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