Institute of Business Management: Final Examinations - FALL 2020

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INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Final Examinations – FALL 2020

Course Title: Principle of Microeconomics Course Code: ECO-101 Faculty: Irfan Lal
Section: M-8351
Day / Date: 2, Jan., 2021 Timings: 9 to 12:00
Total Marks: 40
NAME: ZEHRA FATIMA ID: 20201- 27827

Student’s Name Student ID:

Note: Please attempt all questions.

Q. 1. Multiple choice questions, Choose the best option on LMS (15 marks)

Q#2, Suppose a firm has a patent on a special process to make a unique smoked salmon
fish. The following table provides information about the demand facing this firm for this
unique product. (6 marks)

Pounds of Fish 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Price 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6

Total Revenue

Marginal Revenue

a. Complete the table above. (1)

b. Plot the demand curve and the marginal-revenue curve (1)

c. Suppose that there are no fixed costs and that the marginal cost of production of smoked
salmon fish is constant at $6 per pound. (Thus, the average total cost is also constant at $6
per pound.) What is the quantity and price chosen by the monopolist? What is the profit
earned by the monopolist? Show your solution on the graph you created in part b above.
(2)

d. What is the price and quantity that maximizes total surplus? (1)
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e. Is there a deadweight loss in this market if the monopolist charges the monopoly price?
Explain. (1)

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Q#3. Differentiate (6)

a) Public good and publically provided private good


b) Allocative efficiency and Productive efficiency
c) Economic efficiency and technological efficiency

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Q. 4. Explain the concept of Kinked demand for oligopoly using graph and explain when does
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Kinked demand curve vanish (4 marks)


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Q#5 . Given the information below -------------------------------------------------- (4)

Units of X MUx Units of Y MUy


1 10 1 8
2 8 2 7
3 6 3 6
4 4 4 5
5 3 5 4 6 2 6 3
Assume you are choosing between two goods, X and Y, and your marginal utility from each
good is shown above. If your income is $9 and the prices of X and Y are $2 and $1 respectively.
(i). Using Marginal utility, calculate the amount of total utility you will realize for both goods.
(ii). What quantities of both goods you will choose when maximizing utility and why?
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Q.6. Determine wither the statement is True or False? If it is true, explain why it is true; or if it
is
False, explain why it is false? (5 marks)
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A. If we measure the quantity of French fries on the horizontal axis and the quantity of Zinger
burgers on the vertical and if the price of French fries is $0.60 and the price of a Zinger burger is
$2.40, then the slope of the budget constraint is 1/4 (and it is negative).

B. A budget constraint is a set of commodity bundles that provide the consumer with the same
level of satisfaction.

C. Indifference curves measure the consumer's willingness to trade one good for another good
while maintaining a constant level of satisfaction.

D. When drawn on a graph that measures the quantity of a good on each axis, indifference
curves are usually straight lines that slope downward (negatively).

E. If two goods are perfect complements, indifference curves associated with these two goods
would cross each other at the optimum.

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