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This set of Micro Economics 1 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Micro Economics 1 Set 15

Q1 | If the long run average cost curve for a typical firm in an industry is downward sloping to the right it becomes difficult to sustain the assumption of
  • Diminishing returns
  • Perfect competition
  • Ceteris paribus
  • Rising marginal costs in the short run
Q2 | Marginal costs and average variable costs are equal when
  • Average variable cost is a maximum
  • Average variable cost is rising
  • Average variable cost is falling
  • Average variable cost is a minimum
Q3 | Theory of demand examines the behaviour of the--------
  • Consumer
  • Producer
  • Firm
  • Industry
Q4 | The want satisfying power of a commodity:
  • Satisfaction
  • Utility
  • Value
  • Marginal Utility
Q5 | Utility is the concept which is:
  • Objective
  • Subjective
  • Both
  • None
Q6 | Change in utility resulting from one unit change in consumption is called:
  • Total Utility
  • Extra Utility
  • Marginal Utility
  • Average Utility
Q7 | When Total Utility is maximum, Marginal Utility is :
  • Zero
  • Negative
  • Positive
  • One
Q8 | When Marginal Utility is negative, Total Utility:
  • Declines
  • Increases
  • Remains the same
  • None of these
Q9 | Saturation point is the point where:
  • TU = 0
  • MU = 0
  • MU is +ve
  • TU = 1
Q10 | Measurable utility is the postulate of:
  • Neo-Classical school
  • Ordinalist school
  • Behaviourist school
  • Keneysians
Q11 | Which of the following is Gossen’s first law:
  • Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
  • Law of Equi Marginal Utility
  • Law of substitution
  • Law of Diminishing Returns
Q12 | In the case of a free good, the consumer will be in equilibrium when:
  • MU = P
  • MU = 0
  • TU = 0
  • TU =1
Q13 | Change in demand due to a change in the price of related good :
  • Cross demand
  • Price demand
  • Income demand
  • None of these
Q14 | The Price and quantity relationship for an inferior good is:
  • Direct
  • Inverse
  • Positive
  • Indirect
Q15 | In the case of normal goods, the quantity demanded varies inversely with:
  • Price of good
  • Income of the consumer
  • Fashion of the good
  • Savings
Q16 | Which of the following is a cardinalist approach to demand analysis:
  • Marshallian utility analysis
  • Indifference Curve Analysis
  • Revealed Preference Theory
  • None of these
Q17 | The convexity of an indifference curve shows:
  • Diminishing MRS
  • Increasing MRS
  • Constant MRS
  • None
Q18 | A movement from one point to another along an indifference curve makes the satisfaction:
  • Increasing
  • Decreasing
  • Unaltered
  • None
Q19 | In the case of an indifference curve
  • dU/dX>dU/dY
  • dU/dX = dU/dY
  • dU/dX
  • dU/dX≤dU/Dy
Q20 | An Indifference Curve to the right of another represents combinations which are:
  • Indifferent
  • Preferable
  • Inferior
  • Superior
Q21 | As moving from left to right through an indifference curve, the MRS of X for Y
  • Increases
  • Remains the same
  • Decreases
  • Both A and C
Q22 | The slope of an indifference curve represents:
  • Price ratio of good X and Y
  • MRTS L,K
  • MRSx,y
  • MRS
Q23 | In the case of perfect complementaries, the MRS between goods is:
  • Zero
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • None
Q24 | In a combination of X and Y, if price of Y alone changes, the X intercept will :
  • Rotate upwards
  • Rotate downwards
  • Not be changed
  • Parallel
Q25 | At the point of tangency of an indifference curve with a budget line:
  • MRSxy =Px/Py
  • MRSxy>Px/PY
  • MRSxy
  • MRSxy≥Px/PY