Past Questions And Answers
The population of country X in 1990 was 35 million. The births were 450,000 while it recorded 210,000 death. If in the year, its immigrants were 20,000 and 10,000 of its citizen left the country, calculate the total population of the country at the end of 1990.
- A. 24,250,000
- B. 25,350,000
- C. 34,750,000
- D. 35,250,000
lines of longitude can be best be described as
- A. imaginary line on the earth
- B. the distance of a place east or west of Greenwich meridian
- C. the angular distance of a place north or south of the equator
- D. great circles number from 0 to 90
The safe keeping of goods produced until they are needed is?
- A. hoarding
- B. marking
- C. packaging
- D. warehousing
X is a point due east of point Y on a coast: Z is another point on the coast but 6√3km due south of y.
If the distance XZ is 12Km. Calculate the bearing of Z from X
- A. 240o
- B. 210o
- C. 150o
- D. 60o
The process of mating in sheep is termed
- A. treading
- B. courting
- C. tupping
- D. servicing
Which of the following statements defines plasmolysis?
- A. Shrinking of a plant cell in a solution
- B. Shrinking away of cytoplasm from an animal cell membrane
- C. Shrinking away of the cytoplasm from the plant cell wall
- D. shrinking of the vacuole and leaving the cytoplasm attached to the cell wall
The hydrolysis of groundnut oil by potassium hydroxide is known as
- A. hydrogenation
- B. saponification
- C. esteriffication
- D. neutralization
Which set of disease is spread mainly by insect vectors?
- A. Cholera, tenia and gonorrhoea
- B. Poliomyelitis, tuberculosis and syphilis
- C. Cholera, malaria and tuberculosis
- D. Malaria, cholera and river blindness
An inductor of inductance 10H carries a current of 0.2A. Calculate the energy stored in the inductor
- A. 0.1J
- B. 0.2J
- C. 1.0J
- D. 2.0J
After a meal of yam has been digested, the highest concentration of glucose is to be found in the
- A. hepatic artery
- B. pulmonary vein
- C. hepatic portal vein
- D. posterior vena cava

