JAMB Economics Past Questions & Answers - Page 376

1,876.

Labour productivity is defined as

A.

Output per man/hour

B.

Average output

C.

The maximum number of hours worked

D.

Total level of output

Correct answer is A

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

1,877.

The additional revenue obtained by using one more unit of a factor is called its

A.

Marginal product

B.

Additional product

C.

Marginal revenue product

D.

Average product

Correct answer is C

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

1,878.

Market is defined as

A.

One geographical location where people meet to buy and sell

B.

The demand and supply of goods and services

C.

A group of people whose sole interest is to make profit

D.

Any organizational framework which links the buyers and sellers of a good and service

Correct answer is D

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

1,879.

Which of the following best describes the concept of opportunity cost?

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

Correct answer is C

No explanation has been provided for this answer.

1,880.

The study of economic behavior of individual decision-making units (consumers, resources owners and business firms) in a free-enterprise economy is known as

A.

Microeconomics

B.

Macroeconomics

C.

Production

D.

Indifference curve

Correct answer is A

No explanation has been provided for this answer.