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Theory of cost and revenue: WAEC Economics Past Questions and Answers

What the WAEC syllabus covers in Theory of cost and revenue

Our summary: The different measures of a firm's costs and revenue, and how economists and accountants see cost differently.

  • Cost concepts: total cost, average cost, marginal cost, variable cost, fixed cost; short run and long run costs
  • Distinction between economist's and accountant's view of cost (opportunity cost and money cost)
  • Revenue concepts: total, average and marginal revenue; marginal revenue product

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WAEC (WASSCE) Economics questions on Theory of cost and revenue

  1. WAEC 2024Which of the following best explains diseconomies of scale? Increase in output causes the
  2. WAEC 2023A fall in the price of a normal commodity which has elastic demand will result in
  3. WAEC 2023The average revenue curve of a firm in a perfect market is the same as the
  4. WAEC 2023The total fixed cost curve is
  5. WAEC 2021The relationship between the marginal revenue (MR) and the average revenue(AR) of a monopolist is that the marginal revenue curve …
  6. WAEC 2020One feature of the average fixed cost is that it
  7. WAEC 2019A cost of production that is positively related to output is the
  8. WAEC 2018in the the longrun, a firm must shut down if its average revenue is?
  9. WAEC 2018A firm average cost decreases in the longrun because?
  10. WAEC 2017The amount of money that a firm recieves from the sales of its output is called
  11. WAEC 2017when a firm is enjoying internal economies of scale, its?
  12. WAEC 2016The long run is a period when
  13. WAEC 2016The necessary condition for a firm to be in equilibrium is that marginal revenue is
  14. WAEC 2016At which stage of production should a firm shut down? when
  15. WAEC 2016What effect will an increase in price have on the total revenue of a firm whose product has inelastic demand? total revenue will
  16. WAEC 2015which of the following curves is not U shaped
  17. WAEC 2015Total cost is obtain by?

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