WorksheetsBusiness Management- Chapter 8 Test
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 17mins
Form utility usually applies only to services and not goods.
True
False
Economic utility is one of the four types of utility that satisfy wants.
True
False
Selling snow tires to a customer during the first snowstorm of the season is an example of providing time utility.
True
False
Entrepreneurship is a factor of production.
True
False
If a country did not produce any capital goods, it could not produce many consumer goods.
True
False
Capital goods directly satisfy human wants.
True
False
The United States has adequate resources to satisfy all the wants of all its people.
True
False
Countries with a command economy are often dictatorships.
True
False
Privatization occurs when a government transfers to a business its authority to provide a good or service.
True
False
Demand is represented by wanting an expensive sports car without having the money to buy it.
True
False
Satisfying wants involves four types of utility: time, place, possession, and
economy
capital
form
labor
Producing omelet pans with nonstick coating addresses which type of utility?
form
possession
time
place
Which statement is true about capital goods?
They increase production costs.
They decrease the productivity of labor.
They increase the production of goods.
They decrease the productivity of management.
All of the following are basic features of capitalism EXCEPT
private property ownership
governmental control over wages
business competition
right to make a profit
Steel that is used to produce tools and machinery is classified as a
consumer good
capital good
market good
production good
In which type of economy does a central planning authority determine what, how, and for whom goods and services are produced?
command economy
mixed economy
capital economy
market economy
In which political-economy system does the government have extensive control over the allocation of some resources but little control over distribution?
communism
socialism
capitalism
mixed
The right to own property is NOT a feature of
pure communism
mixed economies
traditional capitalism
Western Europe socialism
Which statement is most accurate about demand?
If demand drops, profits drop.
If demand drops, profits increase.
If demand increases, profits drop.
If demand drops, profits are not affected.
If product is in short supply, what generally occurs?
The price drops.
The price rises.
The demand decreases.
The price is unaffected.
A product's market price is the price at which
the producer makes a reasonable profit
the producer sells at a manageable loss
consumer demand begins to drop
the producer can no longer meet costs
What normally happens during a recession?
Both unemployment and production increase.
Total supply exceeds demand.
Total demand exceeds supply.
The economic growth rate increases rapidly.
A country's economic growth occurs when
population growth exceeds output
capital formation increases
imports exceeds exports
output exceeds population growth
What typically occurs during a period of high inflation?
Total supply exceeds demand.
Prices rise rapidly.
The purchasing power of money rises.
Prices slowly decline.
The production of capital goods.
capital formation
supply
producer
human capital
Accumulated knowledge and skills of human beings.
human capital
capital formation
competition
labor
The human effort expended to produce goods and services.
labor
human capital
capital formation
supply
Anyone who creates a utility.
producer
labor
competition
economic system
The existence of only one seller of a product.
monopoly
supply
producer
demand
The way that a country decides how to use its productive resources.
economic system
capital formation
supply
producer
The number of products that will be bought at a given time at a given price.
demand
supply
CPI
labor
The number of like products that will be offered for sale at a particular time at a particular price.
supply
demand
monopoly
production
Rivalry among sellers for consumers' dollars.
competition
supply
capital formation
demand
A measure of the average change in prices of consumer goods and services.
CPI
human capital
capital formation
labor
