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Correct answer: (B) Industrial Plan
The Second Five-Year Plan (1956–61) followed the Mahalanobis model and gave priority to heavy industry, so it is known as the Industrial Plan.
Correct answer: (A) Bowley
“Statistics may rightly be called the science of averages” is Bowley's statement.
Correct answer: (A) ₹50,745
In 2020 Bihar's per capita income was ₹50,745, far below the national average.
Correct answer: (A) 1944
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development—the World Bank—was established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944.
Correct answer: (A) Income and employment theory
Macroeconomics is also called the theory of income and employment, since it studies the income and employment of the economy as a whole.
Correct answer: (C) 332 kWh
In 2019–20 per capita energy consumption in Bihar rose to 332 kWh.
Correct answer: (C) Munger and Bhagalpur
By the 2011 Census the lowest sex ratio in Bihar was recorded in Munger and Bhagalpur.
Correct answer: (A) 5838465
By the 2011 Census the total population of Patna district was 58,38,465.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The Prevention of Money Laundering Act was passed in 2002 and came into force in 2005, so none of the years given is right—the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (A) National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
NREGA stands for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which guarantees a rural household a hundred days of work.
Correct answer: (A) Rural development
TRYSEM, which trains rural youth for self-employment, is a programme of rural development.
Correct answer: (C) 2014
The ‘Make in India’ initiative was launched in 2014, with the aim of making India a manufacturing hub.
Correct answer: (A) Convex
An indifference curve is convex to the origin, because the marginal rate of substitution goes on falling.
Correct answer: (B) Inclusive
When both the lower and the upper limit are included in the class, the class is called inclusive, not exclusive.
Correct answer: (A) 0
In perfectly inelastic demand the quantity does not change when the price does, so the elasticity is zero.
Correct answer: (C) Infinite
In perfectly elastic demand the slightest change in price changes the quantity without limit, so the elasticity is infinite.
Correct answer: (B) Ogive curve
The median is located from the cumulative frequency curve, the ogive—the point where the two ogives cross gives it.
Correct answer: (A) Average Revenue (AR) is greater than Marginal Revenue (MR)
Under monopoly the demand curve slopes down, so average revenue stays above marginal revenue (AR > MR).
Correct answer: (B) Decreases
As investment rises the marginal productivity of capital falls, so the marginal efficiency of capital (MEC) decreases.
Correct answer: (B) Two-dimensional diagram
In a square diagram both the length and the breadth carry meaning, so it is a two-dimensional diagram.