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Measuring Economic Performance MCQ

Measuring Economic Performance MCQ

1. Hubble's law was discovered using measurements of two properties of a galaxy: _______ and _______.

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Correct Answer: Distance; recession velocity

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2. Externalities are the effects caused by ______.

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Correct Answer: The production of goods

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3. GDP fails to take into account which of the following?

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Correct Answer: Quality of goods

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4. Which of the following is an accurate statement about nonmarket transactions?

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Correct Answer: They avoid the exchange of money.

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5. What is the only measurement that can be used to compare GDP over time?

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Correct Answer: Money

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6. The real output of goods and services per person is called the real ______ per capita.

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Correct Answer: GDP

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7. Which of the following often makes comparing GDP over time misleading?

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Correct Answer: Inflation

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8. If GNP is $15,000 and depreciation is $3,000, NNP is ______.

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Correct Answer: $12,000

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9. ______ are annual allowances set aside to replace worn-out capital.

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Correct Answer: Depreciation payments

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10. X – M is the equation for ______.

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Correct Answer: Net exports

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11. Cheese is an example of a ______ good.

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Correct Answer: Nondurable

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12. With the expenditure approach, what abbreviation represents exports?

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Correct Answer: X

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13. In economics, an investment refers to the creation of ______.

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Correct Answer: Capital goods

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14. Since 1929, consumption has been ______ of total expenditures for goods and services for the GDP.

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Correct Answer: More than 50%

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15. For the economy as a whole, which of the following must equal spending?

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Correct Answer: Income

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16. The ______ is used to measure the value of goods and services for GDP.

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Correct Answer: Dollar

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17. Real output of goods and services per person is real gross domestic product per capita

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Correct Answer: True

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18. Capital goods that increase future production capabilities are producer goods.

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Correct Answer: True

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19. The amount of income received by households before personal taxes is called

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Correct Answer: Personal income

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20. ____ items consumed in a short period of time, such as food

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Correct Answer: Intangible

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21. Net national product is GNP ___ depreciation

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Correct Answer: Minus

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22. A uniform means of measuring economic performance is national income accounting

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Correct Answer: True

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23. ____ income is measure of income earned by owners of the factors of production

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Correct Answer: National

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24. The creation of capital goods to augment future production is called

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Correct Answer: Investment

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25. Purchases that add to the stocks of goods kept by the firm to meet consumer demand is ____ investment

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Correct Answer: Inventory

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26. Taxes, such as sales tax, levied on goods and services sold is ___ business taxes

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Correct Answer: Indirect

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27. Gross domestic product is measure of economic performance based on the value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a given period

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Correct Answer: True

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28. All new spending on capital goods by producers is ___ investment

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Correct Answer: Fixed

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29. Wages (salaries), rent, interest payments, and profits paid to the owners of productive resources are factor payments

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Correct Answer: True

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30. The calculation of GDP by adding the expenditures of market participants on final goods and services over a given period is expenditure approach

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Correct Answer: True

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31. Longer-lived consumer goods, such as automobiles are durable goods

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Correct Answer: True

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32. Adding the value of a good or service more than once by mistakenly counting the intermediate goods and services in GDP is ____ counting

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Correct Answer: Double

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33. Disposable personal income is the personal income available after personal taxes

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Correct Answer: True

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34. Annual allowance set aside to replace worn-out capital is called

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Correct Answer: Depreciation

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35. Purchases of final goods and services is called

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Correct Answer: Consumption

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