Consumer is said to be in equilibrium, maximizing his total utility, when
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The marginal utilities of the two goods consumed are equal.
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The proportions of the marginal utilities and respective prices are equal.
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The consumer gets full satisfaction from the consumption.
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The consumer feels satisfied with his expenditure on the various goods.
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Which one of the following is not the basic assumption of Cardinal Utility analysis?
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Rationality of Consumer.
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Utility cardinally measurable.
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Diminishing marginal utility of money.
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Hypothesis of independent utilities.
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There are no exceptions to the Law of demand in the case of
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Giffen goods
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Normal Goods
25%
Articles of conspicuous consumption
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Ignorance of the buyer
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Which of the following is the basis of diminishing marginal utility?
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Law of demand
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Laws of return
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Law of supply
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None of the above
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What is the law that defines the demand curve to slope downward known as?
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Diminishing marginal utility
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Utility maximisation
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Utility minimisation
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Consumer equilibrium
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Why is a consumer spending restricted?
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Due to the utility maximization
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Due to the budget constraint
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Due to the demand curve
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Due to the marginal utility
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Moving along an indifference curve the:
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Consumers prefer some of the consumption points to others.
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Marginal rate of substitution for a good increase as more of the good is consumed.
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Marginal rate of substitution is constant.
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Consumers do not prefer one consumption point to another.
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the slope of the indifference curve is equal to which of the following?
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One
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Marginal utility
48%
Marginal rate of substitution
6%
None of these
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Why is the indifference curve convex to origin?
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Due to continuous decline of marginal rate of substitution
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Due to law of diminishing marginal utility
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Due to monotonic preferences
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Both a and b
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which of the following is not the property of indifference curves?
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Higher the indifference curve, higher is the level of satisfaction.
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Indifference curve is downward sloping.
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Indifference curve is concave to origin.
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Two indifference curves cannot intersect each other.
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Hicks and Allen believed that utility:
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Can be measured in cardinal numbers
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Can be measured in ordinal numbers
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Cannot be measured
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Cannot be expressed
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as we move down the indifference curve from left to right, the slope of the indifference curve tends to which of the following?
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Unity
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Zero
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Decline
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Rise
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In the indifference map, a higher IC indicates which of the following?
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Lower level of satisfaction
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Higher level of satisfaction
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Same level of satisfaction
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Either higher or same level of satisfaction
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Two indifference curves cannot cut each other because of which of the following?
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They represent those combinations of two goods that give the same satisfaction.
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The slope is downwards.
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Each indifference curve represents a different level of satisfaction.
11%
They are convex to origin.
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An indifference curve is related to which of the following?
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Choices and preferences of consumer
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Prices of goods X and Y
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Consumer’s income
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Total utility from goods X and Y
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An Indifference curve slope down towards right since more of one commodity and less of another result in which of the following?
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Decreasing expenditure
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Maximum satisfaction
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Greater satisfaction
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Same satisfaction
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Which one of the following is not a property of indifference curve?
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Negatively sloping.
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Convex to the point of origin.
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Indifference curves necessarily have to be parallel.
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Two indifference curves do not intersect each other.
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A rectangular hyperbola shaped demand curve on all its points has
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Equal slopes of the price demand curve
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Price elasticity equal to unity
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Varying price elasticity
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Both slope and price elasticity equal
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According to the IC approach, at the point of equilibrium:
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The slope of I C> slope of the price line
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The slope of IC < slope of the price line
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The slope of IC ≠ slope of the price line
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The slope of IC= slope of the price line
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The substitution effect describes how
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an increase in income causes buyers to purchase different products
20%
the opportunities for minorities are affected by affirmative action's policies
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additional satisfaction from each additional unit of the product consumed in a given time decreases
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a price increase creates incentives for buyers to seek alternatives
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Ordinal utility analysis of the consumer's behaviour is considered superior to the cardinal utility analysis mainly due to
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Assumption of the rationality of the consumer’s behaviour.
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Possibility of the derivation of the consumer's demand.
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Bifurcation of price effects into income and substitution effects.
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Consideration of the available limited resources for satisfying consumer’s demand.
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