Waec Economics Past Questions For Year 2008

Question 1

Data presented in tables are usually arranged in

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  • A. charts and graphs
  • B. rows and columns
  • C. graph and rows
  • D. columns and charts
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Question 2

Production covers all the following except when

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  • A. utility is created
  • B. a good is manufactured
  • C. a commodity is consumed
  • D. individual wants are satisfied
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Question 3

Productive resources can also be called

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  • A. principle of production
  • B. factors of production
  • C. items of production
  • D. labour and material resources
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Question 4

The main concern of economists is to

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  • A. allocate scarce resouces to satisfy human wants
  • B. satisfy all human wants
  • C. redistribute income between the rich and the poor
  • D. control the growth of population
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Question 5

A major function of the price mechanism is that it determines the

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  • A. allocation of resources
  • B. amount of national savings
  • C. population of the country
  • D. number of goods to be taxed
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