Spiritan International Girls’ Secondary School, Sabon-Lugbe – Abuja

JS 1 - First Term Examination in Mathematics – Time: 2 hours 30 minutes

Section A – Objective Questions
1. What is the standard form of 7,000 + 800 A) 160 B) 150 C) 140
+ 20 + 5? A) 7 285 B) 7 825 C) 7 D) 120
852 D) 7 528
2. What is the place value of 6 in 718609. 13. How many tens are there in 36520?
A) 600 000 B) 60 000 C) 6 000 A) 20 B) 36 C) 365 D)
D) 600 3652
3. Write in powers of 10 the place holder 14. How many 25 kobo are there in ₦25.00?
of 2 in 7209135. A) 102 B) 104 A) 10 B) 50 C) 100 D)
5 6
C) 10 D) 10 125
4. Write in figures: five billion and five. 15. In a school, 704 desks are to be placed
A) 5 000 000 5 B) 5 000 005 equally into 22 classrooms. How many
C) 5 000 000 000 5 D) 5 000 000 desks are placed in each room?
005 A) 30 B) 32 C) 34 D)
5. The sum of the biggest and smallest 42
two-digit numbers
A) 109 B) 119 C) 189 16. Jane started watching television at 9:
D) 199 35p.m. She went to bed 1 hour 45
minutes later. At what time did she go to
6. Write the biggest three-digit number. bed? A) 10: 20p.m. B) 10: 20a.m.
A) 9909 B) 9980 C) 9880 C) 11: 20p.m. D) 11: 20 a.m.
D) 999
17. Write in Roman numerals: 91.
7. Which number is 30 000 smaller than A) CXI B) XCI C) XIC
713 109? D) CIX
A) 743 109 B) 710 109 C)
683 109 D) 643 109 18. Write in Roman numerals: 405.
A) CDV B) DCV C) DVC D)
8. What is the difference between 35 149 VCD
and 38 149?
A) 3 000 B) 5 000 C) 8 000 19. Write in Hindu-Arabic numerals:
D) 8 149 MLXIV.
A) 1605 B) 1066 C) 1604 D)
9. 788 × 99 = 78 800 −¿ . Find the 1064
missing number.
A) 88 B) 99 C) 788 D) 20. Write in Hindu-Arabic numerals:
800 CMXLIX.
A) 909 B) 929 C) 949 D)
10. 8 ×7 +7 ×7=7 p . Find the value of p.
A) 16 B) 15 C) 14 D)
13 21. Place holders in binary system are
powers of ---
11. The product of a number and 6 is 240. A) 2 B) 4 C) 8 D)
Find the number. 10
A) 40 B) 80 C) 120 D)
140 22. How many digits are there in binary
system?
12. Kamsi arranged square tiles in 12 rows A) 10 B) 2 C) 1 D) 0
with 10 tiles in each row. How many
tiles were arranged altogether? 23. How many digits are there in denary
system?
A) 5 B) 10 C) 20 D) 100
 35. Which of the following is Not
24. In the binary system, the 6th place holder 1 5
is ----. equivalent to ? A) B)
3 15
A) 6 B) 16 C) 32 D) 64 6 7 8
C) D)
18 22 24
25. The value of 26 is -----
A) 64 B) 32 C) 16 D) 12 2
36. The equivalent fraction of with 6 as
5
26. The largest denary number with three
binary digits is - A) 4 B) 5
6 6
numerator is: A) B) C)
C) 6 D) 7 10 15
6 6
D)
27. Convert to binary the denary number 31. 20 25
A) 10001 B) 11101 C) 11111
D) 11011 12
37. The equivalent fraction of with 9 as
27
28. Convert ( 10101 )2 to base 10. 4
A) 14 B) 17 C) 21 denominator is: A) B)
9
D) 31 5 6 7
C) D)
9 9 9
29. Write 23 +22 +20 in base 2.
A) 1101 B) 1100 C) 111 38. Which of the following is an improper
D) 110 fraction?
3 5 5 3
30. Write 16 + 8 + 1 in base 2. A) B) C) D)
A) 10011 B) 11001 C) 11100 D)
5 8 3 8
11010
39. The following are improper fractions
31. What fraction of the rectangle is NOT except:
shaded? 1 5 7 9
A) B) C) D)
1 1 2 3 4 5
A) B)
4 7
3 3 18
C) D)
40. The fraction , in its simplest form is:
7 4 27
32. Which of the shaded is equivalent to
1 2 3 4
3 A) B) C) D)
? 2 3 4 5
12
A) 1 B) 2 41. Express 0.75 as fraction in its lowest
C) 3 D) 4 term.
1 2 3 4
33. Equivalent fractions are: A) B) C) D)
A) Equal fractions B) Proper 2 3 4 5
fractions
C) Improper fractions D) Mixed 4
42. Paula spent of her money on biscuits.
fractions 5
34. Which of the following is equivalent to What fraction of her money is left?
5
? 1 1 3 4
20 A) B) C) D)
1 1 1 1 5 4 5 5
A) B) C) D)
2 3 4 5
43. Which is the smallest?:
1 4 3 7
A) B) C) D)
2 5 4 10
 83 58. Which of the following can divide 87
44. Write in decimal fraction. and 147 exactly. A) 2 B) 3 C)
100
A) 8300 B) 830 C) 8.3 D) 0.83 5 D) 7

45. In a pack of playing cards, 2 out of 59. Find the number that divides 38 and 143
every 5 cards are green. What leaving a remainder of 3 in each case.
percentage of the cards are NOT green? A) 2 B) 3 C) 5 D) 7
A) 20% B) 25% C) 40% D)
60% 60. The number 3504 is NOT divisible by:
A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5
46. Which of the following is NOT a prime
number? General
A) 17 B) 27 C) 37 D) 61. What is the next term in the sequence: 1,
47 4, 9, 16, --?
A) 28 B) 30 C) 34 D) 36
47. What is the prime factorization of 18?
A) 1 × 18 B) 2 × 9 C) 3 × 6 D) 2 62. Find the next term of the squence: 6, 11,
× 32 21, 36, ---.
A) 56 B) 51 C) 46 D) 41
48. How many factors has 24?
A) 5 B) 6 C) 8 D) 9 63. A pattern is created so that the number
continues to get 2 times smaller each
49. How many prime factors has 70?
time. The first number is 32. Find the 4th
A) 5 B) 4 C) 3 D) 2
number.
50. How many composite factors has 40? A) 8 B) 4 C) 2 D) 0.5
A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8
51. Which number is NOT a common factor 64. The sum of three successive numbers is
of 30 and 42? A) 2 B) 3 C) 6 60. Find the 3rd number. A) 18
D) 7 B) 19 C) 20 D) 21
52. Find the HCF of 12, 15 and 18. 65. The last term of the sequence: 3, 7, 11,
A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) 6 15, ⋯ is 123. Find the value of the
middle term.
53. Find the highest number which can A) 57 B) 60 C) 63
divide 20 and 26 leaving a remainder of D) 66
2 in each case.
A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8 66. If the LCM of two numbers is 20, then,
54. How many common multiples of 2 and their HCF could be any of the following
3, less than 50, are there? A) 5 numbers except ---.
B) 6 C) 7 D) 8 A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5
55. Find the LCM of 12 and 15.
A) 36 B) 45 C) 60 D) 180 67. Given that the HCF of two numbers is 6,
their LCM could be any of the following
56. Which of the following cannot be a
multiple of 6? numbers except -
A) 406 B) 546 C) 720 D) 102 A) 9 B) 12 C) 18 D) 24

57. A number is divisible by 10 when --- 68. Juliet has 18 green and 15 red playing
A) its unit digit is 0 B) its unit digit cards. She wants to pack them such that
is even each pack contains equal number of
C) its tens digit is zero D) none of the green cards and equal number of red
above
cards. What is the possible number of
cards in each pack?
A) 3 B) 5 C) 6 D) 11
69. A class of pupils not greater than 40 in 77. Which one of the following statements
number, are to be grouped into 3 or 4 is NOT true?
A) HCF of two numbers is a factor of
with no one left out. Find the maximum
their LCM
possible number of pupils in the class. B) The product of HCF and LCM of two
A) 24 B) 30 C) 36 D) 40 numbers is equal to their
product.
70. A class of 28 students are put in groups
C) HCF and LCM of two numbers are
of 5 members. However, since every factors of each other
child must be in one group, some groups D) LCM of two numbers is a multiple of
are 6 in number. How many groups have their HCF
6 members? A) 4 B) 3 C) 2
D) 1 78. Given that: N=2× 2× 3× 5
which of the following is NOT
Study the following pattern, showing a factor of N?
perfect square numbers. Use it to A) 21 B) 20 C) 15 D) 12
answer questions 71 – 75.
1 = 1 79. How many 2-digit numbers can be
4 = 1+3 formed such that the sum of the digits is
9 = 1+3+5 12?
A) 4 B) 7 C) 9 D) 12
16 = 1+3+5+7
25 = 1+3+5+7+9 80. What is the unit digit of the number: (
15
10 – 7)?
71. Find the sum of the first 10 odd A) 7 B) 5 C) 3 D) 2
numbers.
A) 100 B) 121 C) 144 D) 169

72. How many odd numbers, starting from

one, will add up to 49? A) 4 B) 5
C) 6 D) 7

73. If (1 + 3 + 5 + ⋯ + n) = 81, then n = ?

A) 13 B) 15 C) 17 D) 19

74. How many perfect squares are there

from 1 to 70?
A) 11 B) 10 C) 9 D) 8

75. How many non-perfect square numbers

are there counting from 9 to 16?
A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8

76. Which one of the following statements

is NOT true?
A) Product is a common multiple of
multiplicand and multiplier

B) Multiplier is a factor of the product

C) Multiplicand is a factor of the
product
D) Product is a common factor of
multiplicand and multiplier
 Section B – Theory Questions
Instruction: Answer three out of the four questions. Each question has a total of 10
marks.
1. Arrange the following fractions in increasing order of size (from smallest to largest).
11 8 4 13 7
a) (3 marks)
15 15 15 15 15

3 3 3 3 3
b) (3 marks)
17 11 19 25 8

3 3 7 11 1
c) (4 marks)
5 4 10 20 2

2. Use the linear sequence: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 - to form an oder 3 magic square.
What is the magic 4 3 2 1 0
constant?
2 2 2 2 2
Figure X 16 8 4 2 1
3. Write down, in order
1 1 1 of size, the
multiples as stated below.
2 2 1 0
a) First 15 multiples of 2.
b) First 15 multiples of 3 3.
c) From (a) and (b), 4 4 1 0 0 write down the
common multiples of 5 2 and 3.
d) State the lowest 6 common multiple
obtained in (c).
7 4+2+1 1 1 1
8 8 1 0 0 0
4. Copy and complete figure X.
9
10
11 8+2+1 1 0 1 1
12
13
14
15
16 1 0 0 0 0