Answer:
Business is an organization where goods and services are exchanged for one another or for money to make a profit, every business needs some form of investment and enough customers to sell product to.
the major characteristics are:
1. Exchange of goods and services
2. Deals in numerous transactions
3. Profit is the main objective
4. Business skills for economic success
5. risks and uncertainties
6. marketing and Distribution of goods
7. Sale to satisfy human wants
Explanation:
Answer: Option E
Explanation: In a free market system the prices of goods and services produced are determined by the market forces of demand and supply. This are also known as open market.
The intervention of govt. in regulating such markets is very minimal. Thus, the control in such markets stands in hands of private owners. Therefore, the private owners produce with the single aim of profit maximization in such economies.
Hence we can conclude that the right option is E.
Answer:
PPF : Downward Sloping Straight Line
Explanation:
PPF is the locus of product combinations that an economy can produce, given resources & technology.
It is downward sloping : Because of inverse relationship between two goods- if one has to be increased other has to be decreased , because of same resources & technology.
Marginal Opportunity Cost (Slope of PPC): is ratio of a good sacrifised to gain each additional unit of the other good.
∆ Good sacrifised / ∆ Good gained
If this ratio is same i.e constant amount of a good is sacrifised to gain an additional amount of the other one , the slope of PPC is constant & it is a straight line
Eg : Good1 Good2 MOC [∆Good2/∆Good1]
0 20 _
10 10 -10/10 = -1 (10-20)/(10-0)
20 0 -10/10 = -1 (0-10)(/20-10)
So , same (1) good 2 is sacrifised to attain a good 1 each time.
However Generally: MOC is increasing , because of assumption that resources are unequally efficient in various goods production - shifting good from efficient to inefficient increases sacrifise each time. This makes PPC usually concave.
