MCQ Economics Class 12 Chapter 2 Theory of Consumer Behavior Microeconomics Advertisement MCQ’s For All Chapters – Microeconomics Class 12th 1. What does the budget line represent?Bundles costing exactly the consumer's entire incomeBundles costing more than incomeBundles costing nothingOnly bundles below the consumer's incomeQuestion 1 of 202. What is the slope of the budget line?p₁/p₂−p₁/p₂p₂/p₁−p₂/p₁Question 2 of 203. What happens to the budget line when consumer income increases while prices remain unchanged?It shifts parallel inwardIt shifts parallel outwardIt becomes verticalIt remains unchangedQuestion 3 of 204. What happens when the price of bananas increases while income and the price of mangoes remain unchanged?The budget line becomes flatterThe budget line becomes steeperThe budget line shifts parallel outwardThe vertical intercept decreasesQuestion 4 of 205. Where is the consumer's optimum bundle generally located?Below the budget lineAbove the budget lineAt the tangency point of the budget line and an indifference curveAt the origin onlyQuestion 5 of 206. At the consumer's optimum, what is equal to the absolute value of the slope of the budget line?Total utilityMarginal utilityMarginal rate of substitutionTotal expenditureQuestion 6 of 207. What is called demand for a commodity?Quantity a consumer wants regardless of incomeQuantity a consumer is willing and able to buy at given prices and preferencesTotal quantity produced by firmsQuantity available in the marketQuestion 7 of 208. Which expression represents the demand function given in the chapter?X = f(P)P = f(X) onlyX = M + PP = X + MQuestion 8 of 209. What happens to the demand for bananas when their price falls, while other relevant factors remain unchanged?It decreasesIt increasesIt becomes zeroIt remains necessarily unchangedQuestion 9 of 2010. Which two effects explain the negative slope of the demand curve when the price of a commodity changes?Production effect and cost effectSubstitution effect and income effectSaving effect and investment effectSupply effect and production effectQuestion 10 of 2011. What is a normal good?A good whose demand decreases when income increasesA good whose demand moves in the same direction as incomeA good whose price never changesA good that has no substitutesQuestion 11 of 2012. Which of the following is an example of an inferior good mentioned in the chapter?Luxury carsCoarse cerealsGold jewelleryAir conditionersQuestion 12 of 2013. Which pair represents complementary goods?Tea and coffeeTea and sugarBananas and mangoesFive-rupee coins and five-rupee notesQuestion 13 of 2014. Which pair represents substitute goods?Tea and sugarShoes and socksTea and coffeePen and inkQuestion 14 of 2015. What causes a movement along a demand curve?Change in the price of the commodity itselfChange in consumer incomeChange in preferencesChange in the price of a related goodQuestion 15 of 2016. What is the market demand for a good at a particular price?Demand of the largest consumer onlyDemand of the producerTotal demand of all consumers taken togetherDemand at only the highest priceQuestion 16 of 2017. How can individual demand curves be combined to obtain the market demand curve?By vertical subtractionBy horizontal summationBy multiplying pricesBy adding incomesQuestion 17 of 2018. How is price elasticity of demand defined?Percentage change in price divided by incomePercentage change in demand divided by percentage change in priceTotal expenditure divided by demandPrice divided by quantityQuestion 18 of 2019. When is demand said to be unitary elastic?When percentage change in demand is greater than percentage change in priceWhen percentage change in demand is less than percentage change in priceWhen percentage change in demand equals percentage change in priceWhen demand does not change at allQuestion 19 of 2020. What type of demand curve is perfectly inelastic?Horizontal demand curveVertical demand curveDownward-sloping linear curveRectangular hyperbolaQuestion 20 of 20 Loading...
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