(a) Explain five advantages of large scale retailing

(b) State five characteristics of each of the following:

(i) Department Stores

(ii) Supermarkets.

The act of making necessary adjustment after comparing the actual cost with targeted cost is cost ----------------------------

• A. conversion
• B. control
• C. allocation
• D. analysis

The book of account in which information from the source documents are recorded consists of

• A. debit and credit notes
• B. ledger and subsidiary books
• C. prepayments and accruals
• D. profit and loss and balance sheet

A river that enters the sea at a gently inclined coastal plain where tidal waves are weak will most likely develop into a?

• A. delta
• B. knickpoint
• C. lagoon
• D. marine platform

The passage below has gaps. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

PASSAGE IV

With the most profound respect to the members of the Senate, I do not think that it is within the competence of that ...1... body to pass a motion to ...2... the executive action of the President. The Senate is ...3... of the National Assembly. But it is not by itself alone the National Assembly. One can imagine the confusion, which would be created if the ...4... were to take a view diametrically opposed to that reflected in the Senate resolution. The strongest objection to the action of the Senate in passing the resolution is the fact that it constituted itself the ...5... as well as the judge of the constitutionality of the action of the President. The function of the Senate is to ...6... laws. But the Senate has no authority or ...7... to control the President in the exercise of his ...8... powers. It cannot by a mere resolution or motion give any directive to the President regarding the exercise of his powers nor can it undo what the President has done in the exercise of those powers. The only way in which the exercise of the powers of the President can be ...9... is by ...10... of the National Assembly.

Adapted from The Guardian of July 8, 1999, p. 8.

• A. a Decree
• B. bill
• C. an Act
• D. a motion

Define upper fixed point and lower fixed point as used in thermometry

(b) The electrical resistances of the element in a platinum restistance thermometer at 100\(^o\)C, 0\(^o\) and room temperature are 75.000, 63.000 and 64.992 \(\Omega\) respectively. Use these data to determine the room temperature.

(c) (i) State Boyle's law

(ii) A uniform capillary tube, closed at one end contained dry air trapped by a thread of mecury 8.5 x 10\(^{-2}\)m long. When the tube was held horinzontally, the length of the air column was 5.0 x 10\(^{-2}\)m, when it was held vertically with the closed end downwards, the length was 4.5 x 10\(^{-2}\)m, Determine the value of the atmospheric pressure. [g = 10ms\(^{-2}\), density of mecury = 1.36 x 10\(^4\) kg m\(^{-3}\)]

James enjoins believers who lack wisdom to____________

• A. Sow seeds
• B. Ask Elders
• C. Fast and Pray
• D. Ask in Faith

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes each of the following sentences.

What a ________! the more you look, the less you see

• A. wonder
• B. miracle
• C. challenge
• D. paradox

Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits

Your ears are like the fans used for blowing fire.

The lines above are a good example of_________

• A. caricature
• B. ridicule
• C. satire
• D. lampoon

The movement and direction of ocean currents are affected by the

• A. rate of evaporation of sea water
• B. rotation of the earth
• C. volume of ocean water
• D. relief of the ocean bed