Question

In a tiny village, on the coast of South America, early inhabitants used sea shells, as money. Some of these shells were very beautiful and fragile. Everyone agreed that the shells were valuable and the people utilized them in much the same way we use money today. The fragility of the shells and the fact that a shell is difficult to split into smaller denominations would make these sea shells unfit to act as money today because sea shells could not act as a ________.a. Store of Valueb. Unit of Accountc. Medium of Exchange

Answer 1

Option (B) is correct.

Step-by-step explanation:

Unit of account:

There are some functions of money or we can say that characterstics of money:

(a) Medium of exchange

(b) Store of value

(c) Unit of account

(d) Standard of deferred payments

Sea shells are precious items but one cannot properly split divide those sea shells into small denominations like money does. Money is easily storable, people use as a medium of exchange and unit of account.

By unit of account we mean that we can easily measure the value of goods and service and many things in monetary terms but we cannot measure in terms of sea shells.

That's why sea shells unfit to act as money today.