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AQA MERGED QUESTION PAPER AND MARK SCHEME ECONOMICS PAPER 1-7135/1 FOR MAY 2024
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AQA MERGED QUESTION PAPER AND MARK SCHEME ECONOMICS PAPER 1-7135/1 FOR MAY 2024
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ASECONOMICS
Paper 1 The Operation of Markets and Market Failure
Monday 13 May 2024 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
For Examiner’s Use
Section Mark
A
B
TOTAL
7135/1
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Section A box
Answer all questions in this section.
Only one answer per question is allowed.
For each question completely fill in the circle alongside the appropriate answer.
CORRECT METHOD WRONG METHODS
If you want to change your answer you must cross out your original answer as shown.
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0 1 Which one of the following is a function of prices in a market economy?
[1 mark]
A Allocating resources to the production of public goods
B Ensuring that the distribution of goods and services is fair
C Incentivising firms to produce the goods consumers want
D Providing a measurement of positive and negative externalities
0 2 Which one of the following is a normative statement?
The price of petrol
[1 mark]
A fell in real terms last year.
B is affected by supply.
C is now too high.
D will rise next year.
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outside the
0 3 Figure 1 shows the demand curve for Economics textbooks. box
Figure 1
Which one of the following could have caused the movement along the demand curve from
L to M?
[1 mark]
A A fall in the number of people studying Economics
B A fall in the price of Economics textbooks
C An increase in consumer incomes
D An increase in the price of paper
0 4 Partial market failure occurs when
[1 mark]
A prices fall causing firms to make losses.
B there are no positive externalities in consumption.
C there is a missing market for the product.
D there is immobility of factors of production.
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0 5 The price of carrots falls from 60p to 54p per kilo. As a result of this fall in price, the box
quantity supplied falls by a quarter.
What is the price elasticity of supply?
[1 mark]
A 0.25
B 0.4
C 2.5
D 4
0 6 In a perfectly competitive market, a firm is most likely to
[1 mark]
A charge the same price as other firms.
B earn large profits in the long run.
C produce the same output as its competitors.
D spend large amounts of money on advertising.
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