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A producer earns total revenue of Rs. 500 by selling 50 units of a commodity. How much price per unit he has charged for that commodity?
- A) Rs. 70
- B) Rs. 60
- C) Rs. 10
- D) Rs. 30
----------------- shows the cost differences to total cumulative output.
- A) Operating leverage
- B) Learning curve
- C) Scale economies
- D) Demand curve
If average cost in 2012 was Rs.100 and in 2013 fell to Rs.80, the learning rate is:
- A) 10%
- B) 20%
- C) 40%
- D) 30%
Cost is usually measured in:
- A) Monetary units
- B) Absolute term
- C) Physical units
- D) Percentage
Break even output can be calculated as:
- A) Break even output = Total variable cost / (Price + Average variable cost)
- B) Break even output = Total fixed cost / (Price – Average variable cost)
- C) Break even output = Total fixed cost / (Price + Average fixed cost)
- D) Break even output = Total fixed cost + (Price – Average variable cost)
If percentage change in cost is equal to the percentage change in output then:
- A) Cost elasticity is more than one
- B) Cost elasticity is less than one
- C) Cost elasticity is indeterminate
- D) Cost elasticity is equal to one
Cubic cost functions are graphically depicted as:
- A) Straight line
- B) U-shaped curves
- C) L-shaped curves
- D) S-shaped curves
The solution which satisfies all the constraints is known as the:
- A) Corner solution
- B) Wrong solution
- C) Non feasible solution
- D) Feasible solution
TVC = a + bQ. This equation depicts which of the following?
- A) Linear cost function
- B) Quadratic cost function
- C) Simultaneous function
- D) Cubic cost function
Which of the following will happen if there is a decrease in input prices for the firm?
- A) Cost function will shift upward
- B) Production will increase
- C) None of the given options
- D) Cost function will shift downward
High learning rate implies that as cumulative total output increases the manufacturing cost:
- A) not effected
- B) is rising
- C) becomes zero
- D) is declining
Short run average cost curves are U-shaped because of:
- A) The law of supply
- B) The law of diminishing returns
- C) The law of demand
- D) The law of diminishing utility
At breakeven quantity levels, total revenue used to be exactly equal to:
- A) fixed cost
- B) Total cost
- C) Variable cost
- D) Zero cost
Given the profit equation: $$\pi \, = \,10X\, + \,7Y$$ If we solve it for X, we obtain:
- A) $$X\, = \,\pi /10\, - \,10/10Y$$
- B) $$X\, = \,\pi /7\, - \,7/10Y$$
- C) $$X\, = \,\pi /10\, - \,10/7Y$$
- D) $$X\, = \,\pi /10\, - \,7/10Y$$
Which of the following is/are special type/s of problems of linear programming?
- A) Multiple optimal solutions
- B) Unbounded solutions
- C) Infeasible solutions
- D) All of the given options
If long run average cost increases with the increase in output, it shows:
- A) Economies of scale
- B) Returns to scale
- C) Diseconomies of scale
- D) Economies of scope
Operating leverage for a firm can be calculated as:
- A) Total fixed costs + Total variable costs
- B) Total fixed costs / Marginal costs
- C) Total fixed costs / Average variable costs
- D) Total fixed costs / Total variable costs
A producer sells 60 units of a commodity at the price of Rs. 10 per unit. How much total revenue he will earn?
- A) Rs. 600
- B) Rs. 700
- C) Rs. 100
- D) Rs. 300
In the linear programming model, linearity assumes constant prices of:
- A) capital
- B) Output
- C) Inputs
- D) labor
Which of the following model maximizes or minimizes a linear function subject to the set of linear constraints?
- A) Demand-Supply model
- B) Linear Programming model
- C) Regression model
- D) IS-LM model