  • 17. Points within a Production Possibilities Curve (PPC) indicate
A) attainable and efficient production levels.
B) optimum production levels.
C) unattainable production levels.
D) attainable but inefficient production levels.
  • 18. Which of the following is not a feature of labour?
A) it’s reward is wages and salaries
B) it is highly mobile
C) it’s efficiency depends on its size
D) it is an active factor
  • 19. The pursuit of private profits is a feature of
A) capitalist economies
B) statutory corporations
C) command economies
D) socialist economies
  • 20. A major feature of the socialist economic system is
A) private ownership of productive inputs.
B) freedom of choice for consumers.
C) determination of price by market forces.
D) setting of production targets by public authorities.
  • 21. If the budget on education is $50 m out of an annual national budget of $300 m. The sector of a pie chart representing education is
A) 150°
B) 300°
C) 60°
D) 16.6°
  • 22. Price elasticity of demand is the responsiveness of quantity demanded to a change in
A) price of another product
B) income of the buyer
C) price of the product
D) demand for the product
  • 23. When total revenue increases as price falls, the coefficient of price elasticity of demand is
A) less than one
B) one
C) greater than one
D) zero
  • 24. If the quantity demanded of rice de- creased from 150 bags to 100 bags, the percentage change in quantity demanded is
A) 33.3%
B) 80%
C) 65%
D) 30%
  • 25. The law of demand will not hold when
A) normal goods are involved
B) income and consumers increase
C) rare commodities are involved
D) size of the population changes
  • 26. The diagram above shows the demand for milk. Use it to answer questions this question.



    The movement from point x to z might have been caused by
A) a favorable weather condition
B) a change in taste in favour of milk
C) a decrease in the price of milk
D) an increase in income of consumers
  • 27. The diagram above shows the demand for milk. Use it to answer this question.

    If demand for postal services decline as a result of increased use of e-mails, then the two services are in
A) composite demand
B) complementary demand
C) competitive demand
D) derived demand
  • 28. Other things being equal, an increase in the demand for land in the short-run will cause an increase in the
A) price only
B) supply only
C) quantity supplied only
D) price and supply
  • 29. If the coefficient of price elasticity of supply of a commodity is 0.8, then supply is
A) perfectly inelastic
B) fairly inelastic
C) perfectly elastic
D) fairly elastic
  • 30. The negative slope of the demand curve is best explained by
A) increasing return to scale
B) consumer’s choice
C) diminishing returns to scale
D) diminishing marginal utility
  • 31. Minimum price legislation is used to protect the interests of
A) government
B) foreign companies
C) consumers
D) small scale producers
  • 32. Which of the following best explains diseconomies of scale? Increase in output causes the
A) firm to be de-stabilized
B) average cost to rise
C) marginal cost to fall
D) marginal revenue to fall
  • 33. In the short-run, a firm can increase output by
A) increasing the size of its machines
B) changing its organizational structure
C) purchasing more equipments
D) increasing the quantity of raw materials
  • 34. The fixed cost of producing 100 units of a good is $600. If the variable cost is $400. the average total cost of one unit of the good is
A) $10
B) $8
C) $4
D) $15
  • 35. Firms in perfect competition break even in the long-run because
A) new firms can not enter the market due to copyright laws.
B) marginal revenue is greater than marginal cost at all levels.
C) profits are not enough to repay traders' loans.
D) more firms can enter the industry due to attractive prof its.
  • 36. The government policy that encourages public corporations to operate profitably is
A) indigenization
B) liberalization
C) nationalization
D) commercialization
  • 37. Warehousing of goods in the process of distribution is the function of
A) departmental stores
B) retailers
C) wholesalers
D) supermarkets
  • 38. The supply of labour to an occupation will tend to rise when
A) there are less monetary benefits
B) welfare packages improve
C) holiday entitlement is cut
D) unemployment benefit rises
  • 39. In determining the growth of a country's population, infant mortality is a component of
A) death rate
B) fertility rate
C) immigration rate
D) net migration
  • 40. The low productivity per worker in agriculture experienced in West African countries is due to
A) the law of increasing returns to scale
B) the use of simple traditional implements
C) laziness on the part of farmers
D) the presence of many extension workers
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