JMC Entrance Sample Questions Maths

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ENTRANCE EXAMINATION INTO BASIC 7 2018/2019 SESSION
SATURDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2018
SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS TIME ALLOWED: 1 HOUR 30 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, Date of Birth and Date of
Examination in the spaces provided below.
4. Do calculation in any space on the question paper but NOT on the answer sheet.
5. 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 know, go back and answer the
difficult one(s).
6. Write your final answer boldly and clearly in the numbered box corresponding to that
question in the Answer Sheet (Page 14 of this booklet). If you make a mistake, wipe the
mistake neatly with your eraser and write the correct answer boldly and clearly.
7. Be sure to write your Name and Examination Number on the Answer Sheet (Page 14).
GOOD LUCK!
NAME:________________________________________________________________
Surname Other Names
EXAMINATION NUMBER: ______________________
PRESENT GRADE: ________________
DATE OF BIRTH: ___________________
DATE OF EXAMINATION: ___________________
NAME OF YOUR PRIMARY SCHOOL: ____________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
DO YOUR CALCULATION IN ANY SPACE ON THIS PAGE.
WRITE YOUR FINAL ANSWER IN THE BOX PROVIDED IN THE ANSWER SHEET.
You may use the following in your calculations
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𝜋= , 100𝑐𝑚 = 1𝑚, 1000𝑚 = 1𝑘𝑚, 1000𝑔 = 1𝑘𝑔, 1000𝑘𝑔 = 1𝑡
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1. Find the value of 7 + 9 − 4 × 4 − (9 + 5) ÷ 7.
2. Find the product of 𝑥 and 𝑦 in the figure below.
3. Chinelo is 𝑛 years old. Her twin brothers, Chukwudi and Chukwuemeka, are two years
younger than she is. Find the sum of her brothers’ ages, in years.
1 1 3 1
4. Simplify: 1 +2 × − .
2 3 4 2
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5. Nkechi earns N1600.00 every month. She saves one-quarter of it. How much does she spend
each year?
6. The circle below represents how the students of a certain class get to school every day. If there
are 48 students in the class, how many students come to school by bus? (Assume that all the
sectors are equal.)
7. Two rectangles measuring 6𝑐𝑚 by 7𝑐𝑚 and 8𝑐𝑚 by 9𝑐𝑚, respectively, overlap as shown
below. The region shaded grey has an area of 60𝑐𝑚2 . What is the area of the region shaded
black?
2
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8. Femi’s aunt lives 65𝑘𝑚 away from his house. When he wants to visit her, he travels of the
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distance by bus and the rest by foot. How many 𝑘𝑚 does he travel by foot?
9. The table below gives information on a reading competition between 5 students.
NAME NUMBER OF BOOKS READ

Peter ?
Femi 19
Chukwu 19
Sewuese 19
Amina 13
Peter read 6 books more than one-fifth of the sum of books read by the other four students.
How many books did Peter read?
10. How many vertices does the geometrical solid shown below have?
3
11. The symbol for Olympic Games consists of five intersecting rings, as shown below. The radius
of each ring is 7𝑐𝑚. Find the total circumference of the rings.
12. Austin drank 60% of his glass of milk. Afterward, 80𝑚𝑙 of milk remained in the glass. What
volume of milk was initially in the glass?
13. In 1990, the number of students in a certain school was 500. In 2008, the number of students
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was 2 times greater than it was in 1990. What was the number of students in the school in
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2008?
14. 5000𝑔 of a certain fish sells for 𝑁86.40. What is the price per kilogramme of the fish?
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15. On Wednesday morning, Adrian bought a tie for $15 and a shirt for $47.99. Later in the day,
he bought a packet of sweets for $0.15 and lollipop for $0.75. If he left his house in the
morning with only a $100 bill in his pocket, how much did he have left? (Assume he bought
everything with cash.)
16. A man’s weekly salary is N6000. If he gets a 10% pay rise, how much is his new monthly
salary?
17. A spring, which was 35𝑐𝑚 long, is stretched so that its length is increased by 16%. Calculate
its new length.
18. A trader reduces all her prices by 5%. What would be the price of a pair of trousers originally
marked at N2100?
19. The fuel tank of a lorry holds 80 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠 when it is 40% full. How much does the tank hold
when it is full?
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20. Of 80 drivers stopped by police, 20% did not have licences, 30% had defective lights and 5%
failed to observe a STOP sign. Calculate the number drivers who had defective lights.
21. The hands of a certain clock are as shown below. Find the acute angle between the minute
hand and the hour hand.
22. An aeroplane leaves Accra at 4:30pm and arrives in London at 2:30am the next day. What is
the duration of the flight? (Accra and London are on the same time zone.)
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23. The graph below shows the distance (vertical line) a man walks from his home one afternoon.
How far had he walked at 3pm?
24. What is the name of the chart below?
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25. The chart below shows grades obtained by some students in an examination. What percentage
of students obtained grade A?
26. A bank customer has $172 in a bank account. She withdraws $85 per month for the next three
months. She also writes 4 cheques for $45.75 each. How much money should she deposit into
the account to ensure that her balance is at least $25 at end of the 3 months?
27. Doo just opened a new pet store. The circle graph below shows the different types of pets in
the store on the first day of business. If there are 200 pets in the store, how many dog pets are
there?
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28. Each side of a certain square garden is 23 meters long. Fencing costs $7.00 per metre. How
much would it cost to put a fence around the garden?
29. The table below shows the number of students in four rooms: 101, 102, 103 and 104. There is a
joint class for all students who are in room 101 and 104. Find the ratio of girls to boys in the
joint class.
101
A. 102 103 104
Girls 12 15 18 9
Boys 16 10 16 20
30. A bread recipe calls for 0.24 litre of milk. Your measuring cup is marked in millilitres. How
many millilitres of milk do you need?
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31. A man decided to share N100,000 among his four children. One gets of the income, another
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1 3 1
gets while the rest got and , respectively. If the sharing was done in the order of age
2 10 5
(such that the oldest child got the largest share), what amount of money did the youngest child
get?
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32. If the data in the table below is represented in a pie chart, what angle would represent students
who prefer summer?
SEASON STUDENT PREFERENCE

Summer 40%
Spring 11%
Winter 4%
Fall 45%
33. If the black counters in the figure below were to be five, how many green counters would there
be? (Assume that the ratio of black counters to green counters remains unchanged.)
34. A painter needs 15 gallons of violet paint. The formula for mixing violet paint is 3 parts blue
and 2 parts red. How many gallons of blue paint does the painter need?
35. A family of 2 consumes half a bag of rice in 3 months. At this same rate of consumption, how
many bags will a family of six consume in two years?
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36. A wildlife reserve surveyed its wolf population in 1996 and counted 86 wolves. In 2000, there
were 60 wolves. In 2002, there were 52 wolves, as shown in the table below. If the wolf
population changes at a constant rate, what year will there be fewer than 15 wolves?
YEAR WOLVES
1996 86
2000 60
2002 52
2004 44
37. Two ropes of length 72𝑚 and 96𝑚 are to be cut into pieces of equal length. What is the longest
possible piece you can have?
38. Chinyere buys 12 pens for a total N120.00 and sells each for N20.00. What is Chinyere’s profit
per pen?
39. The diagram below is a floor plan drawn by an architect. Find the area of the bedroom.
30𝑚
Bedroom
Family room
Living room
40𝑚
28𝑚
Bath room
Kitchen Dining room
55𝑚
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40. A birdwatcher on a cliff saw an eagle 10 metres above him. Earlier, he had spotted the same
eagle 10 metres below him. What is the eagle’s change in altitude? (Assume that all distances
are vertical.)
41. A figure that can be folded over along a straight line so that the result is two equal halves that
are then lying on top of one another with no overlap is said to have a line of symmetry. Write
down one figure that has only one line of symmetry.
42. Find the value of 𝑚 in the equation: 7 − 2𝑚 = 3.
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43. ∠𝐵𝐴𝐶 is constructed as shown below. What is the value of the angle?
44. How many kites are there in the figure below?
A B Z
P S
D Y
C
Q R
E F X
45. If, in the figure below, 𝑎 = 3 and 𝑏 = 4, find the value of 𝑒. (Note that the symbol ∗ is
multiplication sign.)
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NAME: ______________________________________________ EXAM NO.: ________________
ANSWER SHEET
DO NO CALCULATION ON THIS PAGE.
WRITE YOUR FINAL ANSWER ONLY IN THE BOX PROVIDED.
Example 1 2cm 2 30 3 2kg

M
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30
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31 32 33 34 35
36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45
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JESUIT MEMORIAL COLLEGE

SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS TIME ALLOWED: 1 HOUR 30 MINUTES

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

PRESENT GRADE: ________________

DATE OF BIRTH: ___________________

DATE OF EXAMINATION: ___________________

NAME OF YOUR PRIMARY SCHOOL: ____________________________________

You may use the following in your calculations

1. Find the value of 7 + 9 − 4 × 4 − (9 + 5) ÷ 7.

2. Find the product of 𝑥 and 𝑦 in the figure below.

9. The table below gives information on a reading competition between 5 students.

NAME NUMBER OF BOOKS READ

24. What is the name of the chart below?

SEASON STUDENT PREFERENCE

42. Find the value of 𝑚 in the equation: 7 − 2𝑚 = 3.

44. How many kites are there in the figure below?

Example 1 2cm 2 30 3 2kg

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