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A missile weighing 400N on the earth surface is shot into the atmosphere to an altitude of 6.4 x \(10^{-6}\)m. Taking the earth as a sphere of radius 6.4 x \(10^{-6}\)m and assuming the inverse-square law of universal gravitation, what would be the weight of the missile at that altitude?
- A. 100N
- B. 200N
- C. 400N
- D. 800N
Adaptive features of plants to desert conditions include
- A. thick barks, succulent stems and sunken stomata
- B. thin barks, succulent stems and sunken stomata
- C. thin barks, air floats on stems and sunken stomata
- D. air spaces in tissues, adventitious roots and thick barks
The macro-environmental forces and trends which are a constraint on business operations are referred to as
- A. internal factors
- B. technological factors
- C. economic factors
- D. external factors
An example fossil fuel is
- A. granite
- B. coal
- C. clay
- D. standtone
The correct increasing order of size for the cell components responsible for heredity is
- A. chromosome → DNA → nucleus → gene
- B. DNA → gene → chromosome → nucleus
- C. chromosome → nucleus → DNA → gene
- D. DNA → gene → nucleus → chromosome
(a)(i) State two differences betwecii the properties of solids and gases
(ii) What process does each of X, Y and Z represent in the changes shown below?
(b)(i) State Charles' Law (ii) Draw a sketch to graphically illustrate Charles' Law.
(c) 60 cm of hydrogen diffused through a porous membrane in 10 minutes. The same volume of a gas G diffused through the same membrane in 37.4 minutes. Determine the relative molecular mass of G. [ H = I ]
(d)(i) State two assumptions X of the kinetic theory.
(ii) Consider the reaction represented by the Solid of Liquid following equation:
H\(_{2(g)}\) + Cl\(_{2(g)}\) \(\to\) 2HCI\(_{(g)}\)
Use the kinetic theory to explain how the rate of formation of HCI\(_{(g)}\) would be affected by I. increase in temperature; II. decrease in pressure.
(e) Given different examples, mention one metal in each case vihich produces hydrogen on reacting with (i) dilute mineral acid; (ii) cold water; (iii) steam; (iv) hot, concentrated alkali.
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Paul argued that Jesus died for us while we were yet sinners in order to
- A. prove that he was not an ordinary man
- B. show God's love for sinful man
- C. warn us to desist from sin
- D. give us power to possess the earth
This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s
- A. contempt and admiration
- B. hatred and pity
- C. contempt and disregard
- D. disregard and pity
Explain the social responsibilities of a business to the following: (a) the community (b) the employee (c) the shareholders (d) the government (e) the consumers.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1996 THEORYThe poet needs to be up at night,when the world
sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders
forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where
the underside of our dreams fester.
Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is
- A. suffering from insomnia
- B. one of the numerous living in poverty
- C. not an ordinary individual
- D. a difficult individual

