Economics Past Questions And Answers
A tariff is a tax imposed on
- A. Consumer goods
- B. Domestic goods
- C. Imported goods
- D. Exported goods
A society that is on its production possibility curve
- A. has attained full employment but not full production
- B. has attained full production but not full employment
- C. is using its resources inefficiently
- D. has attained both full employment and full production
the opportunity cost of a worker going to the university is
- A. tuition, fees and books
- B. boarding and lodging
- C. the wages given up to attend the university
- D. transportation and entertainment
The table below shows the workers engaged by an agricultural firm over a period of time. Study it and answer the questions that follow;
| Number of workers | Total product | Marginal product | Average product |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| 2 | 50 | 30 | z |
| 3 | 70 | 20 | 23.3 |
| 4 | 80 | y | 20 |
| 5 | 80 | 0 | 16 |
| 6 | x | -9.8 | 11.7 |
(a) Calculate the values of X, Y, and Z.
(b) At what level of employment of labour does the firm experience:
i. increasing returns
ii. decreasing returns
ii. negative returns
(c) State the law of diminishing returns
(d) i. On a graph sheet, draw the total product and marginal product curves.
ii. State any two relationships between the two curves in (d)(i) above
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2020 THEORYThe long - run average cost curve is made up of several short-run
- A. marginal and average cost curves
- B. average cost curves
- C. average variable cost curves
- D. average variable and total cost curves
The diagram below shows the shifts in both demand supply curves. What is the new equilibrium point after the shifts?

- A. E3
- B. E1
- C. E4
- D. E2
Which of the following is a legal tender in West Africa?
- A. Treasury Bill
- B. Share
- C. Credit card
- D. Currency
The distinction between capital and recurrect expenditure lies in the
- A. nature of the goods and services to be provided
- B. time frame of the expenditure
- C. source of the revenue generated
- D. amount of expenditure involved
The demand curve would shift to the left when there is a rise in
- A. Constant proportions
- B. Constant complement
- C. Income
- D. The supply of the commodity
If good P and Q are jointly demanded, an increase in the price of P will likely
- A. leave the demand for Q constant but reduce the quantity demanded of P
- B. reduce the quantity of P but increase the Price of Q
- C. Increase the quantity supplied of Q
- D. decrease the quantity demanded of Q

