Past Questions And Answers
In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined and one gap. From the list of words lettered A - D, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentences.
We enjoyreal stories not those that are.........
- A. imaginary
- B. practical
- C. vague
- D. undefined
Factorize 6pq-3rs-3ps+6qr
- A. 3(r - p)(2q + s)
- B. 3(p + r)( 2q - 2q - s)
- C. 3(2q - s)(p + r)
- D. 3(r - p)(s - 2q)
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'Withering, burn, ghost, a scatter, dusty, half-bare
The above combination of words from Kwesi Brew's
'The Dry Season' thematically suggests
- A. destruction
- B. confusion
- C. desolation
- D. death
In natural selection, Darwin proposed that evolution occurred because of the following conditions except
- A. that nature selects those that will survive to reproduce their kind
- B. there is a fierce competition among the offspring
- C. that the weaker offspring are eliminated
- D. food and other needs are abundant
Simplify 52.4 - 5.7 - 3.45 - 1.75
- A. 41.4
- B. 41.5
- C. 42.1
- D. 42.2
which of the following does not increase the population of country
- A. an increase in birth rate
- B. a decrease in death rate
- C. emigration
- D. immigration
which of the following tool of economic analysis is used when data contains more than one category?
- A. Bar charts
- B. component bar charts
- C. Graphs
- D. Symbolical statement
Use the information below to answer question
Trading account for the year ended 31st December 2009
| ? | ? |
| Opening Stock 32,000 | Sales 48,000 |
| Purchases 40,000 | Less Return 2,000 |
| Carriage inwards 1,000 | |
| 41,000 | |
| Less Return 2,000 39,000 | |
| Cost of goods available ?? | |
| Less closing stock 9,000 | |
| Cost of goods sold ?? |
- A. #20,500
- B. #23,000
- C. #28,000
- D. #27,000
(a) A circle is inscribed in a square. If the sum of the perimeter of the square and the circumference of the circle is 100 cm, calculate the radius of the circle. [Take \(\pi = \frac{22}{7}\)].
(b) A rope 60cm long is made to form a rectangle. If the length is 4 times its breadth, calculate, correct to one decimal place, the :
(i) length ; (ii) diagonal of the rectangle.
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Which of these is not true of the insect? The possession of
- A) two pairs of antenna
- B) jointed appendages
- C) exoskeleton
- D) three pairs of leg