gce 2021 intermediate level business mathematics 1

gce 2021 intermediate level business mathematics 1

gce 2021 intermediate level business mathematics 1

1. From a cloth measuring 50m, a trader sold 9.85m, 15.95m and 13.95m. How many metres were left?
A 39.75m
B 11.25m
C 25.8m
D 10.25m
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2. In a school of 102 students, there are 34 boys. What is the ratio of boys to girls?
A 1:2
B 2:1
C 1:3
D 2:3
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3. The sum of 70,000FCFA is shared between MBAH and JOHN directly proportional to their ages 20 years and 15 years respectively. What is MBAH’s share?
A 35,000FCFA
B 30,000FCFA
C 20,000FCFA
D 40,000FCFA
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4. From the seats reserved for a party, 5% were vacant. How many seats were occupied from a total of 80,000 seats?
A 4,000 seats
B 76,000 seats
C 80,000 seats
D 84,000 seats
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5. A figure with all four sides equal is called ;
A Rectangle
B Parallelogram
C Square
D Trapezium
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6. The formula of simple interest expressed in months is ;
A

B

C

D

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7. A bag contains 20 balls of three colours. The probability of selecting a green ball is and that of a red ball is . How many yellow balls are there?
A 11
B 4
C 5
D 9
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7. In a party, 300 women paid 150,000FCFA and a total of 500,000FCFA was collected. How many men attended the party if a man is paying twice as a woman?
A 500
B 1000
C 350
D 700
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8. BOB bought a television set in Britain for £2,000 and spent 800,000FCFA for shipment. What will be the cost price of the television in FCFA if £1=900FCFA?
A 1,802,000FCFA
B 1,800,000FCFA
C 1,000,000FCFA
D 2,600,000FCFA
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9. A bill of 360,000FCFA was negotiated on the 01/10/2018. If this bill had to run for 63 days before maturing, then the maturity date of this bill will be ;
A 17/11/2018
B 03/12/2018
C 30/07/2018
D 03/11/2018
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10. Three partners; NGU, NJI and NDAH contributed 2,000,000FCFA, 3,000,000FCFA and 5,000,000FCFA respectively to a partnership. From a profit of 200,000FCFA, a reserve of 10% is kept and the balance shared proportionally to shares. NDAH received ;
A 90,000
B 54,000
C 36,000
D 18,000
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11. The median of the following scores 8, 12, 5, 3, 2 and 15 is ;
A 4
B 6.5
C 5
D 5.5
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12. The distance between two cars is 20km and the speed of the first car is 50km/h while that of the second car is 70km/h. How much time is needed for the second car to overtake the first?
A minutes

B 24 minutes
C 1 minute
D 60 minutes