ATTEMPT ALLL 50 QUESTIONS, DO NOT MAKE ANY MARK ON THE QUESTION
PAPER. DO ALL CALCULATIONS AND ROUGH_ WORK ON THE PLAIN SHEET PROVIDED.WRITE YoURANSWERS IN INK ON TIIE ANSWERSHEET PROVIDEDL Q1.4. Study the diagrams in questions 1 -4 carefully and indicate which ofthe eight options below the ones in the rectangle would be most appropriate/suitable to complete the blank space within it (.i.e. the rectangle)
D BD 2
ED D O
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7 v 9-.he figures below represent the three languages that the children Study them carefullyand ansiver the in an urban school speak. questions below
Dagbani
2 EWE
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Q5. How many children speak all the three languages?
Q6. How many children speak Ewe and Ga but not Dagbani? 's Q7. How many children speak Q8. You bought a textbook forDagbani and Ga büt'not Ewe? 20 back for ¢80 and ¢60 and sold it for ¢70 cedis then in your third sold it again for ¢90. How year you bought it Ans: (a) lost ¢10 much'money did you make or lose in these transactions? ()Gained Q9. Consider the following two ¢20 (¢) Broke even (d) Gained #10 (e) Lost ¢20 multiplication prôblems: (1) 8 x9 x15x 7 x6 x5 x4 x2 (2) 2 x4x 5 x6 x7x 15x 9 x8
Which answer will be
greater? a) Answer to number I will be greater (b) Answer to number 2 Q 10. Aherbalist advertise that 80% of (Answer is same people with fibroids or HlV get well within a month taking his new drug. However scientific tests after that 98% of people at Nougouchi Medical Research Center, with taking the drug. What would you Legon the diseases recover withoit reveals (a) The drug is certainly effective since 79% conclude? (6) Since some patients recover the recovery rate seems a high figure drug must work somehow (c) We can't be certain about the effectiveness of the drug () The drug is worse than useless because il interfers with recovery QI1-14. From the words or of the following sentences. groups of words letteredA to D, choose the one that best completes each
Qi1. Take the donation
irom offers to help. (a) Whom (b) Whichever (c) Whomever (C) Whoever salt to our soup Q12. Mother asked us to add more (C) Many more ( A little more (a) Some few (b) A few
vitally important to Our national
Q13. Your mastery of Ghanaian languages sccurity Is (b) Are
books and a lot of it Mary's
Q14. Most of it (c), Were; Was (d), Was; were
(a)) Was; was (b) Were: were
more than o nn Or 1/5 of one-half of 4.000? 241 Q 15. What is the number that is one
agit is onc-1ifth of the last and the second and
What is the four-digit number in which tn St Q 16.digits third are the last digit multiplied by 3 (Hint: the Sum of all digits is 12)
.t d Q17. 50% of military personnel at Burmalcamp nave unlisted telephone numbers. You select 200 names at random from the 3,000 listed names in'the pnone. How many of the people can be expected
to have unlisted phone numbers?
Q18. You and your friend have the same amount of money. How much do you have to give your friend so that your friend has ¢75 more than you?
Q19. Jane went to visit Jill, Jill is Jane's only. husband's mother in law's only daughter's only to Jane? daughter. What relation is Jill
Q20. Which of the following words: belowids least like the others/ (Hint: the words can be anagrammed used to form names of towns and cities) or
(a) PAIRS (b) AMET (c) ACSLCHE (d)EHOHO ( TRHIS
Q21. In a marathon race, John was neither first nor last; Janet beat John, John Beat Peter. Chareles beat Rachael. Pat beat Chareles. Who came last? .
Q22. Statistics indicate that men drivers are involved in more accidents than women drivers. The only conclusion that can certainly be draw is that
(a) Men are actually better drivers but drive more frequently (b) Men and women drive equally weli but men drive more total mileage (C) Most commercial and truck drivers are men There is not enough information to justity any of the above conclusion
A from the Operation Vanguard Unit are patrol in left they will Q23. Squad of soldiers out of petrol betore they reach a filling station, they have already gone too far past a service station to on a run
return betore they run out of petrol. They do
following statements can be positively deduced: not see a service station ahead. Only one of the
(a) They will run out
of petrol (b) They are lost (c) They should not have taken this route (d They may run out of petrol (e) They should turn right at the stop (f) They should turn leit at sign the stop sign. Q24 a n a is preparing for the outbreak of a dangerous discase which is expected to kill 600 pcople. nere has been designed two alternative programs to combat the disease. It program A is adopled there is a one-third probability that all 600 will be saved and a two-thirds probability that no people wll be saved. If program B is adopted, there is a one-third probability that nobody will die and two-thirds probability that all 600 people will die. Which program will you choose? rogram A because a number of lives could be savecd (b Both programs because there is a chance that nobody will die O 5oth programs have exactly the same consequences in terms o mortality ratc, therefore both are the same. Q25-26. In the boxes below, a rule of arithmetic applies across and down the boxes so that two of
the numbers in a line produce the third. What is the missing number in each box?
Q25. Q26 6 2 4 2 0
Q27. In the group below find the two words whose'meanings do not belong with the others.
(a) Glue (y) Sieve chainsaw (d) na! (e) airing () Paper clip Q 28. A watchman works seven days a week carning a daily wages of ¢30. How much did he earn in February 1988? 37O Q29. Instead of subtracting 5 from a number a boy added 5 and got 11. What should have been the correct answer to the problem?
Q30. Kweku is twice as old as yaw Three years ago, he was three times as old as yaw. How old is Yaw? y Q31-33. State whether the conclusion at each set of premise is valid or invalid. Q31 is then the streets will be dark. (a)If there a solar eclipse, (b) The streets are dark n Conclusion: therefore, there is a solar eclipse Q32. (a) All animals love water (b) Cats do not like water Conclusion: Therefore, cats are not animals
Q33. (a) AII Journalist are brilliant
(b) All media practioners are Journalists
Conclusion: Therefore, all Journalist are media practioners
Q34. Imagine a rectanglethat is three times as nign as its wide. Next imagine drawing two lines
parallel to the base so that the rectangle is aiucu nO nree cqual parts. Now draw t o
to tne opposite corners.
one from each corner of the original rectarigie HOW many segments are now in the rectangle' 10 955. How many squares do you see in the figure)below?
10cm
1Ocm
Q36-39, Rearrange these words to from an English word
Q42. 2359 17 33 Q43.7:21 as 5: 15 as 4 2 Q44. Two cars start from a certain town and travel in opposite directions. One goes north at S4 while the other goes south at mph 56mph. After how long will they be 180 miles apart? 1
Q45. In the same tamily there are five brothers and each brother has one sister. I1 you Count its. Sam how many females are there in the same family? Q46. John drives Irom Accra to Kumasi at 11 am eoing at 50mph. At T1:30 am, umast to ACCra averaging a speed Mary of 65mph. Both take the same route which extends 200 leaves miles between the two cities. At 1Z:30pm who is nearer to Accra Q47. If zero hour tor a meeting on a certain day avas 12 noon, wnat Time 21/4h) wa How many ditterent size circles appear below?
