18/09/2019National Primary Common Entrance Exams (Mathematics) 0Comments by Gate Academy Please, fill out the information below to continue. NAME EMAIL PHONE NUMBER 1. Express 3% of 3 m in centimetres. 0.9 cm 90 cm 9 cm 0.09 cm 900 cm2. The diagram below shows the number of students taking at least one of Mathematics, English or Biology.How many students offer English only? 30 5 13 6 113. Express 48.67589 to four places of decimal. 48.67 48.6759 48.68 0.6758 0.67594. Bala does a journey in 6 hours at the rate of 40km an hour. How long will the same journey take him at the rate of 30km an hour? 10 hours 8 hours 12 hours 9 hours5. Arrange the fractions in descending order of magnitude.5/6, 3/8, 7/12, 3/4, 5/16, 2/3 5/6, 3/8, 7/12, 3/4, 5/16, 2/3 5/6, 3/4, 7/12, 2/3, 5/16, 3/8 5/6, 7/12, 2/3, 3/4, 5/16, 3/8 5/16, 3/8, 7/12, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6 5/6, 3/4, 2/3, 7/12, 3/8, 5/166. Zainab's father was 18 years old in 1918.How old was he in 1978? 36 years 78 years 87 years 114 years 96 years7. Evaluate 721 x 20 13520 14420 14520 144200 1452008. The ages of 6 girls in a class are 12 years 3 months, 14 years 6 months, 10 years 8 months, 13 years 3 months, 11 years 2 months and 14 years 2 months. Find their average age 12 years 8 months 13 years 8 months 12 years 4 months 11 years 6 months9. Express 3/8 as a percentage. 37.5% 75% 0.375% 4% 40%10. The ages of 6 girls in a class are 12 years 3 months, 14 years 6 months, 10 years 8 months, 13 years 3 months, 11 years 2 months and 14 years 2 months.Find their average age. 12 years 8 months 11 years 6 months 11 years 4 months 12 years 4 months 13 years 8 months11. By how much is the sum of 14/5 and 9/2 less than 81/10? 3/2 4/5 6/5 3/5 3/412. If one orange costs 6.5 kobo, how many will a trader buy with N10.40? 20 160 16 200 160013. All of these are prime numbers EXCEPT 2, 19, 31, 59 51, 71, 119, 1003, 5, 11, 103, 51 1, 2, 7, 5714. By how much is 16/3 greater than 29/8? 65/24 55/24 41/24 26/24 31/2415. How many three-quarters are there in 60? 40 50 20 80 4516. The diagram below shows the number of students taking at least one of Mathematics, English or Biology.How many students offer Maths only? 30 14 11 6 1017. The perimeter of a rectangle is 32 cm.If the length of the rectangle is 12 cm, find its width. 20 cm 4 cm 10 cm 8 cm 24 cm18. A tank which is 5/8 full contains 50 litres of fuel.How many litres will it hold when full? 800 litres 60 litres 80 litres 64 litres 400 litres19. Find the rate percent if £500 yield £50 simple interest in 5 years. 4% 3% 2% 6% 5%20. Express a speed of 20 m/s in km/hr. 60 km/hr 72 km/hr 100 km/hr 90 km/hr 120 km/hr21. Fifty articles bought at N 5.00 each was sold at N3.00 each. What was the loss made? ₦100.00 ₦50.00 ₦150.00 ₦2.0022. Simplify 24.4 ÷ 0.002 122000 1220 122 12200 12.223. A trader bought 80 goats in Sokoto at N25.00 each. Five died on their way to Ibadan.If he sold the rest at N50.00 each, what was his percentage profit? 100% 50% 75% 15% 87.5%24. A square field has an area of 676 m². Find the length of its side. 36 m 16 m 46 m 56 m 26 m25. If a private car owner buys petrol at 60 kobo per litre. How many litres of petrol will he buy with N28.80? 48 litres 58 litres 208 litres 408 litres26. An athlete placed on a special diet was able to reduce his weight from 68kg to 51kg. Find his percentage reduction in weight 66% 17% 75% 25%27. The average of 14, 16, 13, X and 19 is 16.Find the value of X. 20 18 19 17 2128. A man with a monthly salary of N400 gets a 10% increase. What is his new salary? N500 N410 N420 N440 N155029. Working for 10 hours a day, Toyin completes a hackhathon in 15 days.How long would it take her if she works for 6 hours a day? 25 days 4 days 20 days 40 days 30 days30. What is the simple interest on N1,200.00 loan for 3 years at 4% per annum? N120.00 N100.00 N16.00 N12.00 N144.0031. If today is Monday, what day of the week will it be in 89 days' time? Monday Friday Wednesday Thursday Saturday32. A motor car travelled 90 km in 45 minutes. How many kilometres did it travel in 1 hour? 67.5 km 135 km 120 km 100 km33. A man with a monthly salary of N400.00 gets a 10% increase. What is his new salary? ₦440 ₦1550.00 ₦500.00 ₦420.0034. Find the H.C.F of 56, 70 and 182 7 14 28 2 835. The average age of 3 boys is 12 years. The average age of two of them is 13 years.Find the age of the third boy? 14 years 13 years 12 years 10 years 12.5 years36. Find 12.5% of N400.00. N60.00 N80.00 N50.00 N2.00 N100.0037. How many complete pieces of twine each of length 40 cm can be cut from a coil containing 200 cm? 5 5000 50 50038. Your new question!39. Stephen arrived at the train station at 11 45 am.By this time, he was 35 minutes early for his train.At what time was the train due to leave? 11 35 am 1 20 pm 10 10am 11 10 am 12 20 pm40. What number multiplied by 3 is equal to 138? 414 141 43 404 4641. Simplify:(21/4 ÷ 7/4) / (15/4) 4/5 49/20 5/4 21/20 45/442. Find the number that must be added to 40% of 225 to give 200. 290 90 110 10 19043. How many days old is a baby born on 1st July on 31st of the following December? 184 days 185 days 180 days 182 days 186 days44. If 5 men dug a well in 14 days, how many days will it take 7 men? 10 days 14 days 7 days 7.5 days 2.5 days45. The length of a rectangle is twice its breadth.If the length is 18 cm, what is the perimeter of the rectangle? 54 cm 108 cm 36 cm 27 cm 72 cm46. At an average speed of 80 km/hr, a car will cover 40 km in: 3/4 hour 2 hours 1 hour 1/2 hour 1.5 hours47. The following marks were scored in a Chemistry test by 10 students:62, 84, 12, 25, 60, 72, 80, 0, 50 and 55.What is the range of the marks scored? 0 12 84 59 7248. 160 out of 800 candidates from a state who took the Secondary Entrance Exam were called for interview.What percentage of the candidate were not called for the interview? 85% 40% 64% 80% 20%49. A wall clock makes 40 ticks every 1 minute.How many ticks should it make between 10.15 a.m. and 11.23 a.m.? 2700 2720 320 2400 30050. Simplify:(5/4 + 3/4) ÷ (8/5 + 2/5) 2 4 1 3 551. How many tiles each 36 cm², will cover completely the floor of a room 12 m long and 6m wide? 2000 20,000 20 200 200,00052. What fraction of 1m is 40cm? 4/5 1/250 2/5 1/2553. The following marks were scored in a Chemistry test by 10 students:62, 84, 12, 25, 60, 72, 80, 0, 50 and 55.What is the average mark scored by the students? 39 40 60 50 4954. Simplify:17/3 x 1/4 ÷ 8/5 5/6 32/15 40/3 6/5 1/655. The diagram below shows the number of students in a school taking at least one of Mathematics, English or Biology.How many students offer English and Biology? 10 5 6 11 1356. Nnamdi defrosts his refrigerator regularly every 4 weeks 4 days.How many weeks and days have passed after he had defrosted it ten times? 40 weeks 5 days 45 weeks 5 days 11 weeks 5 days 35 weeks 45 weeks57. Express 50 g as a fraction of 2 kg 1/25 1/50 1/400 2/25 1/4058. If N2.10 is shared equally between seven pupils, how much does each get? N0.70 N0.30 N0.25 N1.70 N13059. If P + 2Q = 40 Find Q when P = 16 12 28 10 20 2460. A salesman goes to the bank to change 40 twenty naira notes to ten kobo coins. How many ten kobo coins should he bring back? 80, 000 8, 000 80 4, 000Thank you for taking this test.
