Mathematics Past Questions And Answers
From the top of a vehicle cliff 20m high, a boat at sea can be sighted 75m away and on the same horizontal position as the cliff. Calculate, correct to the nearest degree, the angle of depression of the boat from the top of the cliff.
- A. 56°
- B. 75°
- C. 16°
- D. 15°
A box contains 2 white and 3 blue identical marbles. If two marbles are picked at random, one after the other without replacement, what is the probability of picking two marbles of different colors?
- A. 2/3
- B. 3/5
- C. 2/5
- D. 7/20
Look at this series: 22, 21, 23, 22, 24, 23, ... What number should come next?
- A. 22
- B. 24
- C. 25
- D. 26
An object is thrown vertically upwards from the top of a cliff with a velocity of \(25ms^{-1}\). Find the time, in seconds, when it is 20 metres above the cliff. \([g = 10ms^{-2}]\).
- A. 0 and 1
- B. 0 and 4
- C. 0 and 5
- D. 1 and 4
Find the radius of the circle \(2x^2 + 2y^2 - 4x + 5y + 1 = 0\)
- A. \(\frac{\sqrt33}{4}\)
- B. \(\frac{\sqrt5}{6}\)
- C. \(\frac{5}{6}\)
- D. \(\frac{33}{4}\)
If sin θ = - \(\frac{3}{5}\) and θ lies in the third quadrant, find cos θ
- A. \(\frac{4}{5}\)
- B. - \(\frac{5}{4}\)
- C. \(\frac{5}{4}\)
- D. - \(\frac{4}{5}\)
(a) The first term of an Arithmetic Progression(AP) is 3 and the common difference is 4. Find the sum of the first 28 terms.
(b) Given that \(x = \frac{2m}{1 - m^{2}}\) and \(y = \frac{2m}{1 + m}\), express 2x - y in terms of m in the simplest form.
(c) The angles of pentagon are x°, 2x°, 3x°, 2x° and (3x - 10)°. Find the value of x.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2002 THEORY\(\begin{array}{c|c} \text{Average hourly earnings(N)} & 5 - 9 & 10 - 14 & 15 - 19 & 20 - 24\\ \hline \text{No. of workers} & 17 & 32 & 25 & 24\end{array}\)
Estimate the mode of the above frequency distribution
- A. 12.2
- B. 12.27
- C. 12.9
- D. 13.4
The slope of the tangent to the curve y = 3x2 - 2x + 5 at the point (1, 6) is
- A. 4
- B. 1
- C. 6
- D. 5
Simplify \(\frac{\log \sqrt{27}}{\log \sqrt{81}}\)
- A. 3
- B. 2
- C. \(\frac{3}{2}\)
- D. \(\frac{3}{4}\)

