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    ubject Code : 07                                            Subject : Economics
     LECTURERS FOR NON.GOVT. AIDED COLLEGES OF ODISHA
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1. The Engel curve for necessaries                       (B) Variable proportions between
      goods is :                                               two factors
      (A) Positively sloped at a flafter                 (C) lncreasing Returns to Scale
            rate                                         (D) Decreasing Returns to Scale
      (B) Positively sloped at a steeper
                                                     5. Underperfectcompetition shortrun
            rate
                                                         supply curve is identified as :
      (C) Negativelysloped
                                                         (A) Rising portion of the Marginal
      (D) Horizontal                                           Cost Curve

2. Which of the folloriving is not a feature             (B) Rising portion of the Average
     of the Revealed Preference Theory                        Cost Curve
     of Consumer Behayiour ?                             (C) Rising portion of the Marginal
     (A) Behaviouristordinalist                               Cost Curve lying above the
     (B) Transitive                                           Average Variable Cost Curve

     (C) Weakordering                                    (D) Rising portion of the Average
                                                              Variable Cost Curve
     (D) Consistencyofchoice
                                                     6   ln the Kinked Demand Curvetheory
3. ln case of Cobb-Douglas Production
                                                         of Oligopoly if MC curve shifts
     Function, elasticity. of factor'
                                                         upward in the d[scontinuous range of
     substitution is:
                                                         MR Curve, then atequilibrium :
     (A) Zero
                                                         (A) Price rises but quantity of
     (B) Equalto Unity
                                                              output remainsthe same
     (C) Greaterthan Unity
                                                         (B) Price and quantity of output both
     (D) Lessthan Unity                                       remain the same

4. With L-shaped lsoquants, the                          (C) Quantityof output rises but price
     production function exhibits' :                          remainsthe same

     (A) Fixed proportions between two                   (D) Price and quantity of output
            factors                                           both rise


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7    Quasi-Rent is :                                     (C) Both behave selfishly and
     (A) Equaltototal profitsofthefirm                        confess to the crime and cheat

     (B) Lessthan totalprofits of thefirm                     each other

     (C) The excess of Total Revenue                     (D) Neitherof them confess
           over Total Variable Cost
                                                  10. Equilibrium of Payoff Matrix is
     (D) The excess of total revenue
                                                         achieved atthe Saddle point by:
           overtotalcost
                                                         (A) Maximin Strategy
8.   The inconsistency of which of the
                                                         (B) Maximin and Minimax
     following criteria is labelled as
                                                              Strategies
     Scitovsky Paradox ?

     (A) Little Criterion                                (C) MinimaxStrategy

     (B) Pareto Criterion                                (D) DominantStrategy

     (C) Bergson Criterion                        11. Which of the following is not corect
     (D) Kaldor-HicksCriterion                           in National lncomeAccounting ?


I    Which one of the following is the                   (A) National lncome = NNP at
     strategic behaviour in case of                           factor cost

     Prisoner's Dilemma of two rivalfirms                (B) NNP = GNP - Depreciation
     in duopoly games ?
                                                         (C) NDP at market price = NDP at
     (A) Both of them cooperate by
                                                              factorcost + indirecttaxes less
           enforcing agreements
                                                              subsidies
     (B) Both of them choose the
                                                         (D) GNP = GDP - Net factor
           dominant strategy of                      '        income from abroad
           advertisement

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12. GreenAccounting is    :                           (B) Money Multiplier
    (A) lncreasing the forest cover                   (C) Bank Credit Multiplier
    (B) Adoption of the practices of
                                                      (D) lnvestmentMultiplier
           Green Revolution

    (C) Computation of National                  15. Non-Accelerating lnflation Rate of
           lncome taking into accountthe             U nemployment(NAl RU) represents :

           damage and depletion of
                                                      (A) The steady state rate of
           naturalresource base
                                                           unemployment in the long run
    (D) Contribution of renewable
                                                      (B) Shortrun rateof unemployment
           sources of energy sector to
           Nationallncome                             (C) Difference between actua!

13. Which of the following is not                          rate and expected rate of

    considered as wealth in Friedman's                     inflation

    demand for money ?                                (D) Disequilibrium due to structural
    (A) Money                                              imperfections
    (B) Bonds
                                                 16. The ability of commercial banks to
    (C) Equity
                                                      increase their loans and advances
    (D) Gold
                                                     depends upon
14. Expressing 'H' as high-powered
    money, 'C'as the currency deposit
                                                      (A) Holding of Government
    ratio and 'r'as the reserve deposit                    Securities

                                  1+c                 (B) Cash Position
    ratio, the equation M=H       r+c
    represents:
                                                      (C) Excess Cash Rgserves

    (A) Deposit Multiplier                            (D) Non-PerformingAssets

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17. Which one of the following is not a                (C) Consumption is determined by
     Non-Banking Financial lntermediary ?                    transitory income

     (A) LrC                                           (D) Equitable distribution of
     (B) lFCl                                                inCome leads to greater

     (c) slDBl                                               demonstration effect


     (D) IRDA                                     20. With the lS curves, in the Keynesian
                                                       range of the LM curve in the Liquidity
18. Which of thefollowing is notexplored
                                                       Trap situation :
     in the Mundell-Fleming Model?

     (A) Functioning in             open
                                                       (A) There is no crowding out effect

            economy
                                                       (B) There isfull crowding outeffect

     (B) Crowding out investment                       (C) Monetary Policyisfullyeffective

     (C) Perfect capital mobility                      (D) Fiscal Policy is totally
                                                             ineffective
     (D) Achieve both internal and
            extemalbalance                        21. Which one of the following
                                                       phenomenon explains the'free rider'
19. The Relative lncome Hypothesis
                                                       problem in Public Economics ?
     states that :

     (A) Short term            average
                                                       (A) Ticketless travel in the lndian
                                                             Railway
            consumption function is
            proportional                               (B) Provision of pure public goods

     (B) Ratchet effect operates from                  (C) Provision of Merit goods
            the previous peak level of                 (D) Supply of partial Social goods
            consumption                                      with externalities



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22. According to Peacock-Wiseman                      (B) Equityeffect
    hypothesis public expenditure                     (C) Distortion in allocation of
    grows:
                                                            resources

    (A) Steadilyovera period oftime                   (D) Welfare loss in terms of shift
    (B) At a constant proportion in                         away from Pareto Optimality
           relation to GNP
                                                 25. The Planning Programming and
    (C) ln a step-like manner
                                                      Budgeting System (PPBS) :
    (D) At a less than proportionate
                                                      (A) Stresses on outcome only
           rate in relation to GNP
                                                      (B) Emphasises on physical
23. The technique of 'Shadow Prices'
                                                            targets
    used in Social Cost-Benefit Analysis
                                                      (C) Stresses on optimalallocation
    of project evaluation has been
                                                            of resources
    contributed by:
                                                      (D) Considers the budget as a
    (A) H. B. Chenery
                                                            whole rather than to examine
    (B) E. J. Mishan
                                                            the incremental changes only
    (C) J. Tinbergen
    (D) H. Leibenstein                           26   Equity in taxition can best be

                                                      achieved by applying the principle
24. Which one of the following is not a
                                                      of:
    measurement of 'deadweight loss' in

    taxation ?
                                                      (A) Benefit

     (A) Costs in terms of loss of                    (B) EqualAbsoluteSacrifice
                                                      (C) EqualProportionalsacrifice
       . Consumer's Surplus and
           Producer's Surplus                         (D) EqualMarginalSacrifice

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27. Fiscaldeficit in the budget means:                (B) Aidsfrom foreign country
     (A) Budgetary deficit plus the net               (C) lnterest receipts
            borrowings of the Government              (D) Disposing gold reserves of
     (B) Primary deficit minus Capital                      India with foreign Central Banks

            deficit                               30. The Fifteenth Finance Commission
     (C) Revenue deficit plus the net                 has recommended statEs'Share in

            borrowings of the Government              the divisible pool of taxes at what

     (D) Capital deficit plus the                     percent ?

            Revenue deficit                           (A) 30%
                                                      (B) 41o/o
28. The FRBM Act, 2003 mandates to
     establish fiscal discipline by
                                                      (C) 42o/o

     eliminating:                                     (D) 44o/o

     (A) Fiscal Deficit                           31, The primary objective of Debt
     (B) Revenue Deficit                              Sustainability is :

     (C) Both Revenue Deficit and                     (A) Shifting the burden of public
            Fisca! Deficit
                                                            debtto posterity

     (D) Budgetary Deficit                            (B) Io reduce the Debt-GDP
                                                            ratio
29. Which of the following is a source of
                                                      (C) Substitution of new loans to
     non-tax revenue of the Government
                                                            reduce the debt burden of the
     of lndia ?
                                                            old one
     (A) Borrowing from foreign
                                                      (D) Lengthening the maturity
            Govemment
                                                            period of bonds


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32. Denoting the price of capital and                    (B) No protective effect
     labour by Px and P. respectively                    (C) Averysmall protectiveeffect
     and countries byA and B, if :                       (D) Avery large protective effect
             f't) -'[[J,
                     [P^')                          35. The Purchasing Power ParityTheory
             IP. ,j^
                                                         does not explain :
     (A) Country B is relatively capital
           abundant                                      (A) There is inconvertible paper
                                                              currency in the two countries
     (B) Country A is relatively labour
           abundant                                      (B) How rate of exchange is fixed
     (C) Country A is relatively capital                 (C) Why and how much is the
           abundant                                           change in exchange rate

     (D) Relative factor abundance is                    (D) How much is the'demand for
           indeterminate                                      and supply of foreign exchange


33. What is the ratio between the price             36. Arbitrage in international payments
     of a country's export goods and                     means:
     price of its import goods ?                         (A) Settlement between Central
     (A) Netbartertermsoftrade                                Banks

     (B) Single factoralterms of trade                   (B) The act of simultaneously
     (C) Doublefactoraltermsoftrade                           buying a currency in cheaper

     (D) !ncome terms of trade                                market for sale in the costlier

                                                              market
34. lf the supply of a commodity is very
                                                         (C) Saleand purchaseofdomestic
     inelastic in the exporting country and
                                                              currency for fo reig n b uyers
     demand for the same is fairly elastic

     in the importing country the                        (D) Speculation in foreign
     imposition of tariff willhave:                           currencies in a situation of
.
     (A) Verylarge revenue effect                             deficit in balance of payments


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37.'Beggar-thy-neighbour Policy' refers                    (B) Agreement relating to
     to:                                                        Agriculture

     (A) Competitive depreciation by                       (C) Administer the Trade Policy
            each country to increase                            ReviewMechanism

            exports                                        (D) frade related lntellectual
                                                                Property Rights
     (B) Expenditure-switching policy
     (C) Expenditure-reducingpolicy                   41. Which of the following is not a
                                                           dimension formeasuring the Human
     (D) The practice of Dumping
                                                           Development lndex(HDl) ?
38. Which of thefollowing is notincluded                   (A) Health
     in Current Account of balance of                      (B) Education
     payments ?                                            (C) Gender Equality
     (A) Merchandise                                       (D) Standard of living
     (B) Foreign investment                           42. What is the correct sequence of the
     (C) Transfer payments                                 following approaches to development

     (D) TravelandTransportation                           in terms of their chronological
                                                           emergence ?
39. The IMF corrects which of the
                                                           1. Basic needs approach
     following in balance of payments ?
                                                           2. Percapita income approach
     (A) Fundamentaldisequilibrium                         3. Human Development lndex
     (B) Structuraldisequilibrium                               approach

     (C) Seculardisequilibrium                             Select the correct answer using the

     (D) SDRs                                              codes given below :

                                                           (A) 1-2-3
40. Which one of the following does not
     constitute a part of the jurisdiction of
                                                           (B) 2-1-3
     WTO ?                                                 (c) 2-3 -    1



     (A) Regionaltradeagreement                            (D) 1-3-2

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43. Capital fundamentalism refers to                     (C) Rateof growthof labour= Rate
         which of thefollowing ?                                   of growth of capital

         (A) Capitalstructureofacountry                      (D) Rate of growth of population =
         (B) Acceleratiort of capital                              Rate of growth of income

                accum u lation for development
                                                        46. Use of different production functions
         (C) Acapitalistsystem of economy                    in the modern sector and the
         (D) Grovyth of capitalexpenditure                   traditional sector is identified as :

    44. Which of thefollowing is required for                (A) SocialDualism
         steady growth in the Harrod's                       (B) FinancialDualism
         mode!?                                              (C) TechnologicalDualism
         (A) G>Gw<Gn                                         (D) !ntemationalDualism
         (B) G=G*=Gn
                                                        47. Suppose there are three curvesA, B
         (C) Al > ao                                         and C corresponding to the degrees
             AI AY
         (D) i=?.o"                                          of distribution of income among
                                                             population of three sections. The
    45. Joan Robinson's modelof economic
                                                             curve B is farther and curve C
         growth enunciates that there is
                                                         .   remains farthest from the diagonal
         GoldenAge equilibrium when :
                                                             line A. Which is the line of Equal
         (A) Forward linkages = Backward                     Distribution of income ?
                linkages
        .                                                    (A) CurveA
         (B) Actual rate of capital
                                                             (B) Curve B
                accumulation is less than
a
                                                             (C) Curve C
            .   Desired rate of capltal
                                                             (D) Both the curves B and C
                accumulation

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48. The Multidimensional Poverty lndex                      (C) PoorGovemance
    (MPl) has been introduced bY the :
                                                            (D) Corruption in public Iife
    (A) NSSo
                                                       51. Green field investment implies :
    (B) UNDP
                                                            (A)   Foreign Direct lnvestment of a
    (C) NlTlAayog
    (D) cMlE                                                      parent company in a new

                                                                  venture in aforeign country
49. Which of the following is not the
    influence of change of institutions in                  (B)   Investment in ecological

    economic development ?                                        balance

    (A) Changes in attitude                                 (c) lnvestment in Shares and
    (B) Technological innovations                                 Bonds
    (C) Rural-urbanimbalance
                                                            (D)   lnvestment by Non-resident
    (D) Growth of entrepreneurship
                                                                  !ndians

50. The idea of 'Soft State' used by
                                                       52. Which one of the following is not a
    Gunnar Myrdalin his'Asian Drama'

    means:                                                  component of foreign aid of a

    (A) Laxity in administration bythe                      country?

           State Machinery and lenient                      (A) BilateralGrant
           attitude of State towards social
                                                            (B) MultilateralGrant .
           deviance
                                                            (C) Grants from lnternational
    (B) Non-economic and other
                                                                  Financial lnstitutions
           attitudinal changes laging
           behind materiat changes                          (D) Commercialbonowing

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53. The Prebisch-Singer hypothesis                   climate change for environmental

      enunciateswhich of thefollowing ?              sustainability ?

      (A) lnternational trade has been               (A) Use of non-fossilfuels
            operating as a mechanism of
                                                     (B) Promoting clean and
            intemational inequalities
                                                           renewable energy

      (B) lmport substitution has led to
                                                     (C) Establishment of more forest-
            the malallocation of resources
                                                           based industries

      (C) Foreign trade encourages
                                                     (D) S'trategic DisasterManagement
            healthy competition
                                                 56. The ContingentValuation Method   :

      (D) Economic development is
                                                     (A) Elicits information on
            accelerated by dualistic nature
                                                          willingness to pay or
            of the economy
                                                          willingness to accept
54.   The most popular definition of
                                                          compensation
      Sustainable development is given
                                                     (B) Relies on time and travelcosts
      by:
                                                     (C) Reflects individuals payment
      (A) UNDP
                                                          for both environmental assests
      (B) rMF
                                                          and non-environmental
      (C) BrundtlandCommission                             characteristics

      (D) |BRD                                        (D) Use of 'Option Value' for
55    Which of the following is not a                      postponing the use of the

      mitigation and adaptation strategy to                environmental resources


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57. Which of the following is not                    (c) Adoption of physical capital

    associated with the Coase theorem ?                    deepening methods


    (A) Property rights are clearlY                  (D)   Education, Housing and control


           defined                                         of Population growth

                                                                        ,.

    (B) Low bargaining cost                      60.'Outofpocketexpenditure' on health

    (C) Govemmentalinterference                      care relates to the problem of :


    (D) Justification of bribe                        (A) Availability of          health

                                                           infrastructure
58. Which of the following is not a
                                                      (B) Affordabilityin private hospitals
    component of Social Forestry
                                                           at highercost
    Programme ?
                                                      (C) Quality and Regulatory
    (A) Farm Forestry
                                                           Stdndard on health parameters
    (B) PublicWoodlots
                                                      (D) Paymentoffinancialincentives
    (C) CommunityWoodlots
                                                           and health insurance to the
    (D) CentralisedManagement                              beneficiaries


59. Human capital formation includes 61. What is the sex ratio in lndia
    investmenton                                      according to 2011 Census ?

    (A) Education, Health and Social                  (A) s33
           Security                                   (B) e38
    (B) Education, Health and                         (c) e40
           Training                                   (D) e46

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62. Demographic Dividend means                     64. National lncome of lndia is estimated
    (A) Population explosion due to                     by:

           high birth rat€ and low death                (A) Central               Statistical

                                                              Organisation
           rate

                                                        (B) NlTlAayog
    (B) The working population in the
                                                        (C) lndian Statistical lnstitute
           productive age group 15-64
                                                        (D) Centre for Monitoring lndian
           years leading to a rise in the
                                                              Economy
           rate of economic growth

    (C) lncrease in the dependency                 65. The NlTl Aayog was established
                                                        reptacing the Planning Commission
           ratio
                                                        on:
    (D) Work Participation rate of
                                                        (A) March 1,2017
           womenonly
                                                        (B) November8,2016
63. Which Five Year Plan in lndia                       (C) July 1 ,2015
    for the first time emphasised                       (D) January 1,2015
    sustained groMh of Software and
                                               66.     Structunal transformation of the ndian
                                                                                       !



    lnformation Technology (!T) enabled
                                                       economy due to the sectoral
    services ?
                                                       changes- in National lncome is :

    (A) Ninth FiveYearPlan                              (A) lnclusiveGrowth
    (B) Tenth FiveYear Plan                             (B) Equitable Growth
    (C) Eleventh FiveYear Plan                          (C) Services-ledGrowth
    (D) TwelfthFiveYearPlan                             (D) Sustainable Growth

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67. Who is the author of the book                      (B) 2oo5
     'Planned Economy for tndia' ?                     (c) 1e56
     (A) M. Visvesvaraya                               (D) 1ee1
     (B) D. R. Gadgil
                                                  71. Which lndustrial Policy abolished
     (C) P. C. Mahalanobis
                                                       industriallicensing ?
     (D) DadabhaiNaoroji
                                                       (A) 1e48
68. Which of the foltowing is a Kharif                 (B) .1e56
     Crop ?
                                                       (c) 1e80
     (A) Rice
                                                       (D) 1ee1
     (B) Wheat
                                                  72. Which of the following is a type of
     (C) Gram
                                                       foreign collaboration in lndia ?
     (D) Mustard
                                                       (A) Joint participation between
69. Rural tnfrastructure Development
                                                            indigeneous firms and foreign
     Fund (RIDF) is a product of :
                                                            govemments
     (A) RBI
                                                       (B) Joint'participation between
     (B) NABARD
                                                            foreign firms and lndian
     (c) sEBl                                               Government
     (D) UTl
                                                       (C) Joint participation between
70. Special EconomicZones(SEZs)Act                          foreign PSUs and lndian PSUs

    was passed in the year:
                                                       (D) Joint participation between
     (A) 2000                                               foreign MNCs and lndian PSUs

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73. To lower interest rates the RBI             76. The newprogramme launched since

    should                                            2008-09 by merging two earlier
                                                      programmes PMRYand REGP is:
    (A) Buy Securities
                                                      (A) SGSY
    (B) Decrease the money supply
                                                      (B) MGNREGS
    (C) RaisetheTreasuryBill rate
                                                      (c) PMEGP
    (D) Raise the reserve requirement
                                                      (D) SJSRY
74. With which the Call Money market            77.   'World Economic Outlook Report' is
    deals ?                                           published by:

    (A) Long term funds                               (A) rMF
    (B) Veryshortterm funds                           (B) World Bank
    (C) Selling and buying of equities                (c) wro
    (D) Selling and buying of                         (D) ADB

            Govemment securities                78.   The United Nations reframed
                                                      8 Millennium Development Goals
75. Who has advocated 'Providing
                                                      (MDGs) for the period 2000-2015
    Urban Amenities in Rural Areas'
                                                      into 17 corresponding SustainabLe
    (PUR{) for alleviating poverty in
                                                      Development Goals(SDGs) for the
     lndia ?                                          period:

     (A) A. P. J.AbdulKalam                           (A) 2015-2025
     (B) Amartya Sen                                  (B) 2015-2035
     (C) B. S. Minhas                                 (c) 201s-2050
     (D) Nilakanth Rath                               (D) 2015-2030

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79. Thefemale literacy rate in Odisha as                     (C) f(x) has no maximum and no
     per 2011 Census is :                                          minimum

     (A) 81.6%                                               (D) Maxf(x) < minf(x)
     (B) 72.9o/o
                                                       82.   lf x = 25 - 3p - p2 be a demand
     (C) 64.00/o
                                                             function, then the point elasticity of
     (D) 68.3%
                                                             demandatp-3is
80. Which of the following is not an
                                                                 27
                                                             (A) 7
     objective of the Odisha MSME
                                                                 27
     Development Policy, 201 5 ?                             (B) T
     (A) To provide conducive eco-
                                                             (c) 288
            system to attract new industries

     (B) To enhance competitiveness of                       (D) 26s
            MSME sector
                                                       83. Using .lntegration, the area of the
     (C) To develop world class
                                                             region bounded between the lines
            lnfrastructure
                                                             x=2andx= 1 underthecurve y=*
     (D) To provide opportunities to
                                                             is:
            local entrepreneurial talents

                                                             (A) ;I sQ. units
81. Letf(x) =x+x-1 then       :


                                                                   7
     (A) f(x) has a maximum but no                           (B)
                                                                   5
                                                                       sQ. units


            minimum                                                5
                                                             (c)          units
                                                                   7sq
     (B) f(x) has no maximum but a
            minimum
                                                             (D) 11s tq units
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84. The demand and costfunctions of a                 AZ. The arithmetic mean of Series A is
     monopolist are given by P = 20 -Sx                    twice that of Series B and the
     and C = 10x + 2. The maximum profit
                                                           standard deviation of Series B is
     IS
                                                           twice that of SeriesA. The coefficient
     (A) 02
                                                           of variation of Series A in relation to
     (B)   05
                                                           that of series B will be :
     (c) 10
                                                                  1
                                                           (A)
     (D) 08                                                      4

                                                                  1
85. What is the area bounded by x = eY,                    (B)
                                                                 2
     x=0,y=0andy=1?
                                                           (c) Same
     (A) e sq. unit
                                                           (D) Twice
     (B) (1 - e) sq. unit
                                                      88. ln a certain distribution, the results
     (C) (e - 1) sq. unit
                                                           were obtained as X = 45,
     (D) (.2 - t)sq. unit
                                                           Median = 48 and Coefficient of
86. lf the value of the objective function Z
                                                           skewness = - 0.3. What is the value
     can be increased or decreased
                                                           of Standard Deviation ?
     indefinitely, such solution is called
                                                           (A) 20
     (A) Bounded Solution
                                                           (B)   25
      (B) Unbounded Solution
      (C) Solution                                         (c)   28


      (D) lnfeasibleSolution                               (D)   30


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89. The standard deviation of natural               92. Which of the following is not correct
     numbers 1 to 10 will be                             relating to RegressionAnalysis ?


     approximately equal to :                            (A) Regression studies the nature
                                                              of relationship between two
     (A) 1.78
                                                              variables X and Y.
     (B) 2.68
                                                         (B) Obtaining the regression line of
     (c) 2.87
                                                              Y on X by the line of best fit
     (D) 1.64
                                                              Yc =a+bx.
90. lfthedistribution ispositivelyskewed                 (C) Thetworegressioncoefficients
     then                                                     bryyx
                                                                 and b are svmmetric.

     (A) Mode > Median > Mean                            (D) When there is either perfect
                                                              positive or perfect negative
     (B) Mean > Median > Mode
                                                              correlation between two
     (C) Mean < Mode < Median
                                                              variables (r = tl), the two
     (D) Median < Mode < Mean
                                                              regression lines will coincide.

91. lf the two regression coefficients
                                                    93. lf P(A) = 0.3 and P(B) = 0.5 then
                     yx = -
      xy - 0.5 and [.^.
     b.^. =                 1.5 then the
                                                         P(Au B) whenAand B are rnutually
     correlation coefficient'r' would be :               exclusive woutd be :

     (A) + 0.78                                          (A) 0.3
     (B) + 0.86                                          (B) 0.5
     (c) - 0.86                                          (c) 0.4
     (D) - 0.e8                                          (D) 0.8

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94. One card is drawn from a standard                          (B) Bias due to the faulty collection
     pack of 52 cards. What is the                                  methods

     probability that it is either a king or                   (C) Bias due to the wrong
     a queen ?                                                      analysis


     (A)
            1                                                  (D) Errors in.data processing
           13
                                                                    operations
            1
     (B)
           52
                                                       97   . Which of the following formula is used
            2
     (c)                                                      to test the significance of the mean
           13

            1
                                                              of a random sample given the
     (D)
           4                                                  population mean ?

95   The sampling method adopted when
                                                              (A)
                                                                    .
                                                                    I=-X
                                                                           Xr-Xz     Ilt IIZ
                                                                               S    n1+n2
     units of the population are numerically,

     geographically or alphabetically                         (B)
                                                                     . X-pG
                                                                     l=-
                                                                               S

     arranged is called as :
                                                              (c)    . a"fi
                                                                     L_
                                                                           S
     (A) Simple Random Sampling
                                                                               r
                                                                    t-
     (B) SystematicSampling                                   (D)
                                                                           W *Jn-2.
     (C) Quota Sampling                                98. lf we accept a Null hypothesis (Ho)
     (D) Multi-StageSampling                                  when it is false, we make:


96. Which of the following is Non-                             (A) Type-lError

     Sampling error ?                                         (B) Type-llError
     (A) Bias in the process of sample                         (C) Standard Error
           selection                                           (D) Probable Error

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99. Which of the following is not a              100. ln lntervalEstimation of a population

                                                      parameterwhen L < 0 < U, 0 is an
    property of good estimator ?
                                                      estimator then L and U are called :
     (A) Representative
                                                      (A) Lower limit and Upper limit
     (B) Consistency
                                                      (B) Levels of Significance
     (C) Efficiency                                   (C) Confidence limits
     (D) Sufficiency                                  (D) Error limits


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