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12TH ANNUAL NATIONAL MATHEMATICS 9. Saudatu wants to read a book of 200 pages. Every day she
COMPETITION reads 25 pages. In how many can she finish the book?
A. 4
2ND ROUND, 14TH MARCH 2015
B. 6
C. 8
D. 10
ALGEBRA
E. 12
1. 55 + 66 = ?
A. 74 10. Evaluate 1 × 2 + 3 × 4 + 5 × 6.
B. 82
A. 140
C. 108
B. 100
D. 121
C. 80
E. 172 D. 65
E. 44
2. =?
11. Dalton has 10 cats as shown below. How many white cats
A. 2 should be sent away so that half of the remaining cats will be
B. 4 black?
C. 6
D. 8
E. 9

3. 9×7=?
A. 42 A. 1
B. 56 B. 2
C. 60 C. 3
D. 63 D. 4
E. 72 E. 5

4. Calculate 2040 − 40 + 40 − 2000.

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12. What percentage is shaded in the figure?

A. 10 A. 5%
B. 4040 B. 10%
C. 40 C. 15%
D. 80 D. 24%
E. 2040 E. 30%

5. Which number is not between 5,345 and 7,216? 13. 6 × 10,000 + 2 × 1000 + 1 × 10 = ?
A. 5,499 A. 62,010
B. 7,539 B. 60,021
C. 6,499 C. 60,210
D. 5,985 D. 62,210
E. 7,198 E. 60,201

6. 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 = ? 14. By what percentage should we increase the number 2 to

A. 8 make it 2.5?
B. 13 A. 20%
C. 22 B. 25%
D. 28 C. 30%
E. 36 D. 50%
E. 75%
7. Today is a Saturday. After how many days will it be a Saturday
again? 15. Which of the following is more than 1/2?
A. 42 A. 2/5
B. 36 B. 0.3
C. 30 C. 0.5
D. 25
D. 40%
E. 18
E. 4/7
8. Aisha has 6 apples. How many apples will be left if she eats
16. Which digit is represented by in the addition given?
2
of the apples? A. 5
3 B. 6
A. 0 C. 7
B. 1 D. 8
C. 2 E. 9
D. 3
E. 5

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17. I think of a number, multiplied by 2 and added 7. The result 25. Farida decides to read three books that her teacher gave
is 19. What is the number? her. She reads the first book in 1 week 4 days, the second book in
A. 6 8 days and the third book in 2 weeks 3 days. If she gives a break
B. 8 of 1 day after finishing each book, how long does it take for her
C. 10 to return all three books?
D. 14 A. 4 weeks
E. 20 B. 4 weeks 3 days
C. 5 weeks
18. Which list shows the numbers in order from the smallest to D. 5 weeks 3 days
the greatest? E. 6 weeks
A. 1,734 1,816 2,432 2,099
B. 1,734 1,816 2,099 2,432
1 2 3
C. 1,816 1,734 2,099 2,432 26. Evaluate    .
D. 2,432 2,099 1,734 1,816 2 3 4
E. 2,099 1,734 2,099 2,432 A. 1
B. 6/11
19. Add 40% of 200 to 60% of 300. What is the result? C. 7/12
A. 160 D. 8/15
B. 200 E. 9/16
C. 260
D. 300 27. A father divided a sum of N4000 between his three children
E. 320 in the ratio of 1:3:4. Find the largest share.
A. N1000
20. 5 Lorries can carry 20 tonnes, how many tonnes can 8 B. N2000
Lorries carry? C. N2500
A. 20 D. N3000
B. 23 E. N3500
C. 28
D. 32 28. 3/5 of the students in a class of 20 students are boys. If 4
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E. 40 new students - 3 boys and 1 girl - come to this class, what will be
the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in the
class?

21. =? A. 5:3
B. 2:5
× × C. 3:7
A. 26 D. 1:2
B. 20 E. 3:4
C. 18
D. 16 29. Two numbers A and B are given. The number A is equal to 6
E. 12 and B is equal to 3 less than A. What is A+B?
A. 12
22. Patrick wants to list the positive factors of the number 24. B. 9
How many numbers is he going to write? C. 8
A. 2 D. 6
B. 4 E. 4
C. 8
D. 9 30. Which of the following numbers is divisible by 3?
E. 10 A. 185
B. 194
23. Which of the following cannot be written as the product of C. 217
two prime numbers? D. 242
A. 6 E. 264
B. 15
C. 18 31. A restaurant has 16 tables. 4 people can seat on each
D. 21 table. If 40 people were seated at the tables, how many more
E. 35 people can be seated in the restaurant?
A. 17
24. Lawan calculates the highest common factor of 30 and 24 B. 20
and tells the result to Olowo. Then, Kelechi calculates the lowest C. 24
common multiple of 30 and 24 and tells the result to Olowo. Olowo D. 28
multiplies the two results and writes the product on the board. E. 32
What will Olowo write on the board?
A. 880
B. 800
C. 720
D. 600
E. 500

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32. A car travels from town A to town B with a constant speed 40. Which of the following is NOT a prism?
of 50 km/h. The travel takes 6 hours. How long will the journey A. Cylinder
take if the car increases its speed by 25 km/h? B. Cube
A. 8 hours C. Pyramid
B. 6 hours D. Cuboid
C. 5 hours E. Square based Prism
D. 4 hours
E. 3 hours 41. The rectangle in the figure is made up of three squares. Find
the perimeter of the rectangle if the perimeter of one square is 16
33. Ms. Bryce has 25 animals on her farm. She has 7 horses, 6 cm.
sheep, and 3 cows. The rest of the animals are chickens. How A. 24 cm
many legs do these animals have in total? (Horses, sheep and B. 32 cm
cows have 4 legs, chickens have 2 legs) C. 48 cm
A. 82 D. 64 cm
B. 75 E. 81 cm
C. 60
D. 51 42. Find the perimeter of the semi-circle whose diameter is 28
E. 43 22
cm. (   )
34. A and B are two positive whole numbers. A+B=19. Find
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the smallest and the greatest possible values of A×B. A. 28 cm
Smallest Greatest B. 40 cm
C. 72 cm 28 cm
A. 18 90
B. 20 88 D. 80 cm
C. 18 99 E. 96 cm
D. 12 88
E. 34 90 Answer the questions 43 and 44 by using the following
figure.
35. Three bells are set so that the first bell rings in every 12 8 cm
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minutes, the second bell rings in every 18 minutes and the third
bell rings in every 30 minutes. If three of them ring at 11.00 am 5 cm
10 cm
altogether, when will they again ring altogether?
A. 12.00 pm 7 cm
3 cm
B. 12.30 pm
C. 1.00 pm 21 cm
D. 1.30 pm
E. 2.00 pm 43. Find the perimeter of the shape.
A. 40 cm
GEOMETRY B. 50 cm
36. What is the sum of the interior angles of a rectangle? C. 48 cm
A. 60o D. 54 cm
B. 90o E. 60 cm
C. 150o
D. 180o 44. Find the area of the shape.
E. 360o A. 105 cm2
B. 109 cm2
37. If b=11 and a=8 on the shape. Define the below figure. C. 118 cm2
A. Scalene triangle D. 124 cm2
B. Equilateral triangle E. 136 cm2
C. Isosceles triangle x°
D. Right angled triangle 45. Find x in the given isosceles triangle.
10
10

E. Square A. 20
B. 30
C. 40
38. Find x in the given triangle. D. 50 4x°

A. 60o x° E. 60
B. 63o
C. 72o
D. 80o 46. Find the area of the given rectangle. y+2
E. 85o 40° 60° A. 14
B. 18 m y-1
39. How many m3 of water does a 2m × 4m × 5m tank hold? C. 21
A. 11 D. 24
B. 20 E. 28 7
C. 25
D. 30
E. 40
47. The interior angles of a quadrilateral are in the ratio of Look at the following series:
1:2:3:4. Find the greatest angle. 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, …
A. 72o Every number in this series is repeated in the number of its value.
B. 90o For example; 3 is repeated three times.
C. 105o
D. 120o Answer the questions 55, 56 and 57 according to the
E. 144o information given above.
40 cm
48. What is the shaded area? 55. What is the 25th number?
A. 600 cm2 30 cm A. 5
B. 500 cm2 B. 6
30 cm 20 cm
C. 400 cm2 C. 7
2
D. 300 cm D. 8
E. 200 cm2 E. 9

49. What is the smaller angle between the hour and the minute 56. What is the position that the number 10 appears for the first
hands of a clock when it is 9.10 am? time?
A. 60o A. 52nd
B. 90o B. 46th
C. 120o C. 39th
D. 145o D. 36th
E. 170o E. 30th

50. Amina counts the number of faces of the given pentagonal 57. What is the sum of the first 20 numbers in the series?
pyramid. Farouk counts the number of vertices and Tobi counts the A. 68
number of sides. What is the sum of the three numbers that they B. 77
find? C. 85
A. 14 D. 90
B. 16 E. 99
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C. 18
D. 22 58. Michael likes eating sweets. Starting from 11.10 am to 2.25
E. 25 pm, he ate one sweet at every 5 minutes (He got sick after eating
that much).

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51. What is the next number in the series: 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, ?
A. 19 How many sweets did he eat?
B. 18 A. 41
C. 17 B. 40
D. 16 C. 37
E. 15 D. 35
E. 33
52. What is the next number in the series: 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, ?
A. 12 The table below shows the number of each colour of balloons that
B. 16 Abel has.
C. 19
D. 22 Number of
Colour
E. 25 Balloons
Blue 118
53. What is the next number in the series: 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, ? Green 125
A. 22 Yellow 152
B. 26 Red 143
C. 29 White 99
D. 32
E. 35 Answer the questions 59, 60 and 61 according to the
given information above.
54. What is the next number in the series: 1, 2, 2, 4, 8, 32, ? 59. Which colour of balloons does Abel have most?
A. 180 A. Blue
B. 212 B. Green
C. 240 C. Yellow
D. 256 D. Red
E. 298 E. White
60. How many more blue balloons than white balloons does 67. Which story problem below can be described by the
Abel have? equation 7 – 4 = ?
A. 17 A. Tope has 4 movies and 7 books. How many movies and
B. 19 books does Tope have in all?
C. 21 B. Tope has 7 books. The number of movies he has is 4 less
D. 23 than the number of books. How many movies does Tope have?
E. 25 C. Tope has 4 shelves with 7 books on each shelf. How many
books does he have in total?
61. Abel has more than 123 but less than 139 of which colour of D. Tope has 7 books on 4 shelves. How many books are there
balloons? in each shelf?
A. Blue E. Tope 7 blue books and 4 green books. How many books
B. Green does he have in total?
C. Yellow
D. Red 68. The “floor” of a function is defined to be the largest whole
E. White number which is not greater than that fraction. For instance,
 floor (33 / 4) 
floor(14/5)=2. Evaluate floor  
62. If Abel loses 3 blue, 9 green, 38 yellow and 26 red balloons,  floor (25 / 7) 
which colour of balloons will Abel have most? A. 1
A. Blue B. 2
B. Green C. 3
C. Yellow D. 4
D. Red E. 5
E. White

69. Four contestants are competing in a math tournament. The

63. When Mr. Kenneth puts 4 balls inside a box, the box weighs first place will receive a gold medal, the second place will receive
3 kg in total. When he puts 8 balls inside the box, it weighs 4 kg a silver medal, and the third place will receive a bronze medal. No
in total. How many kg will the box weigh in total when he puts 16 other prizes will be awarded. How many different ways can the
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balls inside the box? three medals be awarded among the four contestants?
A. 5 kg. A. 30
B. 6 kg. B. 24
C. 7 kg. C. 20
D. 8 kg. D. 16
E. 10 kg. E. 15

70. If 7948=LIKE and 51326=MATHS, then 5148=?

64. A. MAKE
B. TASK
C. MASK
On the number line, point L is the midpoint between D. TAKE
A. 104 and 120 E. LIST
B. 100 and 120
C. 108 and 120 The operation  is defined such that AB is equal to the smaller
D. 100 and 108 of the two numbers. (For example; 34=3 and 72=2)
E. 104 and 108 The operation  is defined such that A  B is equal to the greater
of the two numbers. (For example;
1  8=8 and 5  3=5)
65. How many parallelograms are there in the figure? Answer the questions 71, 72 and 73 using the above
A. 3 information.
B. 5
C. 6 71. 57=?
D. 7 A. 2
E. 9 B. 5
C. 7
D. 12
66. How many numbers are there in the sequence E. 35
20, 22, 24, 26, 28, … , 100?
A. 30 72. (2  4) + (7  6) = ?
B. 37 A. 8
C. 41
B. 9
D. 43 C. 10
E. 47 D. 11
E. 12
73. [(3  4)  (8  1)]  [(6  3)  (7  8)] = ? WORKING AREA
A. 1 (You can use this space for rough work)
B. 3
C. 4
D. 7
E. 8

The caterpillar in the figure (at point A) wants to reach the grape
(at point B) by moving only along the edges of the cube. The
edge length is 10 cm. The caterpillar cannot travel along the same
edge twice.

Answer the questions 74 and 75 by using the above

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information.

74. Find the shortest possible distance to the grape.

A. 30 cm
B. 40 cm
C. 50 cm
D. 60 cm
E. 70 cm

75. Find the longest possible distance to the grape.

A. 40 cm
B. 50 cm
C. 60 cm
D. 70 cm
E. 80 cm

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