The effect of payment of a liability is that it

• A) increases both assets and liabilities
• B) increases assets and decreases liabilities
• C) decreases assets and increases liabilities
• D) decreases both assets and liabilities

Use the dialogue below to answer the question.

Tim: Jim, let's go to the hospital and confirm our HIV status.

Jim: Really? Does my face resemble that of someone with HIV ? After all, I am too poor to engage in illicit sex, drug abuse nor keep numerous partners like you do.

Tim: It is more than what you think, Jim. You suffer other noticeable symptoms which makes me suspicious of your status.

Jim: Okay, just to satisfy your curiosity, let's go.

From the above dialogue, noticeable symptoms Tim must have observed about Jim include the following except

• A. profuse night sweats.
• B. persistent diarrhoea.
• C. increase in appetite
• D. usual fatigue

Divide 500 by half and then add 50. What do you have?

• A. 550
• B. 550.5
• C. 1050
• D. 1050.5

An isoquant lying above to the right of another represents

• A. a higher output level
• B. constant returns to scale
• C. over-capacity utilization
• D. a lower output level

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The most dominant pair of poetic device in Mtshall's 'Nightfall in Soweto 'is

• A. simile and repetition
• B. rhythm and metaphor
• C. metaphor and alliteration
• D. repetition and personification

The table below shows how a company's sales manager spent his 1995 annual salary.

(a) Represent this information on a pie chart.

(b) Find his savings at the end of the year if his annual salary was N60,000.00.

A wire of length 10m is cooled from 50^oC to 10^oC. Calculate the decrease in the length of the wire. [c = 3 x 10^-5K^-1]

• A. 1.8 x 10^-4m
• B. 1.5 x 10^-4m
• C. 1.2 x 10^-2m
• D. 1.8 x 10^-3m

The Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission in Nigeria has the primary responsibility for

• A. maintaining the fiscal supremacy of the central government the fiscal supremacy of the central government
• B. evolving an acceptable wage for public servants
• C. evolving an acceptable revenue-sharing formula
• D. ensuring equity in the sharing of fiscal responsibilities

Simplify \((\sqrt[3]{64a^{3}})^{-1}\)

• A. 4a
• B. 1/8a
• C. 8a
• D. 1/4a

X and Y are two sets such that n(X) = 15, n(Y) = 12 and n{X ∩ Y} = 7. Find ∩{X ∪ Y}

• A. 21
• B. 225
• C. 15
• D. 20