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Supreme Maths Edge Challenge 2017 PDF
Supreme Maths Edge Challenge 2017 PDF
Instructions
OBJECTIVES
Instruction: Answer all questions.
1 5
1. By how much is 5 3 greater than 3 8? 6. Find one side of an equilateral
17 triangle as a percentage of its
A. 1 24
perimeter.
7
B. 2 24 A. 0.33%
7
C. 1 24 B. 0.67%
1
17 C. 33 3 %
D. 2 24 2
D. 66 3 %
2. Express 3% of 3m in centimeters
A. 900cm 7. Ajayis car uses petrol at an average
B. 90cm rate of 8km per litre. If he buys
C. 9cm petrol at 60k per litre, how much
D. 0.9cm will he spend on petrol for a journey
of 480km?
3. What percentage of 5m is 5cm? A. N360.00
A. 100% B. N 48.00
B. 90% C. N 36.00
C. 10% D. N 32.00
D. 1%
8. Three bells toll at intervals of 3
4. A uniform wire 20cm long weighs minutes, 6 minutes, and 8 minutes.
15g. What is the weight of 24cm of If they toll together at 12.00 noon,
the same wire? when will they toll together again?
A. 24g A. 12.03pm
B. 19g B. 12.06pm
C. 18g C. 12.17pm
D. 16g D. 12.24pm
A. 10110
B. 1110 A. 30
C. 1001 B. 20
D. 1101 C. 40
D. 90
3
23. An aeroplane flies 2783 km in 5 4
27. Solve the equation 19 = 16 21
hours. First approximate, then 1
A. 2 3
calculate, the average distance it 1
flies in 1 hour. B. 2 4
A. 400km 5
C. 3
B. 484km 1
C. 480km D. 2 2
D. 500km
28. The difference, in grammes,
between kg and 50 grammes is
24. Round off each number in 0.108 A. 50
0.027 to one significant figure. Then B. 49
approximate the answer. C. 950
2
A. 3 3 D. 9050
2
B. 1 3
1
C. 3 3
2
D. 2 3
27m A. 11yrs
B. 12yrs
A. 3772 C. 13yrs
B. 3572 D. 14yrs
C. 3552
D. 3502
A. 8.02a.m A. 10k
B. 8.04a.m B. 45k
C. 8.06a.m C. 53k
D. 8.8a.m D. 95k
38. The length of a rectangle is twice its 42. A faulty watch gains 10 seconds an
breadth; if the perimeter of the hour. If it is set correctly at 8p.m.
rectangle is 36cm, find the length of one evening what time will it show
the rectangle. when the correct time is 8p.m. the
following evening?
A. 6cm
B. 8cm A. 8.04
C. 12cm B. 8.02
D. 18cm C. 8.00
D. 7.58
39. If 2 dozen eggs cost 300. How
much will 5 eggs cost? 43. How many squares of side 2cm each
can be obtained from a rectangle of
A. 1,500.00
length 27cm and breadth 8cm?
B. 625.00
C. 120.00 A. 27
D. 62.50 B. 32
C. 54
40. Sola, Kemi and Ojo were given
D. 216
45.00 by their grandfather. If Sola
received 40% of this amount, how 44. Three bells toll at intervals. The first
much remained to be shared bell tolls in every 15 minutes, the
between Kemi and Ojo? second bell tolls every 25minutes
and the third bell tolls every 30
A. 45.00 minutes. What time will all the bells
B. 27.00 toll together?
A. 1hour 10 minutes
C. 26.50
B. 1 hour 30 minutes
D. 18.50
C. 2 hours
D. 2 hours 30 minutes
A. 2030
B. 2001
C. 2029
D. 2081
1. (a) A cylindrical can of diameter 28cm and height 8cm is filled with oil. If the oil is
emptied into a conical tin of base radius 10cm and slant height 7.5cm, find the depth
of the oil in the cone.
(b) Two consecutive whole numbers are such that twice the smaller added to the
greater make a total of 52. Find the numbers.
2. (a) Sophia did push-ups every day for 7 days. Each day after the first day, she did 5
more push-ups than the day before. In total, she did 175 push-ups. How many push-
ups did Sophia do on the last day?
(b)
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8 7 6
3. (a) A larger cube has volume 643. A smaller cube has edge that are half the
length of the edges of the larger cube. What is the volume of the smaller cube?
(b) Ade runs 100m in 10 seconds. Olu runs 400m in 44 seconds. Maintaining these
constant speeds, they participate in a 1km race. How far ahead, to the nearest metre,
is the winner as he crosses the finish line?
4cm
4. (a)
(b) A girl gets n naira pocket money each week. She saves her money for five weeks
and buys a present for a mother which costs N1 200. How much does she have left?