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Unit 2:Consumption Analysis
I. Multiple Choice questions.
1. Pick the odd one out
a. Luxuries
b. Comforts
c. Necessaries
d. Agricultural goods
Answer key:
d. Agricultural goods
2. Choice is always constrained or limited by the - --- of our resources.
a. Scarcity
b. Supply
c. Demand
d. Abundance
Answer key:
a. Scarcity
3. The chief exponent of the Cardinal utility approach was
a. J.R.Hicks
b. R.G.D.Allen
c. Marshall
d. Stigler
Answer key:
c. Marshall
4. Marginal Utility is measured by using the formula of
a. TUn-TUn-1
b. TUn-TUn+1
c. TUn+TUn+1
d. TUn-TUn+1
Answer key:
a. TUn-TUn-1
5. When marginal utility reaches zero, the total utility will be
a. Minimum
b. Maximum
c. Zero
d. Negative
Answer key:
b. Maximum
6. Gossen’s first law is known as.
a. Law of equi-marginal utility.
b. Law of diminishing marginal utility
c. Law of demand.
d. Law of Diminishing returns.
Answer key:
b. Law of diminishing marginal utility
7. The basis for the law of demand is related to
a. Law of diminishing marginal utility
b. Law of supply
c. Law of equi-marginal utility.
d. Gossen’s Law.
Answer key:
a. Law of diminishing marginal utility
8. The concept of consumer’s surplus is associated with
a. Adam Smith
b. Marshall
c. Robbins
d. Ricardo
Answer key:
b. Marshall
9. Given potential price is Rs.250 and the actual price is Rs.200. Find the consumer surplus.
a. 375
b. 175
c. 200
d. 50
Answer key:
d. 50
10. Indifference curve approach is based on
a. Ordinal approach
b. Cardinal approach
c. Subjective approach
d. Psychological approach
Answer key:
a. Ordinal approach
11. The concept of elasticity of demand was introduced by
a. Ferguson
b. Keynes
c. Adam Smith
d. Marshall
Answer key:
d. Marshall
12. Increase in demand is caused by
a. Increase in tax
b. Higher subsidy
c. Increase in interest rate
d. decline in population
Answer key:
b. Higher subsidy
13. The movement on or along the given demand curve is known as
a. Extension and contraction of demand.
b. shifts in the demand.
c. increase and decrease in demand.
d. all the above
Answer key:
a. Extension and contraction of demand.
14. In case of relatively more elastic demand the shape of the curve is
a. Horizontal
b. Vertical
c. Steeper
d. Flatter
Answer key:
15. A consumer is in equilibrium when marginal utilities from two goods are
a. Minimum
b. Inverse
c. Equal
d. Increasing
Answer key:
d. Increasing
16. Indifference curve was first introduced by
a. Hicks
b. Allen
c. Keynes
d. Edgeworth
Answer key:
c. Keynes
17. Elasticity of demand is equal to one indicates
a. Unitary Elastic Demand
b. Perfectly Elastic Demand
c. Perfectly Inelastic Demand
d. Relatively Elastic Demand
Answer key:
d. Relatively Elastic Demand
18. The locus of the points which gives same level of satisfaction is associated with
a. Indifference Curves
b. Cardinal Analysis
c. Law of Demand
d. Law of Supply
Answer key:
a. Indifference Curves
19. Ordinal Utility can be measured by
a. Ranking
b. Numbering
c. Wording
d. None of these
Answer key:
a. Ranking
20. The indifference curve are
a. vertical
b. horizontal
c. positive sloped
d. Negatively sloped
Answer key:
d. Negatively sloped
II. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
21. Define
Utility.
Utility is the want-satisfying power of a commodity or a
service.
22. Mention the classifications of wants.
1. Necessaries
: food
2. Comforts
: TV, Fan
3. Luxuries
: Diamonds and Cars.
23. Name the basic approaches to consumer
behaviour.
1. Cardinal Approach
2. Ordinal Approach
24. What are the degrees of price elasticity of Demand?
Ep = ∞
|
Ep =0
|
Ep>1
|
Ep<1
|
Ep =1
|
25. State
the meaning of indifference curves.
An Indifference
Curve is the locus of all combinations of any two goods which give equal
satisfaction to the consumer.
26. Write
the formula of consumers surplus.
Consumer’s
surplus = Potential price – Actual price
27. What are
Giffen goods? Why?
·
Rice
and Ragi
·
When
the price of an inferior good falls, the poor will buy less and vice versa.
III. Answer the following questions in one paragraph.
28. Describe
the feature of human wants.
1.
Wants are unlimited
2.
Wants become habits
3.
Wants are Alternative
4.
Wants are Competitive
5.
Wants are complementary
6.
Wants are recurring
29. Mention the
relationship between marginal utility and total utility.
MARGINAL UTILITY
|
TOTAL UTILITY
|
It declines
|
It increases
|
It reaches zero
|
It reaches maximum
|
It becomes
negative
|
It declines
|
30. Explain the
concept of consumer’s equilibrium with a diagram.
Meaning ; Consumer will attain equilibrium when he gets maximum satisfaction from his
expenditure on different goods is highest.
E is the point of equilibrium as budget line
AB is tangent on indifference curve IC2 the upper IC which implies maximum possible
level of satisfaction.
At equilibrium point, MRSx,y = Px/Py.
31 &
33. Explain the theory of “consumer’s surplus” .
“The excess of price which a person would be willing to pay rather than go
without the thing, over that which he actually does pay, is the economic
measure of this surplus of satisfaction.
It may be called consumer's surplus.
where, TU = Total Utility, P = Price
and Q= Quantity of the commodity
32. Distinguish between extension and contraction of
demand
33.What are the properties of indifference curves?
4. Indifference Curves are convex to the origin
IV. Answer the following questions in about a page.
34. Explain
the law of demand and its exceptions.
Definition
According to Alfred Marshall, The Law of Demand said as “the quantity
demanded increases
with a fall in price and diminishes with a rise in price”.
Assumptions
of Law of Demand
1. The income of the consumer remains constant.
2. The taste, habit and preference of the consumer remain
the same.
3. The prices of other related goods should not
change
DEMAND SCHEDULE
1. Quantity demanded and Y axis represents the
price of the commodity.
2. DD is
the demand curve, which has a negative slope.
A fall
in price brings about a contraction of demand and a rise in price results in an
extension of demand. Therefore the demand curve slopes upwards from left to
right.
Exception to the Law of Demand
1. Giffen Paradox
2. Veblan Effect
3. Speculation
4. Ignorance
35.
Elucidate the law of diminishing marginal utility with diagram.
Definition
Marshall states the law as, “the
additional benefit which a person derives from a given increase
of his stock of a thing,
diminishes with every increase in the stock that he already has”.
Assumption
1. Utility can be measured by cardinal number
(Eg:1,2, 3..)
2. The marginal utility of money remains
constant.
Units
of Apple
|
TU
|
MU
|
1
|
20
|
20
|
2
|
30
|
10
|
3
|
30
|
0
|
4
|
25
|
-5
|
Explanation
1. Suppose a consumer wants to consume 4 apples
one after another.
2. The utility from the first apple is 20. But the
utility from the second apple will be less than that of the first (say 10), the
third less than that of the second (say 0) and so on.
3. Finally, the utility from the third apple becomes zero
and the utilities from fourth apples are negative.
36. What
are the methods of measuring Elasticity of demand?
Methods of measuring Elasticity of
Demand:
1.The Percentage Method 2. Total
Outlay Method 3. Point or Geometrical Elasticity
1. The Percentage Method
It is also known as ratio method,
when we measure the ratio as:
2. Total Outlay Method
This examines the change in total outlay of
the consumer or total revenue of the firm
3. Point or Geometrical Elasticity
L - Lower
segment of the demand curve
U- Upper segment of t e demand curve
37.
Explain the law of Equi-marginal utility.
Meaning
·
The law
of equi-marginal utility states that the consumer will distribute his money
·
income
between the goods in such a way that the utility derived from the last rupee
spend on each good is equal.
·
. In other words, consumer is in equilibrium
position when marginal utility of money expenditure on each goods is the same.
Equi-marginal =
Assumption
1. The
consumer is rational in the sense that he wants to get
maximum
satisfaction.
2. The
utility of each commodity is measurable in cardinal numbers.
Explanation
1. X
axis represents the amount of money spent and Y axis represents the marginal
utilities
of Apple and Orange respectively.
2. If
the consumer spends .6 on Apple and .5 on Orange, the marginal utilities of
both are
equal i.e.,AA1=BB1 (4=4).
3.
Hence, he gets maximum utility.
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