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FREE ECONOMICS AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SEMESTER
EXAM- ECON EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: Law of demand
Answer:
As the price of a product increases, quantity demanded falls. As the price of a product decreases, quantity demanded increases.
Question 2: Example of a good with an inelastic supply
Answer:
Fruit or food.
Question 3: Effect of technology on the economy
Answer:
Stronger and more efficient.
Question 4: Opportunity cost
Answer:
The most desirable alternative given up as the result of a decision.
Question 5: Why were command economic systems used for many years by Communist
governments?
Answer:
Create a society in which everyone is equal.
Question 6: Differentiation
Answer:
Making a product different from other similar products.
Question 7: Examples of a durable good
Answer:
A used car.
Question 8: Savings bonds
Answer:
A low-denomination bond issued by the United States Government.
Question 9: Functions of a natural monopoly
Answer:
Single firms supply all the output.
Question 10: Speculation
Answer:
The practice of making high-risk investments with borrowed money in hopes of getting big return.
Question 11: Examples of a barter system
Answer:
Pay for their money back by doing work around the house.
Question 12: Primary market
Answer:
A market for selling financial assets that can be redeemed only by the original holder.
Question 13: Diversification (in the financial market)
Answer:
The strategy of spreading out investments to reduce risk.
Question 14: What are conditions for perfect competition?
Answer:
Wide variety of products in a condition.
Question 15: Bull market
Answer:
A steady rise in the stock market over a period of time.
Question 16: Services
Answer:
Labor that requires specialized skills and education.
Question 17: Natural monopoly
Answer:
A market that runs most efficiently when a large firm supplies all of the output.
Question 18: Trade-off
Answer:
The alternative we sacrifice when we make a decision.
Question 19: Know what type of natural monopoly the U.S. government permits?
Answer:
Many companies selling similar but no identical products.
Question 20: Efficiency
Answer:
Serve each individual or entity.
Question 21: GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Answer:
The market value of all the final goods and services produced within a country at a given time period.
Question 22: What percentage of businesses are sole proprietorship?
Answer:
75%
Question 23: Goods
Answer:
Satisfy human wants.
Question 24: Market system
Answer:
An economic system in which property resources are privately owned and markets and prices are used to direct and coordinate economic activities.
Question 25: Money market
Answer:
Network of corporations, financial institutions, investors and government that deal with the flow of short-term capital.
Question 26: Know an example of a shortage
Answer:
Limited amounts of food, because the truck are carrying it are on strike.
Question 27: Economics of scale
Answer:
Factors that cause a producer's average cost per unit to fall as output rises.
Question 28: Investment
Answer:
The use of of assets to earn income or profit.