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  1. What refers to the market situation in which any given product is supplied by a very large number of vendors and there is no restriction against additional vendors from entering the market?

  2. A.

     Perfect competition

    B.

     Oligopoly

    C.

     Oligopsony

    D.

     Monopoly


  3. The functional depreciation is sometimes called ______.

  4. A.

     Demand depreciation

    B.

     Adolescence

    C.

     Life depreciation

    D.

     Failure depreciation


  5. What is the simplest form of business organization?

  6. A.

     Sole proprietorship

    B.

     Partnership

    C.

     Enterprise

    D.

     Corporation


  7. Double taxation is a disadvantage of which business organization?

  8. A.

     Sole proprietorship

    B.

     Partnership

    C.

     Corporation

    D.

     Enterprise


  9. What is the present worth of a P500 annuity starting at the end of the third year and continuing to the end of the fourth year, if the annual interest rate is 10 %?

  10. A.

     P 727.17

    B.

     P 717.17

    C.

     P 714.71

    D.

     P 731.17


  11. You borrow P3,500.00 for one year from a friend at an interest rate of 1.5% per month instead of taking a loan from a bank at a rate of 18% per year. How much lesser you will pay by borrowing the money from the bank?

  12. A.

     P 62.44

    B.

     P44.55

    C.

     P54.66

    D.

     P37.56


  13. What refers to the negotiable claim issued by a bank in lien of a term deposit?

  14. A.

     Time deposit

    B.

     Bond

    C.

     Capital gain certificate

    D.

     Certificate of deposit


  15. If ‘a’ is the base amount expenditure, ‘b’ is the increase in the operation cost each year over a period of’ 'n’ years, the total cost of maintenance is:

  16. A.

     a + (n + 1) b

    B.

     a + (n - 1) b

    C.

     a × (n - 1) b

    D.

     a - (n - 1) b


  17. A ______ is a market situation where economies of scale are so significant that cost are only minimized when the entire output of an industry is supplied by a single producer so that the supply costs are lower under monopoly that under perfect competition.

  18. A.

     Perfect monopoly

    B.

     Bilateral monopoly

    C.

     Natural monopoly

    D.

     Ordinary monopoly


  19. Aside from many sellers and many buyers, which one is a characteristic of perfect competition?

  20. A.

     Homogeneous product

    B.

     Free market entry and exit

    C.

     Perfect information and absence of all economic friction

    D.

     All of the above