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A company faces a -2.5 price elasticity of demand for its product. It is presently selling 10,000 units/month. If it wants to increase quantity sold by 6%, it must lower its price by

A) 3.50% B) 15%
C) 2.50% D) 2.40%
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 2.40%

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In 2015, the nominal rate of interest in a country was 5.5% and the inflation rate then was 2.5%. So real rate of interest in 2015 was _________.

A) 8 percent B) 2.2 percent
C) 13.75 percent D) 3 percent
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 3 percent

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The main effect of Direct Taxes is on

A) Food prices B) Consumer goods
C) Capital goods D) Income
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Income

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CENVAT is related to which of the following ?

A) Sales Tax B) Excise Duty
C) Custom Duty D) Service Tax
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Excise Duty

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Pump priming should be resorted to at a time of?

A) Inflation B) Deflation
C) Stagflation D) Reflation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Deflation

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What will you call a system of taxation under which the poorer sections are taxed at higher rates than the richer sections?

A) Progressive tax B)  Proportional tax
C) Regressive tax D)  Degressive tax
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Regressive tax

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Trickle down theory ignores the impact of economic growth on

A) Investment B) Savings
C) Income distribution D) consumption
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Income distribution

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When some goods or productive factors are completely fixed in amount, regardless of price, the supply curve is

A) horizontal B) downward sloping to the right
C) vertical D) upward sloping to the right
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) upward sloping to the right

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Although demand curves are typically downward sloping to reflect that consumers’ utility for a good diminishes with increased consumption, firm supply curves are generally upward sloping.The upward sloping character reflects that firms will be willing to increase production in response to a higher market price because the higher price may make additional production profitable.

 

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