Economics Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Economics is the study of how societies allocate limited resources to meet the unlimited needs and wants of individuals. It focuses on the production of goods and services, economic growth, and various complex issues that are important to society.

• Question 1421: A monopolist has the power to influence the prices of goods and services. Therefore, he is a Options:
  A) price maker
  B) price taker
  C) price system
  D) price competition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1422: Taxes which are levied on a person’s expenditures are known as? Options:
  A) Purchase tax
  B) Sales tax
  C) Direct tax
  D) Poll tax
  E) Income tax
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1423:

  A market situation with few sellers and many buyers is called

  Options:
  A) monopoly
  B) duopoly
  C) oligopoly
  D) perfect competition
  E) monopsony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1424: The best measure of dispersion to determine the tallest tree in a forest is Options:
  A) range
  B) variance
  C) standard deviation
  D) mean deviation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1425: When a foreigner on a visit to Nigeria pays for hotel accommodation and meals with some foreign currency,the amount paid should be recorded in Nigeria's balance of payment as an item of? Options:
  A) Nigeria's invisible export trade
  B) Nigeria's import trade
  C) Nigeria's invisble trade
  D) foreign capital inflow into Nigeria
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1426: If goods were free, a rational consumer would consume? Options:
  A) an infinite amount of each good
  B) the amount where marginal utility became zero
  C) the same amount as when each good had a price
  D) the amount where marginal utility was the highest
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1427: One of the assumptions of ordinal utility in consumer behaviour is that Options:
  A) consumers are irrational
  B) marginal utility rises continuously
  C) utility is measurable
  D) utility can only be ranked
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1428: In the history of Economic Thought the concept of Division of labour is usually associated with? Options:
  A) David Richardo
  B) J.M. Keynes
  C) Adam Smith
  D) Karl Marx
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1429: A firm will experience diseconomies of scale when Options:
  A) there are difficulties in coordinating production
  B) there is shortage in labour supply
  C) the size of market is small
  D) there is an increase in the price of raw materials
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1430: If the consumer demand for product X increases, as the demand for product, Y increases then the goods X and Y are Options:
  A) complimentary goods
  B) composite goods
  C) derived good
  D) independent goods
  E) substitute good
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  The correct answer is A .