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SS3 Mock Examinations
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  • 1. What is the fundamental economic problem?
A) Scarcity
B) Inflation
C) Unemployment
D) Poverty
  • 2. Which economic system is characterized by private ownership?
A) Socialist
B) Capitalist
C) Mixed
D) Command
  • 3. What type of market structure has many buyers and sellers?
A) Monopoly
B) Perfect Competition
C) Oligopoly
D) Monopsony
  • 4. What is the purpose of fiscal policy?
A) To reduce unemployment
B) To promote economic growth
C) To control inflation
D) All of the above
  • 5. A Minimum price legislation is also called
A) Price floor
B) Price control
C) Price mechanism
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) price of the commodity
C) taste and fashion
D) income distribution
  • 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) 0.50
B) 2.00
C) 2.50
D) 0.65
  • 8. The use of the bank rate, cash ratio and open market operations constitute
A) export policy
B) import policy
C) fiscal policy
D) monetary policy
  • 9. Scale of Preference shows
A) Incomes of consumer in order of size
B) utilities enjoyed by consumers
C) opportunity cost of goods consumed
D) consumer’s wants in order of priority
  • 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 factor income
D) net present value
  • 11. In perfectly elastic supply, the supply curve
A) Is Horizontal
B) Slopes upward
C) Is Vertical
D) Slopes downward
  • 12. An example of transfer payments in national income accounting is
A) transfer of funds from one bank to another
B) unemployment allowance paid to the citizens
C) the amount paid to a worker on transfer
D) money transferred to another country
  • 13. Which of the following industries will add more value to primary products?
A) Service industry
B) Construction industry
C) Processing industry
D) Mining industry
  • 14. A consumer of a single commodity is in equilibrium when
A) he can equate his demand with price
B) he can equate his marginal and total utilities
C) he equates marginal utility and price
D) his marginal utility is equal to zero
  • 15. Foreign investment and long term securities in the balance of payment accounts are recorded as
A) balance of trade account transaction
B) capital account transaction
C) invisible balance account transaction
D) current account transaction
  • 16. A benefit that is present in all forms of economic integration is that
A) common agricultural policy is in place
B) common currency is in use
C) the size of the market is widened
D) factors of production are free to move and be moved
  • 17. Points within a Production Possibilities Curve (PPC) indicate
A) optimum production levels.
B) unattainable production levels.
C) attainable and efficient production levels.
D) attainable but inefficient production levels.
  • 18. Which of the following is not a feature of labour?
A) it is highly mobile
B) it’s reward is wages and salaries
C) it is an active factor
D) it’s efficiency depends on its size
  • 19. The pursuit of private profits is a feature of
A) socialist economies
B) statutory corporations
C) command economies
D) capitalist economies
  • 20. A major feature of the socialist economic system is
A) freedom of choice for consumers.
B) private ownership of productive inputs.
C) setting of production targets by public authorities.
D) determination of price by market forces.
  • 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) 16.6°
B) 60°
C) 300°
D) 150°
  • 22. Price elasticity of demand is the responsiveness of quantity demanded to a change in
A) demand for the product
B) price of the product
C) income of the buyer
D) price of another product
  • 23. When total revenue increases as price falls, the coefficient of price elasticity of demand is
A) greater than one
B) zero
C) less than one
D) one
  • 24. If the quantity demanded of rice de- creased from 150 bags to 100 bags, the percentage change in quantity demanded is
A) 65%
B) 80%
C) 33.3%
D) 30%
  • 25. The law of demand will not hold when
A) rare commodities are involved
B) income and consumers increase
C) size of the population changes
D) normal goods are involved
  • 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 decrease in the price of milk
B) a change in taste in favour of milk
C) an increase in income of consumers
D) a favorable weather condition
  • 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) derived demand
B) competitive demand
C) complementary demand
D) composite 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) quantity supplied only
C) supply only
D) price and supply
  • 29. If the coefficient of price elasticity of supply of a commodity is 0.8, then supply is
A) fairly inelastic
B) perfectly inelastic
C) perfectly elastic
D) fairly elastic
  • 30. The negative slope of the demand curve is best explained by
A) diminishing marginal utility
B) diminishing returns to scale
C) consumer’s choice
D) increasing return to scale
  • 31. Minimum price legislation is used to protect the interests of
A) small scale producers
B) consumers
C) foreign companies
D) government
  • 32. Which of the following best explains diseconomies of scale? Increase in output causes the
A) firm to be de-stabilized
B) marginal revenue to fall
C) average cost to rise
D) marginal cost to fall
  • 33. In the short-run, a firm can increase output by
A) purchasing more equipments
B) increasing the size of its machines
C) increasing the quantity of raw materials
D) changing its organizational structure
  • 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) $8
B) $10
C) $15
D) $4
  • 35. Firms in perfect competition break even in the long-run because
A) more firms can enter the industry due to attractive prof its.
B) marginal revenue is greater than marginal cost at all levels.
C) new firms can not enter the market due to copyright laws.
D) profits are not enough to repay traders' loans.
  • 36. The government policy that encourages public corporations to operate profitably is
A) liberalization
B) nationalization
C) commercialization
D) indigenization
  • 37. Warehousing of goods in the process of distribution is the function of
A) departmental stores
B) supermarkets
C) retailers
D) wholesalers
  • 38. The supply of labour to an occupation will tend to rise when
A) unemployment benefit rises
B) holiday entitlement is cut
C) welfare packages improve
D) there are less monetary benefits
  • 39. In determining the growth of a country's population, infant mortality is a component of
A) net migration
B) immigration rate
C) fertility rate
D) death rate
  • 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 presence of many extension workers
C) the use of simple traditional implements
D) laziness on the part of farmers
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