JAMB UTME - Mathematics - 1979
Pregunta 1 Informe
A father is now three times as old as his son. Twelve years ago he was six times as old as his son. How old are the son and the father?
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Pregunta 2 Informe
If y = x2 - 2x - 3, Find the least value of y and corresponding value of x
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Pregunta 3 Informe
Which of the following values of the variable x, (a)x = 0, (b)x = -3, (c)x = 9, satisfy the inequalities 0 < \(\frac{x + 3}{x - 1}\) < 2?
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Pregunta 5 Informe
A ladder resting on a vertical wall makes an angles whose tangent is 2.4 with the ground. If the distance between the foot of the ladder and the wall is 50cm, What is the length of the ladder?
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Pregunta 6 Informe
12 men complete a job in 9 days. How many men working t the same rate would be required to complete the job in 6 days?
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Pregunta 7 Informe
In this figure, PQRS is a parallelogram, PS = PT and < PST = 55\(^o\). The size of <PQR is
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Pregunta 8 Informe
If the value of \(\pi\) is taken to be \(\frac{22}{7}\), the area of a semi-circle of diameter 42m is
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Pregunta 9 Informe
If x3 - 12x - 16 = 0 has x = -2 as a solution then the equaion has
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Pregunta 10 Informe
A square of cardboard is taped at the perimeter by a piece of ribbon 20cm long. What is the area of the board?
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Pregunta 12 Informe
The area under the speed time graph given the total distance covered by car. What is the average velocity to two places of decimals?
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Pregunta 14 Informe
Simplify \(\frac{x^2 + y^2 + xy}{x + y}\) - \(\frac{x^2 + y^2}{x - y}\)
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Pregunta 15 Informe
Find the value of log10\(\frac{1}{40}\), given that log104 = 0.6021
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Pregunta 17 Informe
Simplify 2\(\frac{5}{12}\) - 1\(\frac{7}{8}\) x \(\frac{6}{5}\)
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Pregunta 18 Informe
A steel ball of radius 1 cm is dropped into a cylinder of radius 2cm and height 4cm. If the cylinder is now filled with water, what is the volume of the water in the cylinder?
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Pregunta 19 Informe
x is directly proportional to y and inversely proportional to z. If x = 9 when y = 24 and z = 8, what is the value of x when y = 5 and z = 6?
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Pregunta 21 Informe
A man is standing in the corridor of a 10-storey building and looking down at a tall tree in front of the building. He sees the top of the tree at angle of depression of 30o. If the tree is 200m tall and the man's eyes are 300m above the ground, calculate the angle of depression of the foot tree as seen by the man
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Pregunta 22 Informe
PQRS is a cyclic quadrilateral with PQ as diameter of the circle. If < PQS = 15o find < QRS
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Pregunta 24 Informe
(Numbers indicate the lengths of the sides of the triangles) If the area of \(\bigtriangleup\) PQR is k2sq. units what is the area of the shades portion?
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Pregunta 27 Informe
In the figure, PQ and QR are chords of the circle PQR. QRS is a straight line and PR is equal to RS, < PSR is 20o. What is the size of
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Pregunta 28 Informe
The size of a quantity first doubles and then increases by a further 16%. After a short time its size decreases by 16%. What is the net increases in size of the quantity?
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Pregunta 29 Informe
Solve the simultaneous linear equations: 2x + 5y = 11, 7x + 4y = 2
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Pregunta 30 Informe
In the figure, PQ is parallel to SQ ; QS bisets < PSQ, < PQS is 65o and < RPS is 20o. What is the size of < PRS?
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Pregunta 31 Informe
After getting a rise of 15%, a man's new monthly salary is N345. How much per month did he earn before the increase?
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Pregunta 32 Informe
\((1.28 \times 10^{4}) \div (6.4 \times 10^{2})\) equals
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Pregunta 33 Informe
What is the greatest straight line distance between two vertices (corners) of a cube whose sides are 2239cm long?
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Pregunta 34 Informe
Rationalize the denominator of the expression \(\frac{6 + 2\sqrt{5}}{4 - 3\sqrt{6}}\)
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Pregunta 35 Informe
In the parallelogram PQRS, PE is perpendicular to QR. Find the area of the parallelogram.
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Pregunta 36 Informe
On each market day Mrs. Bassey walks to the market from her home at a steady speed. This journey normally takes her 2 hours to complete. She finds, however, that by increasing her usual speed by 1 km/hr she can save 20 minutes. Find her usual speed in km/hr
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Pregunta 39 Informe
An arc of circle of radius 2cm subtends an angle of 60o at the centre. Find the area of the sector
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Pregunta 41 Informe
The mean of the numbers 1.2, 1.0, 0.9, 1.4, 0.8, 0.8, 1.2 and 1.1 is
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Pregunta 42 Informe
A cylinder of height h and radius r is open at one end. Its surface area is
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Pregunta 43 Informe
A trader goes to Ghana for y days with y cedis. For the first x days, he spends X cedis per day. The amount he has to spend per day for the rest of his stay is
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Pregunta 44 Informe
If \(\sqrt{3^{\frac{1}{x}}}\) = \(\sqrt{9}\) then the value of x is:
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Pregunta 45 Informe
Simplify \(\frac{1 - x^2}{x - x^2}\), where x \(\neq\) 0
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Pregunta 46 Informe
Make x the subject of the equation a(b + c) + \(\frac{5}{d}\) - 2 = 0
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Pregunta 48 Informe
The annul profits of a transport business were divided between the partners A and B in the ratio 3 : 5. If B received N3000 more than A, the total profit was
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Pregunta 49 Informe
In the figure, \(\bigtriangleup\) ABC are in adjacent planes. AB = AC = 5cm, BC = 6cm and o then AE is equal to
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Pregunta 50 Informe
In \(\bigtriangleup\)PQR, PQ = 10cm, QR = 8cm and RP = 6cm, the perpendicular RS is drawn from R to PQ. Find the length of RS
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