Business Economics – MT 2

National management college-Perundurai

                                       CA-Foundation –  Business Economics

       Max.Time:  60 minutes           Total Marks : 50

                                                     Answer all the questions

  1. Which of the following is the best definition of “production function”?

(a) The relationship between market price and quantity supplied.

(b) The relationship between the firm’s total revenue and the cost of production.

(c) The relationship between the quantities of inputs needed to produce a given level of output.

(d) The relationship between the quantity of inputs and the firm’s marginal cost of production.

  1. Which of the following is a function of an entrepreneur?

(a) Initiating a business enterprise.   (b) Risk bearing.  (c) Innovating.                                                     (d) All of the above

  1. Which of the following statements describes increasing returns to scale?

(a) Doubling of all inputs used leads to doubling of the output.

(b) Increasing the inputs by 50% leads to a 25% increase in output.

(c) Increasing inputs by 1/4 leads to an increase in output of 1/3.

(d) None of the above.

  1. In the third of the three stages of production:

(a) the marginal product curve has a positive slope.

(b) the marginal product curve lies completely below the average product curve.     (c) total product increases.     (d) marginal product is positive

  1. Average product is defined as

(a) total product divided by the total cost.

(b) total product divided by marginal product.

(c) total product divided by the number of units of variable input.

(d) marginal product divided by the number of units of variable input.

  1. A fixed input is defined as

(a) That input whose quantity can be quickly changed in the short run, in response to the desire of the company to change its production.

(b) That input whose quantity cannot be quickly changed in the short run, in response to the desire of the company to change its production.

(c) That input whose quantities can be easily changed in response to the desire to increase or reduce the level of production.

(d) That input whose demand can be easily changed in response to the desire to increase or reduce the level of production

  1. Which of the following is a variable cost in the short run?

(a) rent of the factory. (b) wages paid to the factory labour.

(c) interest payments on borrowed financial capital.

(d) payment on the lease for factory equipment.

  1. The production process described below exhibits
No.of.workers Output
0 0
1 23
2 40
3 50

(a) constant marginal product of labour.     (b) diminishing marginal product of labour.     (c) increasing return to scale.   (d) increasing marginal product of labour

  1. An iso quant shows

(a) All the alternative combinations of two inputs that can be produced by using a given set of output fully and in the best possible way.

(b) All the alternative combinations of two products among which a producer is indifferent because they yield the same profit.

(c) All the alternative combinations of two inputs that yield the same total product.       (d) Both (b) and (c)

  1. Laws of production does not include ……

(a) returns to scale.                        (b) law of diminishing returns to a factor.

(c) law of variable proportions.    (d) least cost combination of factors.

  1. The average product of labour is maximized when marginal product of labour:

(a) equals the average product of labour.    (b) equals zero.                                (c) is maximized.                                              (d) none of the above

  1. Which of the following statements is true?

(a) The services of a doctor are considered production.         (b) Man can create matter.   (c) The services of a housewife are considered production. (d) When a man creates a table, he creates matter.

  1. Which of the following alternatives would be true if the event presented in the following diagram occurs?

(a) A fall in wage costs of the firm along with a fall in consumer incomes

(b) A shortage of raw materials and consequent increase in raw material price.       (c) An increase in subsidy by the government and a reduction in taxes      (d) Decrease in the market price of the commodity in question

  1. Isoquant is also called as _____

(a) production indifference curve    (b) is-product curve  (c) equal-product curve                       (d) all the above

  1. The slope is iso-product curve show-       (a) MRSxy      (b) MRTSxy                (c) elasticity of an iso-product curve       (d) none of the above
  2. Which one of the following is not a determinant of the firm’s cost function?

(a) Price of firm’s output    (b) Production function  (c) Price of labour

(d) Rent paid for use of building

  1. From the following find out AP and MP of 4th unit of Labour.
Labour 0 1 2 3 4 5
TP of Labour 0 15 35 50 40 48

(a) 15 ; 15      (b) 10 ; 15       (c) 10 ; -15     (d) 10 ; -10

  1. The production function of a firm is- Find the output the firm can produce with 5 units of L and 2 units of K.

(a) 100 (b) 200 (c) 300 (d) 150

  1. At equilibrium point, a particular isoquant _____ to isocost line

(a) tangent  (b) perpendicular  (c) parallel   (d) concave

  1. At a point near the right hand below the corner of isoquant curve, the MRTSxy of factor ‘X’ for factor ‘Y’ is –     (a) very high     (b) very low    (c) zero    (d) neither high nor low
  2. Supply is the-

(a) limited resources that are available with the selle

(b) cost of producing a good      (c) entire relationship between the quantity supplied and the price of good

(d) willingness to produce

  1. Which of the following isoquant indicates that the two factors ‘X’ and ‘Y’ are imperfect substitutes of each other?

Refer the following supply function to answer Q. Nos. 23 to 25  

Qs = -10 + 2p

  1. How much quantity is supplied at a price of Rs10?

(a) 10 units (b) 8 units (c) 12 unit (d) 6 units

  1. At which price, the supply would be zero?

(a) Rs. 1 (b) Rs. 3 (c) Rs.4 (d) Rs.5

  1. Calculate the price at which, the firm is willing to supply 100 units

(a) Rs. 55 (b) Rs.50 (c) Rs.45 (d) Rs.40

  1. Elasticity of supply is measured by dividing the percentage change in quantity supplied of a good by ——————————

(a) Percentage change in income      (b) Percentage change in quantity demanded of goods         (c) Percentage change in price     (d) Percentage change in taste and preference

  1. The Slope of Indifference Curve indicates

(a) Marginal Rate of Substitution of x for y      (b) Prices of x and y    (c) Slope of the budget line        (d) Change in prices

  1. Yesterday, seller A supplied 400 units of a good X at Rs.10 per unit. Today, seller A supplies the same quantity of units at Rs. 5 per unit. Based on this evidence, seller A has experienced a (an)

(a) Decrease in supply.       (b) Increase in supply.   (c) Increase in the quantity supplied. (d) Decrease in the quantity supplied.

  1. If a fisherman must sell all of his daily catch before it spoils for whatever price he is offered, once the fish are caught the fisherman’s price elasticity of supply for fresh fish is _________.

(a) zero. (b) infinite. (c) one. (d) unable to be determined from this information

  1. The consumer is in equilibrium when the following condition is satisfied:
  1. Which of the following cost curves in never ‘U’ shaped?

(a) Average cost curve   (b) Marginal cost curve    (c) Average variable cost curve     (d) Average fixed cost curve

  1. According to ordinal approach of consumer’s behaviour

(A) Consumer is able to indicate the exact amounts of utilities that he derives from commodity or any combinations of them.

(B) Utility being psychological feeling is not quantifiable.

(C) The consumer is capable of simply comparing the different levels of satisfaction.

(D) Both (B) and (C)

  1. Luxuries are goods that are

(A) Enjoyable and essential    (B) Enjoyable but not essential  (C) Essential but not enjoyable   (D) Neither enjoyable nor essential34. While drawing budget line of a consumer consuming Nachos chips and Pepsi, if the quantity of Nachos taken on Y-axis and quantity of Pepsi on X-axis. The slope of budget line will be-

[Where, Pp – Price of Pepsi, PN – Price of Nachos & M – Money income of consumer]

  1. Relationship between slope of supply curve and elasticity of supply can be defined as –

(A) Product of slope of supply curve and ratio of quantity supply to price

(B) Elasticity of supply is equal to the slope of supply curve.

(C) Product of reciprocal of supply curve and ratio of price to quantity supplied

(D) Elasticity of supply is equal to reciprocal of slope of supply curve

  1. Elasticity of demand and supply are ___________________ concepts.

(A) Relative    (B) Absolute    (C) Both (A) and (B)    (D) Neither (A) and (B)

  1. Condition of equilibrium using utility analysis of demand can be expressed as
  1. MU curve will be below X-axis when

(A) MU is zero  (B) TU is falling   (C) MU is negative   (D) Both (B) and (C)

  1. In the following diagram, consumer’s surplus is shown by-

(A) OPEQ       (B) ODEQ      (C) PDE      (D) None of these

  1. In the following diagram, when the price of the commodity decreases from P1 to P2, the gain in consumer’s surplus is equal to-

(A) AP1B (B) AP2C (C) P1P2CB     (D) BSC

  1. In the long run which factor of production is fixed?

(A) Labour     (B) Capital   (C) Building   (D) None of these

Iso-Quants shown in the above figure exhibits

  1. Perfect substitutability of factors     2. Perfect complementarily of factors         3. Fixed proportion production function   4. Variable proportion production function

(A) 1 & 2 only     (B) 1 & 3 only    (C) 3 & 4 only    (D) 2 & 3 only

  1. Which one of the following cost curve is rectangular hyperbola in shape?

(A) TFC    (B) MC     (C) AFC    (D) AVC

  1. Which one of the following is not an assumption of law of variable proportion?

(A) Technology of production remains unchanged.

(B) Only physical inputs & output are considered.

(C) All units of variable factors are different.

(D) The must be some inputs whose quantity is kept fixed

  1. After identifying the market, the enterprise has to make decision regarding 4 Ps. Which one of the following is not one of these 4 Ps.

(A) Promotion    (B) Place     (C) People    (D) Product

  1. Which of the following is not a problem of an enterprise?

(A) Problem relating to location & size.   (B) Problem of making huge profit.

(C) Problem relating to finance.  (D) Problem relating to organizational structure.

  1. Which one of the following is not a national objective of an enterprise?

(A) To provide fair deal to the employees at different levels.

(B) To remove inequality of opportunities & provide fair opportunity to all to work and to progress.

(C) To produce according to national priorities.

(D) To help the country become self reliant & avoid dependence on other nations

  1. Assertion (A):An iso-cost line is a straight line.

Reason (R): The market rate of exchange between the two inputs is constant.

(A) (A) is true and (R) is false

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true & (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(C) Both (A) and (R) are true & (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(D) (A) is false and (R) is true

  1. Law of diminishing marginal rate of substitution is associated with

(A) Marshall      (B) Hicks      (C) Slutsky      (D) Keynes

  1. A consumer’s preferences are monotonic if and only if between two bundles, the consumer prefers the bundle which has _______________________

(A) more of one of the goods    (B) less of at least one of the goods

(C) more of at least one of the goods and less of the other good.

(D) more of at least one of the goods and no less of the other good

 

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD