Which of the following equation is correct?
A. Net national product = total national product - Depreciation + indirect tax
B. Net national product = total national product - Depreciation - indirect tax
C. Net national product = total national product - Depreciation
D. Net national product = total national product - indirect tax
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Which of the following goods or services will not be provided by a free trade economy?
A. Public transport system
B. Pension
C. National security
D. Education
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A low rate of interest
A. brings down wages
B. increases wages
C. itself insufficient to raise investment
D. is always due to central bank's order to the entire money market
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According to the law of diminishing marginal utility,
A. utility is at a maximum with the first unit
B. increasing units of consumption increase the marginal utility
C. marginal product will fall as more units are consumed
D. total utility will rise at a falling rate as more units are consumed
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Assume that a farmer sells his product to an agricultural marketing board. He is not allowed to sell to any other institution or to any other persons. In effect, the board is, from his view, a
A. monopoly
B. oligopoly
C. monopsony
D. duopoly
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What is an opportunity cost? Choose the most appropriate option.
A. The cost of availing an opportunity
B. The cost of advantage forgone
C. The situational cost
D. Cost of speculative activities
E. The minimum cost to carry out a project
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Consider the following.
1. Output × Price = Total Revenue
2. MR cannot be zero
3. TR = MR × Q
Select the correct answer
A. Only 1
B. Both 1 and 2
C. Only 3
D. All of the above
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The reason for India's unfavourable balance of payments is
A. Increase in the price of petrol
B. Payments of interest on foreign debts
C. Liberalization of imports
D. All of the above
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Statement I The objective of finance function is wealth maximisation.
Statement II The objective of finance function is profit maximisation.
A. Both statements are correct
B. Both statements are incorrect
C. Statement I is correct, Statement II is incorrect
D. Statement I is incorrect, Statement II is correct
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Which of the following marketing strategies is/are not used in 'growth stage' of the product life cycle?
A. Improving quality and adding new features
B. Adding new models of product
C. Entering new market segments
D. Using awareness and trial communications
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Price discrimination will not be a good approach for
A. railway company
B. electric supply company
C. FMCG company
D. mobile company
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On a less than perfectly elastic demand curve, the MR for a given price and output is equal to price multiplied by
A. [ 1 − e ]
B. [ e − e 1 ]
C. [ 1 − e 1 ]
D. [ e 1 − 1 ]
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Which one of the following is based on the market law of 'Say's'?
A. Nurkse's theory of balanced development
B. Vicious circle of poverty
C. Keynes's low employment theory
D. Harshman's theory of unbalanced development
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Which one of the following theories is not correct in the context of Central Limit Theorem?
A. If a population from which a sample is drawn is normally distributed the sampling distribution of mean (SDM) will be normal for all sample sizes
B. The mean of the SDM is the population mean
C. If the population is not normal from which the sample is drawn, the SDM is not normal for any sample size
D. If the population is not normal from which a sample is drawn, the SDM approaches normality as the sample size increases
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The field of business economic does not include
A. Demand Forecasting
B. Pricing decision
C. Investment management decision
D. Dividend decision
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Assertion (A): In 1991 Government decided to allow all foreign investments to any industry without any restrictions.
Reason (R): Government has enhanced the investment limit of small scale industrial units.
A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C. (A) is true but (R) is false
D. (A) is false but (R) is true
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Match the following.
List-I
List-II
a. Law of increasing returns
1. TP starts declining
b. Law of diminishing returns
2. TP is increasing at the decreasing rate
c. Law of negative returns
3. MP is increasing
A. a-3, b-2, c-1
B. a-1, b-2, c-3
C. a-2, b-3, c-1
D. a-1, b-3, c-2
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Price, Marginal Revenue and Elasticity are related to each other. When e = 1, then:
A. MR > 0
B. MR < 0
C. MR = 0
D. MR = 1
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The relationship of the iso-product curve line depends on
A. Rate of substitution
B. Cost rate
C. Rate of production
D. None of these
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The revealed preference approach can be described by
A. strong ordering and lexicographic preference pattern
B. rationality, consistency and transitivity
C. rationality and weak ordering
D. transitivity and weak ordering
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