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 571: The shape of the long-run average cost curve is best explained by the Options:
  A) law of diminishing returns
  B) law of returns to scale
  C) cost of fixed inputs
  D) cost of variable inputs
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 572: The main objective of the Economic Community of West African State is to? Options:
  A) estabilish a West African Development Bank
  B) create a West African army
  C) introduce a common currency for the sub-region
  D) promote the free movement of persons, goods and services within the sub-region
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 573: If a person demands money for buying and selling securities. It is referred as demanding money for Options:
  A) Transaction purposes
  B) Speculative purposes
  C) Precautionary purposes
  D) Meeting the educational expenses of the children
  E) Carrying out gambling activities
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 574:

  

  From that table above, the price elasticity of supply is

  Options:
  A) 4
  B) 25
  C) 1
  D) 2
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 575: Let P _x represent the price of exports and P_m the price of imports. Then the terms of trade (TOT) are said to be favourable if Options:
  A) $\frac{Px}{Pm}$
  B) $\frac{Px}{Pm}$=1
  C) $\frac{Px}{Pm}$>1
  D) $\frac{Px}{Pm}$+1
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 576:

  If two commodities are unrelated, a change in the price of one will____________

  Options:
  A) have effect on the quantity demanded of the other
  B) have no effect on the quantity demanded of the other
  C) increase the quantity demanded on the other
  D) decrease the quantity demanded on the other
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 577: Which of the following best describes the concept of opportunity cost? Options:
  A) a special bargain or scale at below market price
  B) Cost of input tends to go up as we use more of them
  C) Goods that are not produced in order to produce more of another good
  D) A cost that constantly decreases
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 578: when the demand curve shift to the right it indicate that a larger quantity is demanded at each price. This is caused by one of the following Options:
  A) a fall in income
  B) a rise in the price of a complement
  C) a fall in the price of substitute
  D) a change in taste against this commodity
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 579: The standard deviation of a set of data is Options:
  A) always measured from the mode
  B) the most representative of averages
  C) always measured from the median
  D) a measure of dispersion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 580: The output approach to measuring national income is based on the computation of Options:
  A) final output
  B) factor cost
  C) value added
  D) profits earned
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  The correct answer is C .