Mathematics Past Questions And Answers
In a class of 150 students, the sector in a pie chart representing the students offering physics has angle 12o. How many students are offering physics?
- A. 18
- B. 15
- C. 10
- D. 5
A regular polygon has 9 sides. What is the size of one of its exterior angles?
- A. 20°
- B. 40°
- C. 90°
- D. 140°
If loga270 - loga10 + loga \(\frac{1}{3}\) = 2, what is the value of a?
- A. 3
- B. 4
- C. 5
- D. 6
If x varies inversely as y and \(x = \frac{2}{3}\) when y = 9, find the value of y when \(x=\frac{3}{4}\)
- A. \(\frac{1}{18}\)
- B. \(\frac{8}{81}\)
- C. \(\frac{9}{2}\)
- D. 8
Integrate \((x - \frac{1}{x})^{2}\) with respect to x.
- A. \(\frac{1}{3}(x - \frac{1}{x})^{3} + c\)
- B. \(\frac{x^{3}}{3} - x\sqrt{\frac{1}{x^{3}}} + c\)
- C. \(\frac{x^{3}}{3} - 2x + \frac{1}{x^{3}} + c\)
- D. \(\frac{x^3}{3} - 2x - \frac{1}{x} + c\)
Without using tables, find the value of \(\frac{\sin 20°}{\cos 70°} + \frac{\cos 25°}{\sin 65°}\)
- A. 2
- B. 1
- C. 0
- D. -1
The table shows the distribution of hours spent at work by the employees of a factory in a week.
| Time (in hours) | 20 - 29 | 30 - 39 | 40 - 49 | 50 - 59 | 60 - 69 | 70 - 79 |
| No of persons | 8 | 11 | 23 | 25 | 8 | 5 |
(a) Draw an ogive for the distribution.
(b) Using your graph, estimate the (i) lower quartile (ii) median (iii) 40th percentile (iv) number of employees that spent at least 50 hours 30 minutes at work.
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The diagram below shows the bar charts representing the number of vehicles manufactured by a company in January, February and March, 1992.
(a) How many vehicles were produced in February?
(b) What fraction of the vehicles manufactured in February were cars?
(c) How many buses were produced altogether from January to March, 1992?
(d) What is the ratio in the lowest term of the number of lorries produced in February to that in March?
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2001 THEORYFind the median of this number set: 2, 15, 4, 3, 6, 11, 8, 9, 4, 16, 13
- A. 11
- B. 9
- C. 4
- D. 8
The table below shows the weekly profit in naira from a mini-market.
| Weekly profit (N) | 1-10 | 11-20 | 21-30 | 31-40 | 41-50 | 51-60 |
| Freq | 6 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 5 |
(a) Draw the cumulative frequency curve of the data;
(b) From your graph, estimate the : (i) median ; (ii) 80th percentile
(c) What is the modal weekly profit?
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