Mathematics — UNILORIN Post UTME Quiz

1. A trader had 19 lanterns in her store, sold 13 and bought 6 more. How many lanterns does she have left in her store?

2. In how many ways can a six applicants for a job arrange themselves
at around the table when they are invited for an interview?

3. During the 2008 POSTJAMB registration exercise which lasted 15 days, the number of candidates on the first day was 2000 but doubled daily in the next 4 days. Thereafter, it was 250 per day till the end. How many candidates registered for the exercise?

4. The combined age of me and my two children is 75. What will it be in five years’ time?

5. Thirty men take 20 days to complete a job working for 9hrs a day, how many hr(s) a day should 40 men to work to complete the job?

6. A labourer is paid N5,400:00kper month. What is his total salary in 1 3/4 years?

7. Look at this series: 7, 10, 8, 11, 9, 12... What number should come next?

8. A retailer sells at a discount of
15% of the marked price, if a customer pays N16, 700.00 for an item, what is the marked price of the item?

9. A factory increased its annual production of radios from 40,000 to 50,000. Calculate the percentage increase in production.

10. In how many ways can a six applicants for a job arrange themselves at a roundtable when they are invited for an interview?

11. In a single throw of a dice, what is the probability of getting a number greater than 4?

12. The sum of an interior angle of
a triangle is equal to -----------

13. The breath and length of a rectangle are L and 2L respectively. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

If his working days are Mondays to
Saturdays?

14. Express 398753 correct to three significant figures

15. If (2x-y) = 4, then (6x-3y) =?

16. Ojo and Ainabought 25 oranges each and gave Audu and Amina 6 and 8 oranges each from both. How many oranges will both of them have
left?

17. Wale and Joke have ratio 6:4 in 80 units of Transcorp’s shares. How many units of these shares belong to Wale?

18. How many squares altogether are there on a normal chessboard?

19. If 15 cans of food are needed for seven adults for two days, the number of cans needed to feed four adults for seven days is?

20. A clock is set at 8 am48 minutes past 12 . The clock gains 10min in 24hrs. What will be
the true time when the clock indicates 1pm on the following day?

21. The number proceeding 9909 which is a perfect square is

22. In a class, there are 50 pupils if 15 of them are girls, what percentage are boys?

23. An early morning jogger jogged to cover a distance of 1.5 kilometers and followed the same route back to where he started. The distance covered will be?

24. If (2x-y) = 4, then (6x-3y) =?

25. Aman is four times as old as his son. The difference between their ages is 36. Find the sum of their ages

26. A hexagonal kite has -----------sides?

27. Ten buses are to carry 20 passengers each. Each passenger is traveling with a bag weighing 15kg. What is the combined weight of luggage to be moved by all the buses?

28. A man bought 100 eggs at N1500.00, 10 eggs were damaged. He sold the rest at N20.00 each. Calculate the percentage profit made.

29. A farmer sold his cock at 20% loss. If the cock was sold for ₦21:00 what was the initial worth of the cock?

30. In a coding system numbers 0 to 9 are coded a to j respectively, what will be the code for the number 4238?

31. A radio when sold at A certain price gives a gain of 20%, what will be the gain percent if sold for 3ce the price?

32. How many times do the hands of a clock overlap in 24 hours?

33. In a bag of oranges, the ratio of good ones to bad ones is 5:4. If the number of bad oranges in the bag is 36, how many oranges are there altogether?

34. By selling an article for N40, there is a loss of 40%, by selling it for N80, there would be

35. Solve 21% of 70

36. The sides of a triangle are in the ratio of 3:5:7 and its perimeter is 30cm. The length of the greatest side of the triangle in cm is

37. Which is the greatest of the following fractions?

38. The cost of 2 biros and 3 pencils is N18, if a pencil cost N2.50k, how much is a biro?

39. Tope had 30 kittens. After A bout of coccidiosis, all but 13 died. How many kittens are left?

40. If the value of x lies between 0 and 1, which of the following is the xlargest?

41. Wale and Joke have ratio 6:4 in 80 units of Transcorp’s shares. How many units of these shares belong to Wale?

42. A shopkeeper sold a T.V. set for N17, 940 with a discount of 8% and earned a profit of 19.6%, what would have been the percentage of profit earned if no discount was offered?

43. There is a boat with a ladder attached to it and the ladder is eight metres tall if the water rises four metres how much of the ladder will be into the water?

44. Look at this series: 2, 1, (1/2), (1/4) ... What number should come next?

45. Acquiesce is the opposite of ___________

46. Which of the following numbers is divisible by 3: (i) 541326 (ii) 5967013?

47. Write in Arabic numerals, CMVII

48. A bricklayer is Paid N1000:00k for 5 days work. What is his pay for 22days work?

49. How much time can be spent on each question if there are 60 questions to be completed in one and a half hours?

50. In an election the winner received 3/7 of the total vote: If the total number of votes cast were 700000, what number of votes did the winner receive?