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Mathematics UTME / JAMB 1991 Indices, Logarithms & Surds
PMN and PQR are two secants of the circle MQTRN and PT is a tangent. If PM = 5cm, PN = 12cm and PQ = 4.8cm, calculate the respective lengths of PR and PT in centimeters
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7.3, 5.9
B
7.7, 12.5
C
12.5, 7.7
D
5.9, 7.3
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 1991 Plane Geometry, Polygons & Circle Theorems
PMN and PQR are two secants of the circle MQTRN and PT is a tangent. If PNR = 110o and PMQ = 55o, find MPQ
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A
40o
B
30o
C
25o
D
15o
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 1991 Plane Geometry, Polygons & Circle Theorems
In the figure above, find the value of y
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A
28o
B
122o
C
150o
D
152o
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 1991 Plane Geometry, Polygons & Circle Theorems
In this figure, PQ = PR = PS and SRT = 68o. Find QPS
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A
136o
B
124o
C
12o
D
68o
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 1991 Indices, Logarithms & Surds
In the figure, PQRS is a square of sides 8cm. What is the area of \(\bigtriangleup\)UVW?
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A
64 sq. cm
B
40 sq.cm
C
50 sq.cm
D
10 sq.cm
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 1991 Mensuration (Areas, Perimeters & Volumes)
Find the volume of the figure
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A
\(\frac{a \pi^2}{3} (x + 3y) \)
B
a\(\pi ^2\)y
C
\(\frac{a \pi ^2}{3}\)(y + x)
D
(\(\frac{1}{3} a \pi ^2 x + y\))
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1991 Plane Geometry, Polygons & Circle Theorems
Simplify : (i) \(2\frac{2}{3} - (2\frac{1}{2} - 1\frac{4}{5})\) (ii) \(\frac{3.25 - 1.64}{2.47 - 2.01}\)
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1991 Indices, Logarithms & Surds
(a) Using logarithm table, evaluate \(\frac{\sqrt[3]{1.376}}{\sqrt[4]{0.007}}\) correct to three significant figure. (b) Without using Mathematical tables, find the value of \(\frac{\log 81}{\log \frac{1}{3}}\).
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1991 Sets, Logic & Venn Diagrams
In a certain class, 22 pupils take one or more of Chemistry, Economics and Government. 12 take Economics (E), 8 take Government (G) and 7 take Chemistry (C). Nobody takes Economics and Chemistry and 4 pupils take Economics and Government. (a)(i) Using set notation and the letters indicated above, write down the two statements in the last sentence; (ii) Draw a Venn diagram to illustrate the information. (b) How many pupils take (i) both Chemistry and Government ? (ii) Government only?
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1991 Permutations, Combinations & Probability
A man has 9 identical balls in a bag. Out of these, 3 are black, 2 are blue and the remaining are red. (a) If a ball is drawn at random, what is the probability that it is (i) not blue? (ii) not red? (b) If 2 balls are drawn at random, one after the other, what is the probability that both of them will be (i) black, if there is no replacement? (ii) blue, if there is a replacement?
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1991 Plane Geometry, Polygons & Circle Theorems
ABCDE is a regular pentagon and a rectangle AXYE is drawn on the side AE such that the vertices X and Y lie on the sides BC and CD respectively. Calculate the size of (i) an interior angle of the pentagon ; (ii) < BXA.
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1991 Linear, Simultaneous & Quadratic Equations
(a) Solve the equation, correct to two decimal places \(2x^{2} + 7x - 11 = 0\) (b) Using the substitution \(P = \frac{1}{x}; Q = \frac{1}{y}\), solve the simultaneous equations : \(\frac{2}{x} + \frac{1}{y} = 3 ; \frac{1}{x} - \frac{5}{y} = 7\)
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1991 Fractions, Decimals, Percentages & Approximations
A man bought 5 reams of duplicating paper, each of which are supposed to contain 480 sheets. The actual number of sheets in the packets were : 435, 420, 405, 415 and 440. (a) Calculate, correct to the nearest whole number, the percentage error for the packets of paper; (b) If the agreed price for a full ream was N35.00, find, correct to the nearest naira, the amount by which the buyer was cheated.
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1991 Inequalities & Linear Programming
Using a scale of 2cm to 1 unit on the x- axis and 1cm to 1 unit on the y- axis, draw on the same axes the graphs of \(y = 3 + 2x - x^{2}; y = 2x - 3\) for \(-3 \leq x \leq 4\). Using your graph: (i) solve the equation \(6 - x^{2} = 0\); (ii) find the maximum value of \(3 + 2x - x^{2}\); (iii) find the range of x for which \(3 + 2x - x^{2} \leq 1\), expressing all your answers correct to one decimal place.
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1991 Plane Geometry, Polygons & Circle Theorems
(a) Prove that the angle which an arc of a circle subtends at the centre is twice that which it subtends at any point on the remaining part of the circumference. (b) In the diagram, O is the centre of the circle, < OQR = 32^\circ and < MPQ = 15^\circ. Calculate (i) < QPR ; (ii) < MQO.
medium Difficulty
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