Correct Answer: B. 39.0

Explanation

(a) A market is a place where goods and services are exchanged. It is an avenue for buying and selling.

(b) Market important to the economy in the following ways:

(i) Marketing bridges the gap between the producer and the consumer.

(ii) It also reduces wastages through marketing research thus indirectly increasing production. ( Marketing converts peoples' needs into profitable company opportunities, through the movement of industrial good to rural consumers by promotion and consumer education.

(iv) Marketing is a creative employer because all try numerous activities performed therein are possible employment avenues.

(v) The exercise improves the standard living by making goods produced in one area available in another area.

(vi) Marketing creates market for goods are services.

(vii) It assists in the transfers of goods from the producer to the consumers.

(viii) Marketing informs th consumers about the availability of goods and services.

(ix) It also ensures consumer satisfaction.

(c) The functions of marketing include:

(i) It assists in the exchange of goods and services through buying and selling.

(ii) helps in the storage and warehousing of goods.

(iii) It helps in transportation of goods and services from place to place.

(iv) Marketing assists in the delivery of goods and services.

(v) It helps in the standardization of goods are services.

(vi) Marketing research assists in communication, publications, advertising, sales promotion and publicity.

(vii) Marketing research reduces risk of doing business.

Correct Answer: C. ambiguous matters

Explanation

(a) \(\begin{vmatrix} 5 & 2 & -3 \\ -1 & k & 6 \\ 3 & 9 & (k + 2) \end{vmatrix} = - 207\)

\(5[(k)(k + 2) - 54] - 2[(-1)(k + 2) - 18] - 3[-9 - 3k] = - 207\)

\(5k^{2} + 10k - 270 + 2k + 4 + 36 + 27 + 9k = - 207\)

\(5k^{2} + 21k - 203 + 207 = 0\)

\(5k^{2} + 21k + 4 = 0\)

\(5k^{2} + 20k + k + 4 = 0\)

\(5k(k + 4) + 1(k + 4) = 0\)

\((5k + 1)(k + 4) = 0\)

\(k = -\frac{1}{5}; k = -4\)

(b) Equation of curve:

\(x(y^{2} + 1) - y(x^{2} + 1) + 4 = 0\)

(i) Differentiating, we have

\(x(2y\frac{\mathrm d y}{\mathrm d x}) + y^{2} + 1 - y(2x) - (x^{2} + 1)\frac{\mathrm d y}{\mathrm d x} = 0\)

\(\frac{\mathrm d y}{\mathrm d x}(2xy) - \frac{\mathrm d y}{\mathrm d x}(x^{2} + 1) + y^{2} + 1 - 2xy = 0\)

\(\frac{\mathrm d y}{\mathrm d x}(2xy - x^{2} - 1) = 2xy - y^{2} - 1\)

The gradient of the curve at (x, y)

\(\frac{\mathrm d y}{\mathrm d x} = \frac{2xy - y^{2} - 1}{2xy - x^{2} - 1}\)

(ii) Gradient of the tangent at (-1, -3) is

\(\frac{\mathrm d y}{\mathrm d x} = \frac{2(-1)(-3) - (-3)^{2} - 1}{2(-1)(-3) - (-1)^{2} - 1}\)

\(\frac{\mathrm d y}{\mathrm d x} = \frac{-4}{4} = -1\)

Equation : \(\frac{y - (-3)}{x - (-1)} = -1\)

\(y + 3 = - x - 1\)

\(y = - x -4\)

Correct Answer: C. contradicted one's obligation to parents

Explanation

The tradition of Corban was condemned by Jesus because it contradicted one's obligation to parents. The term Corban referred to a practice where someone dedicated their property or resources to God, declaring it as an offering, and thus, exempting themselves from using it for the support of their parents. Jesus criticized this tradition, emphasizing the importance of honouring one's parents and fulfilling one's responsibilities toward them. This is mentioned in Mark 7:9-13 and Matthew 15:3-9.

Correct Answer: C. America is a place where people like to visit

Correct Answer: B) sulphate or a sulphonate group

Correct Answer: A. GABA

Explanation

The correct answer is GABA. GABA is the primary inhibitor used to lower the activity of cells in the human central nervous system. Glutamate, serotonin, and dopamine usually increase the activity of cells, and acetylcholine can increase or decrease cell activity depending on what cell receptor is interacting with the acetylcholine.

Explanation

(a) (i) Explanation of the term "farm credit":

Farm credit is money, service or other forms of capital granted to farmers in trust to be repaid at a future date, usually with interest. OR Farm credit is a repayable loan, either in cash or kind, given out by banks or other organizations and individuals to farmers to improve farming operations.

(ii) Sources of farm credit

- Agricultural banks

- Commercial banks

- Co-operative societies

- Money lenders

- Individuals

- Savings and thrift society

- Self financing

- Middlemen

- Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

- Marketing Boards

- Relatives/family sources

- Government/Governmental Agencies

- Leasing

- Hire Purchase

- Insurance

- Shares / stock market

- Debentures

- Bonds

- Mortgage

- Loan stock

(b)(i) The main extension teaching methods that could be used to create awareness among the farmers Individual method, Group method, Mass method

(ii) The most appropriate extension teaching method for creating awareness about the disease outbreak is:

-Mass method

(iii) Reasons for the choice of the extension teaching method (Mass method

- A very large number of farmers are reached at the same time

-It is the fastest way of alerting and educating farmers about the disease

- It is cost effective in terms of resources

- It gives quicker and more effective results

(iv) Problems likely to be encountered in the selected mass method

-There is no immediate feedback mechanism for the extension worker to evaluate effectiveness of the message

- Farmers are unable to ask questions for clarification

-Since farmers have varying language backgrounds, P. some of them may not understand the extension message

- Power outage may prevent the spread of the message when using electronic mass media

- Not all farmers have TV or radio sets

-Some farmers cannot afford to buy papers if print media is used

-Some farmers cannot read newspapers

- Information in the print media may delay in getting to the rural areas

Explanation

The effectiveness of Houseman's use of imagery in "To an Athlete Dying Young". Houseman uses imagery very effectively to express his major themes in the poem. The most important themes are mutability, pessimism and doomed youth. The poem is elegiac and focuses on the supposed achievement of the dead youth rather than on any loss which his death may have brought.

Many of Houseman's images in the poem express the transience of life on earth. There is a preponderance of metaphors which focus on this. The world becomes "fields where glory does not stay" from which the dead youth has departed untimely. The world is a place where "early though the laurel grows / it withers quicker than the rose". The suggestion is that in our world, fame does not last, that in fact it fades ("the laurel") even more quickly than beauty ("the rose") does.

Houseman throws up the athlete's image as a celebrated compatriot, champion and a man of the people. He was always celebrated as a hero any time he won sports honours and laurel. Both the old and the young always mounted informal guards of honour on roadsides to cheer him and carried him shoulder — high round the town. Upon his death, the whole town including his sportsmen never abandoned him. His corpse was equally taken round mournfully.

Several metaphors also express the theme of pessimism. Death, destitution and suffering are seen as inevitable in this world. Thus, Houseman suggests that the dead youth has gained rather than lost in his fate. He has been transported from a world in which youths are doomed to suffer. He "will not swell the rout/of lads that wore their hours out". This metaphor suggests the inevitability of desolation, frustration and disillusionment. So also does the metaphor "Runners whom renown outran". Rather than settle for a life of disillusionment in this world, the youth has gone to his grave early in his life.

Houseman paints an image of the athlete as a dear soul to his people, even in death, judging from the befitting burial given him. The athlete is portrayed as a man full of untapped resources right to his grave.

Death might be welcome to provide escape from the vicissitudes of life, but Houseman's images create an atmosphere of fatalism and a mood of resignation. He uses somber images to relate to death. The grave is a "stiller town", death is a "shady night", the youth is being laid to rest "on the sill of shade" and the dead are "strength less".