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1.2 Resource allocation

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Question 12

A student has sorted four activities by sector of production and by type of output. Their answers are shown in Table 1.

RowActivitySectorOutput type
AA trawler catches cod in the North SeaPrimaryGood
BA firm builds new housesTertiaryGood
CA salon cuts and styles a customer's hairTertiaryGood
DA steelworks rolls steel into sheetsPrimaryService

Which activity has the student placed in the correct sector but given the wrong output type?

[1]
A

A salon cuts and styles a customer's hair

B

A steelworks rolls steel into sheets

C

A firm builds new houses

D

A trawler catches cod in the North Sea

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1.2 Resource allocation Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Economics
  3. /1.2 Resource allocation

84 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Economics 1.2 Resource allocation, covering 1.2.1a Markets, 1.2.1b Allocation of resources, 1.2.1c Factor and product markets, 1.2.2a Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, 1.2.2b Goods and services, 1.2.3a Specialisation and the division of labour, 1.2.3b How and why producers specialise, and 1.2.3c Costs and benefits of the division of labour. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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