Year : 
1999
Title : 
Economics
Exam : 
WASSCE/WAEC MAY/JUNE

Paper 1 | Objectives

41 - 50 of 50 Questions

# Question Ans
41.

Which of the following combination of qualities ensures a good tax system?

A. Deflationary equity, certainty and convinience

B. Economy convinience, certainty and equity

C. Economy, deflationary, inflationary and certainty

D. Economy, convinience, certainty and inflationary

B

42.

The quantity demanded of a commodity is influenced only by changes

A. tastes

B. weather

C. price of the commodity

D. Price of other commodities

C

43.

Which of the following is an indirect tax

A. income tax

B. company tax

C. profit tax

D. sales tax

D

44.

When a pen and a book is demanded together, the demand is said to be

A. composite

B. competitive

C. joint

D. derived

C

45.

The reward for capital is

A. interest

B. rent

C. risk premium

D. premium

A

46.

Infant industries are industries that

A. deals in the production of infant books

B. are in their earlier stage of production

C. produce dresses for infants

D. are well established

B

47.

The most common form of business enterprise in West Africa is the

A. Sole proprietorship

B. Co-operative

C. Partnership

D. joint stock company

A

48.

In order to boost agriculture, West African countries should pay more attention to

A. shifting cultivation

B. animal husbandry

C. seed multiplication

D. mechanization

D

49.

Gross National Product (GNP) less depreciation is known as

A. Gross Domestic Products

B. Gross National Income

C. Fixed National Income

D. Net National Income

D

50.

West African economy can best be described as

A. agricultural

B. backward

C. developed

D. industrialized

A

41.

Which of the following combination of qualities ensures a good tax system?

A. Deflationary equity, certainty and convinience

B. Economy convinience, certainty and equity

C. Economy, deflationary, inflationary and certainty

D. Economy, convinience, certainty and inflationary

B

42.

The quantity demanded of a commodity is influenced only by changes

A. tastes

B. weather

C. price of the commodity

D. Price of other commodities

C

43.

Which of the following is an indirect tax

A. income tax

B. company tax

C. profit tax

D. sales tax

D

44.

When a pen and a book is demanded together, the demand is said to be

A. composite

B. competitive

C. joint

D. derived

C

45.

The reward for capital is

A. interest

B. rent

C. risk premium

D. premium

A

46.

Infant industries are industries that

A. deals in the production of infant books

B. are in their earlier stage of production

C. produce dresses for infants

D. are well established

B

47.

The most common form of business enterprise in West Africa is the

A. Sole proprietorship

B. Co-operative

C. Partnership

D. joint stock company

A

48.

In order to boost agriculture, West African countries should pay more attention to

A. shifting cultivation

B. animal husbandry

C. seed multiplication

D. mechanization

D

49.

Gross National Product (GNP) less depreciation is known as

A. Gross Domestic Products

B. Gross National Income

C. Fixed National Income

D. Net National Income

D

50.

West African economy can best be described as

A. agricultural

B. backward

C. developed

D. industrialized

A