Mathematics Past Questions And Answers
A school girl spends \(\frac{1}{4}\) of her pocket money on books and \(\frac{1}{3}\) on dress. What fraction remains?
- A. \(\frac{5}{6}\)
- B. \(\frac{7}{12}\)
- C. \(\frac{5}{12}\)
- D. \(\frac{1}{6}\)
If the word DONE is written under the word BALL, the word COLD is written above the word BALL and the word SING is written above the word COLD, how many words can be read diagonally?
- A. 2
- B. 3
- C. 4
- D. 5
Which of the following is not a factors of 2p2 - 2?
- A. 2
- B. p - 1
- C. p + 1
- D. 2p + 1
Given that P = {x : 1 \(\leq x \leq 6\)}, and Q = {x : 2 \(\leq x \leq 10\)} where x is an integer. Find n(P \(\cap\) Q)
- A. 5
- B. 6
- C. 8
- D. 10
Reach each number to two significant figures and then evaluate \(\frac{0.02174 \times 1.2047}{0.023789}\)
- A. 0
- B. 0.9
- C. 1.1
- D. 1.2
In the diagram, PQUV, PQTU, QRTU and QRST are parallelograms. |UV| = 4.8cm and the perpendicular distance between PR and VS is 5cm. Calculate the area of quadrilateral PRSV

- A. 96cm2
- B. 72cm2
- C. 60cm2
- D. 24cm2
Factory P produces 20,000 bags of cement per day while factory Q produces 15,000 bags per day. If P reduces production by 5% and Q increases production by 5%, determine the effective loss in the number of bags produced per day by the two factories
- A. 250
- B. 750
- C. 1000
- D. 1250
What is the volume of a solid cylinder of diameter 7cm and height 7cm? (Take \(\pi = \frac{22}{7}\))
- A. 38.5cm3
- B. 77cm3
- C. 269.5cm3
- D. 1078cm3
Find the gradient of \(xy^{2} + x^{2} y = 4xy\) at the point (1, 3).
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2014 THEORYThirty men take 20 days to complete a job working for 9hrs a day, how many hr(s) a day should 40 men to work to complete the job?
- (a) 8
- (b) 7.5
- (c) 7
- (d) 9

