This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Finance > Economics > Applied Economics > Applied Economics – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Applied Economics Quiz 22 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Thousands of people leave a small town due to a factory closing down. Sales at the local grocery store become slow. What causes this change? A) Prices or availability of substitutes. B) Change in weather or season. C) Change in the number of buyers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Change in the number of buyers. 2. Price ceiling on the other hand is the legally imposed ..... price on the market. A) Minimum. B) Maximum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maximum. 3. WHEN YOUR WANTS ARE GREATER THAN YOUR RESOURCES A) POVERTY. B) SCARCITY. C) TRADE-OFF. D) UN-EMPLOYMENT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) SCARCITY. 4. What is the fundamental economic problem arising from the limited availability of resources relative to unlimited human wants, which necessitates choices and trade-offs? A) Abundance. B) Excess. C) Surplus. D) Scarcity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scarcity. 5. It is necessary for a business to have such, the more you have it, the more opportunity it is for your business to run smoothly. A) Rival. B) Relationship. C) Cash flow. D) Strength. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relationship. 6. When is demand considered elastic in terms of price? A) When quantity demanded is highly responsive to price changes. B) When quantity demanded is not affected by price changes. C) During economic downturns. D) When there is a surplus in the market. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When quantity demanded is highly responsive to price changes. 7. There are five key stages in the lifecycle of any product or service EXCEPT ..... A) Development and introduction. B) Growth and maturiy. C) Decline. D) Lifecycle management. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lifecycle management. 8. If there is an increase in demand, the line will shift to the A) Right. B) Left. C) Up. D) Bottom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right. 9. The people of a country are very important as a resource used in the production of goods and services. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 10. Mrs. Deeh Mangutang borrowed from an organization an amount that is twice of her share. She is a member of a ..... A) Cooperative. B) Partnership. C) Sole proprietorship. D) Corporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cooperative. 11. These are your needs to increase your market share A) Weaknesses. B) Opportunites. C) Strengths. D) Threats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opportunites. 12. The main disadvantage of a ..... is that each person is fully responsible for the acts of all other persons. A) Partnership. B) Proprietorship. C) Franchise. D) Corporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Partnership. 13. Refer to the internal factors of a business A) Strength and Weaknesses. B) Opportunities and Threats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strength and Weaknesses. 14. When the economy produces more smart phones and fewer television sets, it answers the question ..... A) For whom to produce?. B) How to produce. C) What to produce. D) What provisions or laws to be made?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For whom to produce?. 15. It is the willingness of a consumer to buy a commodity at a given price. A) Demand. B) Supply. C) Equilibrium. D) Elasticity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Demand. 16. Perfume, cakes, chocolates, expensive cars are examples of what goods? A) Consumer goods. B) Capital goods. C) Economic goods. D) Luxury goods. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Luxury goods. 17. Withholding taxes on compensation. A) Value Added Tax. B) Salary and Wage Taxes. C) Amusement Taxes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salary and Wage Taxes. 18. In this market structure, where one single firm dominates a market for a particular product A) Monopoly. B) Oligopoly. C) Monopolistic Competition. D) Pure Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monopoly. 19. If an increase in the price of good X results in a decrease in the demand for good Y, the goods are ..... A) Substitute. B) Inferior goods. C) Complement. D) Market Demand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complement. 20. What is the central economic problem? A) Covid-19. B) Scarcity. C) Poverty. D) Corruption. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scarcity. 21. Who makes or grows goods or offers services? A) Consumer. B) Producers. C) Demanders. D) Resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producers. 22. Those industries which do not produce physical goods but create utility services and sell them for a price. A) Primary Industry. B) Manufacturing Industry. C) Service Industry. D) Secondary Industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Service Industry. 23. A situation where there are not enough resources to satisfy our wants. A) Opportunity cost. B) Surplus. C) Scarcity. D) Trade-off. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scarcity. 24. It is the insufficiency of resources to meet the wants of consumers and insufficiency of resources for production that hamper enough production of goods and services. A) Economy. B) Social Science. C) Applied Science. D) Scarcity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scarcity. 25. What do you call to the workers who work 40 hours or more? A) Full-Time Workers. B) Population. C) Labor Supply. D) Part-time Workers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Part-time Workers. 26. An increase in GDP signifies growth or ....., while a decline signifies ..... A) Extend-shrink. B) Expansion-contraction. C) Development-decrease. D) Evolution-downfall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expansion-contraction. 27. Which decision-making tool includes using a chart to list factors associated with the decision and the possible options so that each factor can be compared for each decision? A) Decision tree. B) Pareto analysis. C) Multivoting. D) Decision matrix. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decision matrix. 28. It is one of the economic problems in the Philippines that require applied economics in order to propose solutions. A) Corruption. B) Malnutrition. C) Population growth. D) Fraud. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population growth. 29. Disadvantages for this type of business include:owner pays for everything, hard to get money to start from the bank, owner might lack skills & unlimited liability. A) Sole Proprietorship. B) Corporation. C) Franchise. D) Partnership. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sole Proprietorship. 30. This will be the cheapest source since there is no middle men involved. A) Manufacturers. B) Imports. C) Distributor. D) Customer. 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