Explanation

(a)(i) Balance of trade; is the relationship between visible exports and imports in a trading year. A favourable balance of trade arises when exports of visible items exceeds imports of visible items. On the other hand, if the visible imports exceed the visible exports, that country is said to have unfavourable balance of trade.

(ii) Balance of payments; is the relationship between all imports and exports of visible and invisible nature. The balance of payments of a country shows her yearly statement of income and expenditure from visible and invisible exports respectively. Balance of payment is divided into current and capital accounts. It can be favourable or adverse.

(b) Ways by which an adverse balance of payments may be corrected are;

(i) Devaluation of local currency that will reduce the value of a country's export and make imports expensive.

(ii) Reduction of government's expenditures.

(iii) Reduction of imports.

(iv) Establishment of import substitution industries.

(v) Control of foreign exchange that will limit imports.

Explanation

The novel is an adventure story. It is the account of the experiences of some English boys on an uninhabited island. They are marooned on the island through a plane crash. The boys are excited when they first appear on the island. In their innocence, they are enchanted with the prospect of having "fun and games". All by themselves, the boys are far way from the prying eyes of adults who would have their movement controlled. They glamour of this affects the boys. They organized themselves under a leader who is Ralph. They form a hunting group headed by Jack. For their own rescue and security they attempt to keep a fire going. As the sole occupants, they assume that the island belongs to them,. They explore their new surrounding, have fun and play at being hunters.

Soon, however, their game degenerates dangerously. Simon is mistaken for an imaginary beast of which they are all afraid and he is killed. This follows the killing of a pig by the hunters. They impale the head of the pig on a stake as sacrifice for the beast. Not long after this, the accidental killing of Simon matures into deliberate murder of piggy who has lost his spectacles. The game of hunters continues and becomes quite deadly. By the use of the conch, a semblance of authoritative behaviour is put in place. Without the conch one had no authority to speak to the group. This search for order does not last. The animal in the boys surfaces with the conflict between Jack and Ralph heightening. Things nearly get out of hand. Ralph becomes the underdog and is chased by the others led by jack. He turns for dear life but it is clear that he cannot escape a cruel end.

The first experiment in which a stone is thrown soon leads to willful destruction of life by the boys. But for the arrival of the naval officer, the paradise atmosphere portrayed at the beginning will have become more tragic than the boys have expected. The boys' adventure ends with the arrival of adults from the Navy. The arrival of the sailors is Ralph's salvation. It is also the means by which all the savaged comes to an end and the boys return to civilization.

Correct Answer: A. helplessness

Correct Answer: A. x = 1, y = -2

Explanation

3x - 2y = 7; Solve by elimination method

x + 2y = -3

3x - 2y = 7.....(i)

-3x + 6y = -9.....(ii)

-8y = 16

y = \(\frac{16}{-8} = -2\)

Put y = -2 into equation (i); 3x - 2y = 7

3x - 2(-2) = 7

3x + 4 = 7

3x = 7 - 4

3x = 3

x = \(\frac{3}{3}\) = 1

Correct Answer: A. are released by burning and lost as gases

Correct Answer: B. preparing the ground through the Qadiriyyah Brotherhood

Explanation

He started an Islamic revival in the Niger bend and Masina thus preaching the tenets of the Quadriyyah Brotherhood which later formed the basis for the launching of Seku Ahmadu

Correct Answer: C. cassava

Correct Answer: D) 8

Explanation

a.

i. Primary product is a type of product that is obtained from nature and forms the basis of the production of secondary products while a secondary product is a product that has undergone processing

ii. Market facilitator is an individual or company that enhances the operations of the business of other people but does not participate in the business while market union is a group of sellers of common product in the local market place.

b.

(i)Warehousing companies

(ii) banks

(iii) Advertising agencies

(iv) marketing research development agencies

(v) Insurance companies

(vi) Communication companies etc.

Functions of Facilitators:

Transportation companies:

• They enhance the distribution of goods from factories to the customers of marketers
• They enable goods to be imported and exported globally by marketers
• They enhance the conveying of of marketers marketers and their goods from one place to another

Banks:

• They collect deposits from marketers and their customers for safe keeping
• They grant credit facilities such as - loans and overdraft to marketers
• They act as agents to marketers through the provision of standing orders and status enquiry to third parties
• They offer foreign exchange services to marketers
• They grant credit facilities such as loans and overdraft to marketers
• They make automated tellers enquiry to third parties

Communication companies;

• They enhances the speedy deliveries of orders from customers' to marketers
• They provide an avenue for products promotion through the internet, SMS and other types of advertising media
• They aid in bringing to the attention of customers any improvement made on marketers products.

Explanation

Members of this elite group are a bunch of Africans struggling between two cultures, neither of which they are appreciably integrated into. The club is a motley assemblage of semi-literates and university graduates who choose to adopt, hook, line and sinker, a number of English ways of life at the expense of their own authentic cultural values. The speech delivered by their secretary during the ill-conceived Okadu-Tsiba wedding ceremony sums up all that is ludicrous in their comportment.

The speech urges those aspiring to be gentlemen to abhor all that is African: food, drinks and the use of the mother tongue, a mention a few. To them, the ostentatious use of high falutin words and heavily loaded expressions shows a mastery of the English language. Thus Mr. Nku's speech is ludicrously laced with such jaw-breaking words as Iachrimosity instead of tears, celibacy instead of bachelor and hymeneal altar instead of 'wedding'.

The expression black skin white masks fittingly captures the comportment of the cosmopolitan club members. The sharp contradictions in their blindly adopted ways of life expose their ludicrous position between the two cultures.