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ENTRANCE EXAMINATION INTO JS 1 OF 2020/2021 ACADEMIC YEAR

SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2020

TEST SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS TIME ALLOWED: 1 HOUR & 15 MINUTES

DO NOT open this booklet until you are told to do so.

While you are waiting, read the following instructions carefully.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. This test has 45 questions. Answer all.
2. Use HB pencil throughout.
3. Write your Name, Examination Number, Present Grade/Class, Date of Birth and Date of
Examination in the spaces provided below.
4. Do your rough work in any space inside this booklet except the Answer Sheet (Page 10).
5. Write your final answer boldly and clearly in the numbered box corresponding to that
question on the Answer Sheet (Page 10 of this booklet). If you make a mistake or change
your mind about an answer, erase the mistake or wrong answer neatly and completely with
your eraser. Then write the correct answer boldly and clearly.
6. Do not waste time on any question. If you find a question difficult, go to the next question.
When you have finished answering all the questions you find easy, go back and answer the
difficult one(s).
7. Be sure to write your Name and Examination Number on the Answer Sheet (Page 10).

GOOD LUCK!

NAME: __________________________________________________________________________
Surname Other Name(s)

EXAMINATION NUMBER: ______________________

PRESENT GRADE/CLASS: ________________

DATE OF BIRTH: ________________________

Day Month Year

DATE OF EXAMINATION: ___________________

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1. Mr Ofonime makes an average income of one million, eight hundred and seven naira every month.
His wife makes an average income of nine hundred and thirty-six thousand and five naira every
month. Assuming that neither of them spends from the amounts stated above, how much richer
yearly is Mr Adebola than his wife?

2. The table below was completed using a statement of account that a bank sent to a certain customer.
What is the value of 𝒙?

Date Description Credit (N) Debit (N) Balance (N)

1 January Balance 1,660,500.50
26 January Salaries 705,790.00 954,710.50
30 January Advance payment 1,055,565.50 𝒙

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3. A swimming pool containing 4000 litres of water is full. How many litres of water must be
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added to make the pool half-full?

4. The top surface of a circular dining table has a diameter of 98cm. Calculate the surface area of a
𝟐𝟐
circular tablecloth that is just enough to cover it entirely. [Take 𝝅 = 𝟕 ]

5. Find the HCF of 42 × 6 × 72 and 4 × 73 × 73 . Leave your answer in index form.

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6. A sports club has 90 members. 50% of the members prefer football; 20% prefer cricket, and the
rest prefer basketball. Find the number of members who prefer basketball.

7. A trader bought 60 packets of sugar for her shop. The total mass of sugar in the 60 packets is 30kg.
While she was away, her little son carefully took out a cube of sugar from each packet. If the mass
of a cube of sugar is 5g, what is the total mass of sugar left in the packets? Leave your answer in
kg and one decimal place.

8. A porter rented a cart at the rate of N250 a day. He worked with it for six days and made a total
income of N15,000. He then paid the full rental fee of the cart. What percentage of the total
income will he have left?

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9. Ibukunoluwa spent of her holiday in Lagos and the rest elsewhere. While in Lagos, she spent
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half of her time with her grandmother in Ikorodu. What fraction of the holiday did Ibukunoluwa
spend in Ikorodu?

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10. Abiodun plays football for 1 4 hours and watches television for of an hour. He then does his
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homework for 1 hours. Find the total amount of time Abiodun spends doing all the activities
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mentioned above. Approximate your answer to the nearest hour.

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11. A 400g pizza contains, among other things, 12g of sugar, 36g of fat, 4g of salt, 48g of protein and
140g of carbohydrate. What percentage of the pizza is protein?

12. Kemi bought a stick of Pin Pop and a wrap of Tom Tom for a total of N20. Later that same day,
she bought three sticks of Pin Pop and seven wraps of Tom Tom for a total of N80. How much
would Kemi pay in total if she bought two sticks of Pin Pop only?

13. Mr John is 36 years older than his son, David. His age is also eight years more than thrice the age
of David. How old is David?

14. The figure below is a plane shape made by placing a triangle on top of a rectangle. What is the
sum of the angles in the figure?

15. The second of three consecutive even numbers is 𝑏. What is the sum of the three numbers? [Leave
your answer in terms of 𝑏]

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𝑥 𝑥
16. Three girls shared a piece of land. One got of the land. Another got of the land. What
3𝑦 6𝑦
fraction of the land will the third girl get?

17. Samantha withdrew some money from her bank account. She then bought 203 pairs of trousers at
N10,560.00 each, 76 shirts at N8,340.00 each and 49 pairs of shoes at N38,049.00 each. If she
had N9,020.00 left after the shopping, how much money did she withdraw from her account?

18. Three electric bulbs are used to make a flashing game. Bulb A flashes every 15 seconds; bulb B
flashes every 48 seconds, and bulb C flashes every 55 seconds. If the game is started now, how
long will it take before all three bulbs flash at the same time? Leave your answer in minutes.

19. A doctor instructed Christine to take two tablets of Vitamin C every eight hours. If Christine did
not miss any of her medication in the month of January, how many tablets of Vitamin C did she
take that month?

20. Kamsi knows three times as many jokes as Oscar. The two boys know 72 jokes altogether. How
many jokes does Kamsi know?

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21. Find the positive difference between the lowest common multiple (LCM) and the highest common
factor (HCF) of the following numbers: 168 and 216.

22. In the first 1 hour and 30 minutes of a marathon, an athlete covered a distance of 24km. She ran
the next 16km in another hour. If she completed the next (and final) 2km of the race in 30 minutes,
what was her average speed throughout the marathon? Leave your answer in km/h.

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23. One packet of biscuits requires 3 2 cups of flour and 2 2 cups of sugar. How many cups of flour
are required for 250 packets of biscuits?

The pie chart below shows the survey of what influenced 200 students to buy their latest CD. Use the
information provided to answer questions 24 and 25.

24. How many more students were influenced by radio than by a music video channel?

25. How many students altogether were influenced by both live performance and friends/relatives?

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26. The figure below is 3-dimensional. If V = Number of Vertices, E = Number of Edges and
F = Number of Faces, find 𝑉 − 𝐸 + 𝐹.

Find the value of 𝒙 in each of the following equations (Questions 27 and 28):

27. 𝒙2 = 256

28. 252 + 73 = 𝒙 + 144

29. An overhead water storage tank is 5m long, 4m wide and 2m high. If 30m3 of water is poured into
it, how high will the water level be? [Do NOT approximate your answer.]

30. Obinna is 1.5m tall. His brother, Nwachukwu, is 0.85m taller. The height of their sister, Adaobi, is
half the sum of the heights of the two boys. How tall is Adaobi? Leave your answer in metres and
3 decimal places.

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31. 1100 candidates are expected to write the 2020 entrance examination into Jesuit Memorial
College. If all the candidates were to write the examination inside the school’s classrooms, what is
the minimum number of classrooms the school should have? Assume that a classroom in the
school can hold a maximum of 18 candidates.

32. Onyinye has a flask that can hold 2.4 litres of water and a cup that can hold 480cm3 of water. How
many cupful of water can the flask hold? [1 litre = 1000cm3]

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33. Find the value of 𝑥 in the equation: =
𝑥 18

34. Find the area of the shape below.

35. The average height of a family of five persons is 150cm. The heights of four of the persons are as
follows: 150cm, 151cm, 152cm and 153cm. What is the height of the fifth person? [Do NOT
approximate your answer.]

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36. Oghenetega ran 1km 200m every day. What total distance did she cover after running for the
seventh day? Approximate your answer to the nearest kilometre.

37. The figure below is the side-view of a wooden platform with similar stairs. One of the stairs is
8cm long and 4cm high. Calculate the perimeter of the figure.

38. The parallelogram shown below has an area of 294cm2 and one of its sides is 21cm. Find its
perpendicular height.
21cm

39. A farmer has roosters and horses. The animals have a total of 88 feet and 40 wings. How many
horses does the farmer have?

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40. The male and female world record holders in Olympic triple jump are Jonathan Edwards, with a
jump of 18.29m, and Inessa Kravets, with a jump of 15.50m. What is the sum of those distances in
centimetres?

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41. The freight charge of a certain transport company is N40 per kilogramme per kilometre. What will
the company charge for transporting a commercial freezer of mass 200kg for 400km?

42. The shape below is formed from a triangle (ABC) and a trapezium (BCDE). What is the area of
the entire figure?

43. A string of length 90.98cm is cut from a longer string of length 2.52m. What length of the longer
string is left? Leave your answer in metres and 2 decimal places.

44. Find the value of √0.5 ÷ 0.125.

45. The table below is a scale representation of actual distances from Laura’s house to other
locations.

Beach Supermarket School Hospital

Distance from Laura’s house (cm) 2.5 5.0 13.2 12.9
Scale: 1cm : 5km

Based on the information above, what is the actual distance from Laura’s house to her school?
Leave your answer in 1 decimal place and in the proper unit.

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 ANSWER SHEET
NAME: ____________________________________________ EXAMINATION NUMBER: ________
Surname Other Name(s)

DO NO ROUGH WORK ON THIS PAGE.

WRITE YOUR FINAL ANSWER ONLY INSIDE THE BOX PROVIDED BELOW.

Example:
1 2 2 3.0 3 4cm

1 10 19 28 37

2 11 20 29 38

3 12 21 30 39

4 13 22 31 40

5 14 23 32 41

6 15 24 33 42

7 16 25 34 43

8 17 26 35 44

9 18 27 36 45

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