If price of an article decreases from Rs P1 to Rs 190, when quantity demanded increases from 5000 units to 5200 units, and if point elasticity of demand is -0.8 find P1?
Correct Answer: Persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment
2. Match the characteristics with their market structure: (a) Expand out put until MC = MR (b) Elasticity of demand depends on pricing policies of rivals
Options
A. (a) Pure competition, (b) Pure Monopoly
B. (a) Pure Monopoly, (b) Monopolistic competition
4. The change in the optimal quantity of a good when its price changes and the consumer?s income is adjusted so that she can just buy the bundle that she was buying before the price change is called?
6. A beedi making workshop can hire 5 women by paying them Rs. 300 per day. The 6th woman demands Rs. 350 per day. If this woman is hired then all other women must be paid Rs. 350. The marginal resource (labour) cost of the 6th woman is
Correct Answer: high inflation, low growth, high unemployment
8. Irfaan loves black coffee. A roadside stall selling a cup of black coffee at Rs. 120, offered 25% discount to Irfaan. If Irfaan was willing to pay even Rs. 200 for this cup of black coffee, Irfaan's consumer surplus is