SECTION A INSTRUCTION: Answer all questions in this section. Pick the appropriate answer from the options lettered A to E. 1. Find the L.C.M. of 18, 24 and 36. a 72 b 48 c 42 d 36 e 30 2. What is the value of digit 8 in 18476? a 18 000 b 8 000 c 800 d 80 e 8 3. How many lines of symmetry does an isosceles triangle have? a 0 b 1 c 2 d 3 e 4 4. What number does MDLXXVIII represent? a 578 b 1358 c 1538 d 1578 e 1758 5. What is 16% of 700? a 1.12 b 11.2 c 56 d 112 e 560 6. Subtract 7.0009 from 19.625. Give your answer to 2 decimal places. a 1.26 b 12 c 12.6 d 12.62 e 26.63 Page 1
7. What is the value of 3 4 1 7? a 48 b 72 c 84 d 86 e 96 8. Find the cost of 9 articles if 4 of such articles cost N224.00 a N36.00 b N228.00 c N233.00 d N504.00 e N896.00 9. Express the ratio of 3 tonnes to 750 in its simplest form. a 1:4 b 4:1 c 8:2 d 2:8 e 3:750 10. Arrange in ascending order of magnitude: 101, 1 100, 11 100, 110, 1 111 a 1 111, 110, 11 100, 101, 1 100 b 101, 110, 1 100, 1 111, 11 100 c 11 100, 1 111, 1 100, 110, 101 d 101, 110, 1 111, 1 100, 11 100 e 110, 101, 1 100, 1 111, 11 100 11. Find the simple interest on N500 for 3 years at 7 % per annum. a N112.50 b N105.00 c N50.20 d N27.10 e N15.20 12. If 6 18, what number does represent? a 12 b 18 c 24 d 30 e 36 Page 2
13. Find the value of in the diagram below. 120 110 a 130 b 150 c 180 d 230 e 270 14. Simplify: 3 1 a 1 d 2 b 1 e 4 c 2 15. The proportion of girls to boys in a class is 2:3. If there are 45 pupils in the class, how many boys are there? a 5 b 9 c 21 d 27 e 45 16. An athlete runs 700metres in 20 seconds. Find his average speed. a 20 / b 35 / c 70 / d 140 / e 700 / 17. If 10 and 5, what is the value of a 2 d 5 b 3 e 7 c 3
18. A right angled triangle has one of its interior angles to be 30. Find the difference between the other two interior angles. a 30 b 45 c 60 d 90 e 120 19. Chidi received a book as a gift. He colored from pages 99 to 110. How many pages did he color? a 11 b 12 c 16 d 17 e 18 20. Find the area of a trapezium, if its parallel sides are 11cm and 5cm and the distance between them is 7cm. a 48cm b 52cm c 56cm d 68cm e 720cm 21. Calculate a 1 b 10 c 12 d 100 e 1000 22. A man walks 6 to the East, 5 to the North and then 6 to the West. How far is he from his starting point? a 3 b 5 c 6 d 11 e 17 23. How many three kobo pencils can I buy if I have N1.13? a 9 b 27 c 37 d 38 e 54 Page 4
24. A boy sent a telegram which contains 48 words to his mother. If the first 16 words cost 30 kobo and each additional word costs 3 kobo, how much did he pay altogether? a 144 kobo b 126 kobo c 96 kobo d 48 kobo e 30 kobo 25. A hen lays 5 eggs per week. How many years will it take to lay 520 eggs? a 1 year b 2 years c 3 years d 4 years e 5 years 26. John, who is 15 years old, is 3 years older than his brother, Biodun. Michael, the eldest of the three brothers is 21 years old. What is the average age of the brothers? a 12 years b 15 years c 16 years d 24 years e 48 years 27. How many buckets can fill a water tank 6 long, 5 wide and 4 high, if each bucket can carry 2 cubic meters of water? a 12 b 18 c 24 d 36 e 48 28. A cinema house has 18 rows, each with 15 seats. Another one has 27 rows and the total number of seats is the same. How many seats are there in each row in the second cinema? a 10 b 12 c 15 d 18 e 27 Page 5
29. A circle of diameter 7cm is cut out from a sheet of square paper card of sides 7cm. What is the area of the remaining paper card? 22 7 a 7 b 10.5 c 12 d 24 e 49 30. In a village there are 400 people. of them are women. Given that of the women are traders, how many women are traders? a 400 b 300 c 200 d 150 e 100 31. What is the difference between the greatest 3 digit even number and the smallest 2 digit odd number? a 420 b 689 c 954 d 987 e 998 32. Ayo counted the number of edges of a cube, Seun counted the number of corners and Bunmi counted the number of faces. They then added the three numbers together. What was the resulting sum? a 10 b 12 c 16 d 22 e 26 33. A cyclist travels at an average speed of 24km/h. How far does he travel in 3 hours 20 minutes? a 24km b 72km c 76.8km d 80km e 96km Page 6
34. A bus driver picks 4 people in the first stop. Then at the second stop he picks 3 more people than at the first stop. At the third stop, he picks twice the number picked at the first stop. How many passengers did he pick altogether? a 11 b 15 c 19 d 21 e 25 35. A candle is 15cm long. If 35% of it burns away in an hour, how much of the candle is left after it has been lighted for 84 minutes? a 5.25cm b 7.35cm c 7.65cm d 14cm e 21cm 36. Find the area of the shaded portion in the figure below. 29 20 5 5 5 10 6 a 50 b 75 c 125 d 241 e 271 37. Simplify: 3 a 1 b 1 c d e
38. On the first day of the week, a man did of a job. On the next day, he finished another of the remaining job. What fraction of the job was left untouched? a b c d e 39. A room is 6m long, 5m wide and 4m high. It has two windows and a door which cover an area of 32. The walls of the room are to be painted. What area of the room will be painted? a 24 b 32 c 56 d 48 e 88 40. You are given three numbers. The second is 5 more than the first and the third is double the sum of first two. If the sum of these numbers is 75, find the difference between the biggest and the smallest number. a 6 b 10 c 15 d 40 e 50 Page 8
SECTION B INSTRUCTION: Answer all questions in this section. Write ONLY the answer to each question in this section in the appropriate space provided in the answer sheet. 41. Write in figures: Two Million Twenty one Thousand and Two 42. If a man earns N4 a week and spends N6 every 4 weeks, how much will he save in a year? 43. A grass lawn 30cm by 25cm is surrounded by a straight path of uniform width 2.5cm. Find the area of the path. 44. How many digits are there in a 1.5 million? 45. On a certain bus route, the charge for each adult is 20 and that for each child is 10. On a Friday morning, the conductor collected a total of N66.00. If 120 of the passengers were children, how many of the passengers were adults? 46. Tunde, Peter and Bello went to pick mangoes. Tunde picked 15 mangoes, Bello picked 10 and Peter picked only 5. Bello decided to give Peter two of his mangoes while Tunde gave Peter six of his. Who now has the smallest number of mangoes? Page 9
47. A pyramid standing on a square base is cut horizontally and the upper part is removed. How many faces does the lower part have? 48. State all the prime numbers between 0 and 7. 49. How many right angles are there in 2 revolutions? 50. In another language, sonk clup wita means dead bad enemies and zorn gin clup means enemies hate people and fal wita nomi means see dead animals. What does sonk mean? Page 10
SECTION C INSTRUCTION: Answer all questions in this section. Show all your workings in this section clearly, neatly and orderly. 1. Simplify: 1 1 1 1 5 marks 2. The sides of a right angled triangle are in the ratio 3:4:5. If the perimeter of the triangle is 132 : a What is the length of each side? b Hence, find the area of the triangle 5 marks Page 11