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This set of Managerial Economics 1 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Managerial Economics 1 Set 3

Q1 | Generally demand curve have …………
  • negative slope
  • positive slope
  • horizontal line
  • vertical line
Q2 | The change in demand due to change in price only, where other factors remainingconstant, it is called……….
  • shift in demand
  • extension of demand
  • contraction of demand
  • both extension and contraction
Q3 | When the quantity demanded of a commodity rises due to a fall in price, it is called
  • extension
  • upward shift
  • downward shift
  • contraction
Q4 | When the quantity demanded falls due to a rise in price, it is called
  • extension
  • upward shift
  • downward shift
  • contraction
Q5 | The Giffen goods are ………. Goods
  • inferior goods
  • superior goods
  • related goods
  • same goods
Q6 | Higher the price of certain luxurious articles, higher will be the demand, this concept iscalled
  • giffen effects
  • veblen effects
  • demonstration effects
  • both b & c above
Q7 | Demand for milk, sugar, tea for making tea, is an example of
  • composite demand
  • derivative demand
  • joint demand
  • direct demand
Q8 | Perfect elasticity is known as
  • finite elastic
  • infinite elastic
  • unitary elastic
  • zero elastic
Q9 | In the case of perfect elasticity, the demand curve is
  • vertical
  • horizontal
  • flat
  • steep
Q10 | In a perfectly competitive market, individual firm
  • cannot influence the price of its product
  • can influence the price of its product
  • can fix the price of its product
  • can influence the market force
Q11 | Perfect competition is characterized by
  • large number of buyers and sellers
  • homogeneous product
  • free entry and exit of firms
  • all the above
Q12 | The market with a single producer
  • perfect competition
  • monopolistic competition
  • oligopoly
  • monopoly
Q13 | Selling cost is the feature of the market form
  • monopoly
  • monopolistic competition
  • oligopoly
  • none of these
Q14 | The product under monopolistic competition are
  • differentiated with close substitute
  • perfect substitute
  • differentiated without close substitute
  • homogeneous
Q15 | In business cycle concept, the period of “long wave” is of;
  • 25 years
  • 50 years
  • 100 years
  • 200 years
Q16 | In economics …….. means ‘a state of rest ‘or ‘stability’
  • depression
  • equilibrium
  • maturity
  • growth
Q17 | Selling at a lower price in export market and at a higher price at home market is called
  • export subsidy
  • dumping
  • price cut
  • all the above
Q18 | A fall in the price of a commodity leads to
  • a shift in demand
  • a fall in demand
  • a rise in the consumer’s real income
  • a fall in the consumer’s real income
Q19 | An exceptional demand curve is one that slopes
  • upward to the left
  • downward to the right
  • horizontally
  • upward to the right
Q20 | Which one is not an exception to the Law of Demand?
  • normal good
  • articles of distinction
  • ignorance
  • inferior good
Q21 | Demand for a commodity is elastic when it has:
  • only one use
  • uses which cannot be postponed
  • many uses
  • uses very essential for the consumer
Q22 | When the demand curve is a rectangular hyperbola, it represents:
  • perfectly elastic demand
  • unitary elastic demand
  • perfectly inelastic demand
  • relatively elastic demand
Q23 | The horizontal demand curve for a commodity shows that its demand is:
  • perfectly elastic
  • highly elastic
  • perfectly inelastic
  • moderately elastic
Q24 | When an individual’s income falls (while everything else remains the same), his demandfor an inferior good:
  • increases
  • decrease
  • remains unchanged
  • we cannot say without additional information
Q25 | A fall in the price of a commodity whose demand curve is a rectangular hyperbola causestotal expenditure on the commodity to:
  • increases
  • decrease
  • remains unchanged
  • any of the above