Jamb Economics Past Questions For Year 2020

Question 6

What form of market is found in an imperfect competition where there are few buyers and many sellers

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  • A. monopoly
  • B. oligopoly
  • C. duopoly
  • D. oligopsony
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Question 7

Which of the following is used by the central bank to control the rate of interest

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  • A. bill of exchange
  • B. banker's order
  • C. fixed deposit account
  • D. open market operation
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Question 8

The law of diminishing marginal utility indicates that if a consumer increases his consumption of a commodity continously

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  • A. total utility must fall
  • B. marginal utility must fall
  • C. marginal utility may rise
  • D. marginal utility may fall even though his total utility may be rising
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Question 9

In economic life, the choice among alternatives depends on the?

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  • A. income of the decision maker
  • B. scarcity of resources
  • C. the scale of preference of the decision-maker
  • D. status of the decison maker
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Question 10

Efficiency in production means?

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  • A. reducing the size of the work force
  • B. producing a given output with the lowest cost of combination of factors of production
  • C. adoption of capital intensive technology
  • D. increasing the quantity of the fixed factors of production
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