Economics Past Questions And Answers
Effective supply is the total amount of a commodity
- A. from a single producer
- B. in the warehouse of producers
- C. offered for sale at a market place
- D. produced for the market
A demand curve slopes downwards from left to right, but this may not always be so. Explain the statement.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1998 THEORYIf successive unit of labour are added to a piece of land while capital and technology remains constant, a point will be reached in the level of production when each additional unit of labour will add less to the output than previous units. This concept is known as
- A. productivity of labour
- B. law of diminishing marginal utility
- C. law of diminishing returns
- D. law of diminishing returns of a variable factor
If the price ofcommodity X increases because of the increase in the price vis-à-vis the increase in demand for other commodity Y, the two commodities are likely to be
- A) Complimentary
- B) Substitute
- C) Composite
- D) Intermediate
The coefficient of the price elasticity of supply is always
- A. positive
- B. negative
- C. constant
- D. zero
Palm oil industry in located in Bendel State because the state
- A. imports raw materials for the industry
- B. has a poor soil which is unsuitable for other crops
- C. is a palm-tree growing area
- D. government does not engage in the growing of other crops
The elasticity of supply of perishable goods is?
- A. unitary
- B. inelastic
- C. zero
- D. elastic
information about new goods is passed on to buyers through
- A. advertising
- B. retail trade
- C. the manufacturer
- D. wholesale trade
In national income accounting, NNP is derived by subtracting from the GNP?
- A. transfer payments
- B. indirect taxes
- C. allowance for wastage
- D. capital consumption
The lands that belong to the community is referred to as__________
- A. sacred land
- B. individual land
- C. communal land
- D. rent land

