Only for the Supreme!

Instructions

1. This paper is in two sections (A and B)

2. You are expected to answer ALL questions in the two sections.
3. Use HB pencils ONLY to shade the correct answer from the options
labeled A to D.
4. Do not shade more than one option for each question.
5. Section A consists of 60 multiple-choice questions. Each question in
this section carries 1 mark.
6. Section B consists of 4 theory questions. You are expected to show
your workings clearly; each question is worth 10 marks.
SUPREME MATHEMATICS EDGE CHALLENGE (SMEC 2017)

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

9. There are n boys in a class and each

5. In a small community, for every 2 brings in m mangoes. They give y
boys there are 5 girls. If there are mangoes away. How many mangoes
400girls in the community how do they have left?
many boys are there? A.
A. 160 B.
B. 240 C.
C. 640 D.
D. 800

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10. If 2m of an electric pole is inside the 15. Simplify ( + ) ( )
4
ground and 5 of it is above the A. 2
ground, what is the entire length of B. 2
C. 2 2
the pole?
4 D.
A. 2 5
B. 8 16. Given that = 5 and = 9, find
C. 10 2
the value of
D. 12
405
A 4
11. If 800m is increased to 1km, in what 4
B. 10 5
ratio has it been increased? 225
A. 5:4 C.
4
405
B. 5:1 D. 14
C. 1:5
D. 800:1 17. A square has a perimeter of 36.
Find its area.
12. The average of 14, 16, 13, , and 19 A. 642
is 16. Find the value of ? B. 812
A. 17 C. 1442
B 18 D. 362
C. 19
D. 20 18. What is 7 months as a fraction of 2
years 3 months?
13. A baker bakes 10 dozen loaves a 7
A. 23
day. If he does not work on Sundays, 7
how many loaves will he make in 6 B. 32
weeks? 7
C. 27
A. 5020 7
B. 4320 D. 62
C. 4200
D. 504 19. Find the value of 0.92 0.12
A. 0.91
14. What is the value of 4 + 9 B. 1.08
C. 8.0
25 ?
A. 0 D. 0.8
B. 2
C. 4
D. 5

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20. A housewife spent 7 of her money 25. The Atlas batteries were tested to
1 find their average life. The times, in
in the market and 2 of the remainder
hours, that the batteries lasted were
in the shop. What is the fraction of 10.8, 10.6, 11.4, 8.9, 10.1, 10.6, 9.9,
her money left? 12.6, 10.5, 11.9. Find to the nearest
1
A. 7 tenth of an hour, the average life of
B.
2 the ten batteries.
7 A. 10.7 hours
5
C. B. 10.73 hours
7
3
D. 14 C. 10 hours
D. 11 hours
21. Calculate 110 (1011 +
1001 101 ) 26. In the figure below, = 2
A. 1011010 and = 3 .
B. 10010110 Calculate . W
C. 11010010
D. 11010100 V

22. Find the square root of 1010001

leaving your answer in base two. Y X
U

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

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 1 1
29. A farmer buys sheep at each 33. A board measures 2 2 by 1 4
and sells them at each. Which of and costs N750. Calculate the cost
the following is his profit in naira? of 12 of the board.
A. A. N240
B. B. N300
C. C. N340
D. D. N450
30. A square has the same perimeter as 34. Three lines meet at a point. If the
a 5 by 7 rectangle. Which of
sum of two of the angles formed is
the following is the area of the
square? 1630. Find the third angle.
A. 92
A. 17
B. 252
C. 352 B. 73
D. 362 C. 163
D. 197
31. Which of the following has only two
lines of symmetry? 35. The sum of 9 and a certain number
A. square is one and a half times the original
B. rectangle number. Find the number.
C. isosceles triangle
D. regular pentagon A. 9
B. 16
32. Calculate the area of the shape C. 18
22
below. Use = 7 . D. 12

36. The average of 4 boys is 13years. If

14m one them is 10years old. What is the
14m average of the remaining?

27m A. 11yrs
B. 12yrs
A. 3772 C. 13yrs
B. 3572 D. 14yrs
C. 3552
D. 3502

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37. A faulty watch gains 5 seconds an
hour. If it is set correctly at 8a.m one
morning, what time will it show
when the correct time is 8a.m the
following morning?
41. A post office charges 50k for a
telegram of 15 words or less. It
charges an extra 3k for every word
above 15 words. Find the cost of 30
words telegram.

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

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45. A girl spent half of his money on 50. If the mean of 6 numbers is 60 and
sweet and one-quarter on the mean of 5 students is 55, the
chocolate. If she has N6.00 left, how value of the 6th number is
much did she have initially? A. 95
A. 8.00 B. 85
B. 12.00 C. 75
C. 24.00 D. 65
D. 36.00
51. Which of the following has only one
46. If a trader sold a bucket at N2400.00 line of symmetry?
and made a profit of 20%, the cost A. Rhombus
price is B. Rectangle
A. 1920 C. Trapezium
B. 2000 D. Kite
C. 2100
D. 2300 52. What percentage of 4 is 5?
A. 125%
47. The least number by which 54 must B.120%
be multiplied to make a perfect C. 100%
square is D. 80%
A. 2
B. 3
C. 6 53. Evaluate 44 - 35
D. 9 A. 3
B. 4
48. A circular well of diameter 12m has C. 7
a path of 2m wide round it. The area D. 13
22
of the path is (use = 7 )
A. 88 m2 54. Round off 0.004365 to two
B. 66 m2 significant figures
C. 44m2 A. 0.004
D. 22m2 B. 0.0043
C. 0.0044
49. A worker spends of his salary on D. 0.44
food and of the remainder on
rent. If he has N1500 left, how 55. How many straight edges has a
much does he earn in a month? cube?
A. 6000 A. 4
B. 9000 B. 8
C. 10500 C. 10
D. 12000 D. 12

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56. The complement of 630 is
A. 360
B. 470
C. 470
D. 270

57. The product of ( + 2) and

( 3).
A. 2 5 6
B. 2 3 6
C. 2 2 6
D. 2 6

58. What is the first multiple of 29 that

is greater than 2000?

A. 2030
B. 2001
C. 2029
D. 2081

59. Find a number which has exactly 7

factors.
A. 12
B. 24
C. 30
D. 64

60. Write the fraction below in

1 3 5 11 7
ascending order 2 , 5 , 12 , 20 , 15 .
1 3 5 7 11
A. , , 12 , 15 , 20 .
2 5
11 5 7 1 3
B. , 12 , 15 , 2 , 5.
20
7 11 1 5 3
C. , 20 , 2 , 12 , 5 .
15
5 7 1 11 3
D. , 15 , 2 , 20 , 5 .
12

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 THEORY
Instruction: Answer all questions

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)


+
8 7 6

In the sum shown above, find the sum of 3 2

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)

Find the area of entire figure.

(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?

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