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Question 71. Under full cost pricing, price is determined
  1.    by the total cost of production
  2.    by adding a margin to the average cost
  3.    by comparing marginal cost and marginal revenue
  4.    by adding normal profit to the marginal cost
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> by adding a margin to the average cost
Answer: (b)
Full cost pricing is a practice where the price of a product is calculated by a firm on the basis of its direct costs per unit of output plus a markup to cover overhead costs and profits.
Having worked out what average total cost would be if the level of output expected for the next period of time were actually achieved, firms add to this a 'satisfactory' profit margin.
This is known as 'full cost' pricing. The price is equal to 'full' cost, including an acceptable profit.
Question 72. Goods which are meant either for consumption or for investment are called
  1.    Intermediate goods
  2.    Final goods
  3.    Giffen goods
  4.    Inferior goods
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Final goods
Answer: (b)
All goods which are meant either
for consumption by consumers or
for investment by firms are called final goods.
They are finished goods, meant for final use. These are neither resold nor do they enter into further stages of production. For example, Cars, television sets, cloth, food, machinery, equipment etc. are final goods.
Question 73. The equilibrium of a firm under perfect competition will be determined when
  1.    Marginal Cost > Average Cost
  2.    Marginal Revenue > Average Cost
  3.    Marginal Revenue > Average Revenue
  4.    Marginal Revenue = Marginal Cost
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Marginal Revenue = Marginal Cost
Answer: (d)
When the marginal revenue productivity of a factor is equal to the marginal- cost (MR=MC) of the factor, the firm will be in equilibrium and its profits maximized.
Equilibrium in perfect competition is the point where market demands will be equal to market supply.
The condition that price equals both average revenue and marginal revenue (P = AR = MR) is the standard condition for a perfectly competitive firm.
Question 74. The addition to total cost by producing an additional unit of output by a firm is called
  1.    Opportunity cost
  2.    Variable cost
  3.    Average cost
  4.    Marginal cost
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Marginal cost
Answer: (d)The addition to total cost by producing an additional unit of output by a firm is called Marginal cost. Average cost is the total cost of producing a given output divided by that output.
Question 75. Equilibrium price is the price when :
  1.    supply is equal to demand
  2.    supply is greater than demand
  3.    supply is less than demand
  4.    demand is very high
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> supply is equal to demand
Answer: (a)
The equilibrium price is the price where the goods and services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer(s).
How the equilibrium price is achieved is through the 'Invisible Hand', or market forces of the economy.
Question 76. Who propounded Dynamic Theory of profit ?
  1.    Hawly
  2.    Clark
  3.    Schumpeter
  4.    Knight
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Clark
Answer: (b)Dynamic Theory of Profit is associated with the name of an American Economist J. B. Clark. In the world of reality, according to J. B. Clark profit arises only in a dynamic economy.
Question 77. The difference between the price the consumer is prepared to pay for a commodity and the price which he actually pays is called
  1.    Worker’s Surplus
  2.    Consumer’s Surplus
  3.    Producer’s Surplus
  4.    Landlord’s Surplus
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Consumer’s Surplus
Answer: (b)
Consumer surplus is the difference between the maximum price a consumer is willing to pay and the actual price they do pay.
If a consumer would be willing to pay more than the current asking price, then they are getting more benefit from the purchased product than they spent to buy it.
Question 78. The father of Economics is
  1.    Karl Marx
  2.    Marshall
  3.    Adam Smith
  4.    J.M. Keynes
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Adam Smith
Answer: (c)Adam Smith is known as ‘Father of Modern Economics.’ He is best known for two classic works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776).
Question 79. A horizontal demand curve is
  1.    of unitary elasticity
  2.    ralatively elastic
  3.    perfectly inelastic
  4.    perfectly elastic
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> perfectly elastic
Answer: (d)
The demand curve facing a perfectly competitive firm is flat or horizontal. This is because all firms in perfect competition are by definition selling an identical (homogeneous) product.
A horizontal demand curve is a flat curve with a slope of zero. It is a perfectly elastic demand curve. Because the slope of the curve is zero, it is impossible for the price to change in the market.
Question 80. The income elasticity of demand being greater than one, the commodity must be
  1.    None of these
  2.    a necessity
  3.    a luxury
  4.    an inferior good
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> a luxury
Answer: (c)
In economics, income elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of the demand for a good to a change in the income of the people demanding the good, ceteris paribus.
It is calculated as the ratio of the percentage change in demand to the percentage change in income.
For example, if, in response to a 10% increase in income, the demand for a good increased by 20%, the income elasticity of demand would be ${20%}/{10%} = 2$.
Positive income elasticity of demand is associated with normal goods; an increase in income will lead to a rise in demand.
If the income elasticity of demand of a commodity is less than 1, it is a necessity good. If the elasticity of demand is greater than 1, it is a luxury good or a superior good.

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