KUMASI METRO – CONTEST 8
1. Multiply 5.25 by 0.2 ANS: 1.05
2. What is 0.35 × 0.7 ANS: 0.245
3. Multiply 0.6 by 0.15 ANS: 0.09
4. Find the product of 0.25 and 0.05. ANS: 0.0125
Given the ages of children who attended a clinic as follows 5, 1,3,1,1,7,5,1?
5. What is the modal age? ANS: 1
6. Find the median. ANS: 2
7. Calculate the mean age ANS: 3
8. What is the probability that a child picked at random is below 5 years? ANS: 5/8
9. Find the number of atoms present in the following compounds CaCl2 ANS: 3
10. How many atoms are present in 4 molecules of water? ANS: 12
11. How many oxygen molecules are present in the gas O2? ANS: 1
12. How many atoms are present in a Hydrochloric acid? ANS: 2
13. There are some activities we call cultural practices we carry out on the farm. Give just three of such
practices. ANS: Weeding, Staking, Pruning, Pest control, Disease control, Fertilizer application,
Irrigation, Mulching, Thinning out, Pricking out, Earthing up,
ROUND 3 – TRUE/FALSE
1. If the magnitude of a scale factor is greater than 1, then we have an enlargement. True
2. If the magnitude of a scale factor is a fraction, there is enlargement. False
3. If two figures are on the same side of enlargement, we have a negative scale factor. False
4. If two figures are at the opposite sides of a reduction or enlargement, then the scale factor is negative.
True
5. A contagious disease is one that is spread by contaminated food. False
6. A contagious disease is one which is spread by contaminated drinking water. False
7. A contagious disease is one which spread by contact with an infected person. True
8. A contagious disease includes sexually transmitted diseases. False
9. A parallelogram has no line of symmetry. True
10. A trapezium has no rotational symmetry. True
11. A parallelogram has no rotational [Link]
12. A kite has 1 of symmetry and 1 rotational symmetry. False
13. Food can travel up the phloem in the stem. True
14. Food can travel up or down in the phloem. True
15. Food can travel up or down the xylem tissue in the stem. False
16. Water and mineral can travel up the xylem in the stem. True
RIDDLES
1. I am a four sided figure.
You can say I am a quadrilateral.
My diagonals bisect each other perpendicularly.
My diagonals are not congruent
You can say I am equilateral. Who am I? ANS: Rhombus
KUMASI METRO – CONTEST 8
2. I am a structure found in plants and animals
I am actually a fluid filled membrane bound compartment
My fluid may contain salts, organic acids CO2 and sugars
In plants I am usually single and large while in animals I am small temporal and many.
Who am I? ANS: Vacuole
3. Part of me is a tractor.
The truth however is that I have nothing to do with agriculture.
I am mostly useful to surveyors
I measure to read in degrees.
Mind you I am not a thermometer.
Find me anywhere two lines meet. Who am I? ANS: Protractor
4. I am formed of three bones.
I am composed of three functional compartments.
I am one of the strongest and most important joints in the human body.
My movement is essential to many everyday activities like walking, standing, sitting and running.
I allow the lower leg to move relative to the thigh while supporting the body’s weight. Who am I?
ANS: Knee joint
