Economics Past Questions And Answers
Division of labour leads to
- A. employment of everybody
- B. decrease in output
- C. monotony of work
- D. increase of time in workshops
When a worker earns more than the wage just sufficient to keep him in his job, the excess income is called?
- A. an opportunity cost
- B. an economic rent
- C. transfer earnings
- D. surplus value
(a) Define inflation.
(b) Identify any three causes of: (i) demand-pull inflation; (ii) cost-push inflation .
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2017 THEORYPrice elasticity of supply is a ratio of the change in
- A. original quantity to a change in new quantity
- B. quantity supplied to the change in price
- C. price to the change in quantity supplied
- D. quantity supplied to the change in demand
The major problem of cooperative societies in Nigeria is that?
- A. they often lack cohersion and continuity
- B. their liability is unlimited to members
- C. voting is by proxy
- D. their management style is poor
In the history of economics the concept of division of labour is usually associated With______________
- A. Karl Marx
- B. Adam Smith
- C. David Ricardo
- D. J.M Keynes
In the diagram, the profit maximizing output is

- A. Q1 while 1 = AC and II = MC
- B. Q1, while l = MC and ll = AC
- C. Q2, while l = MC and ll = AC
- D. Q3, while l = AC and ll = MC
One of the causes of the present high rate of inflation in Nigeria is
- A. increasing budget surplus
- B. increasing factor costs
- C. exchange rate appreciation
- D. high capacity utilization
An account from which allocations are made to the three tier of government in Nigeria is called the?
- A. National Income Account
- B. Public Sector
- C. Federation account
- D. National Revenue Mobilization Account
Zakari started a business in January 2000. He bought a shop costing N54,000 and stock worth N7,600. Profit for the year amounted to 22,100. His closing capital was N73,800. Zakari's personal drawings amounted to?
- A. N2,300
- B. N9,900
- C. N17,100
- D. N19,500

