Past Questions And Answers
The mean age of 15 pupils in a class is 14.2 years. One new pupil joined the class and the mean changed to 14.1 years. Calculate the age of the new pupil.
- A. 12.4 years
- B. 12.6 years
- C. 13.2 years
- D. 14.1 years
The process of dividing task into jobs and departments and of delegating authority is known as?
- A. staffing
- B. leading
- C. directing
- D. organizing
Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Most warring countries end up in a state of satiatic?
- A. hunger
- B. thirst
- C. danger
- D. famine
Subsistence farming is not characterized by
- A. the use of crude farm tools
- B. the use of extended family holdings
- C. low application of fertilizers
- D. low yields
If (-3, -4) is a point on the line y = mx + 2 find the value of m.
- A. -2
- B. \(\frac{7}{4}\)
- C. 2
- D. \(\frac{8}{3}\)
Solve for t in the equation \(\frac{3}{4}\)t + \(\frac{1}{3}\)(21 - t) = 11
- A. \(\frac{9}{13}\)
- B. \(\frac{7}{13}\)
- C. 5
- D. 9\(\frac{3}{5}\)
When school pupils sing the national anthem and salute the flag, they are
- A. performing their obligations as citizens
- B. exercising their rights citizens
- C. practicing to be leaders to tomorrow
- D. carrying out their responsibilities as citizens
For what value of y is the expression \(\frac{y + 2}{y^{2} - 3y - 10}\) undefined?
- A. y = 0
- B. y = 2
- C. y = 3
- D. y = 5
In a regular polygon, each interior angle doubles its corresponding exterior angle. Find the number of sides of the polygon
- A. 8
- B. 6
- C. 4
- D. 3
The crackling noise produced by aluminum roofing sheets on a house during a hot sunny day is a result of
- A. thermal equilibrium of the sheets
- B. conduction of heat by the sheets
- C. contraction of the sheets
- D. expansion of the sheets