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Mathematics1994

BECE · 35 questions · Answers included

35 questions

1

Which of the following is the set of factors of 12?

2

Which of the following describes the relationship between the sets A and B in the Venn diagram below?

3

Mark is 30 years old. Yaw is half as old as Mark. Paul is 10 years older than Yaw. How old is Paul?

4

How many lines of symmetry does a rectangle have?

5

Which of the following is not a prime number?

6

If x = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, find the truth set of 2 x + 1 < 7

7

In how many years will ₵5,000.00 yield a simple interest of ₵1,000.00 at a rate of 5% per annum.

8

Make m the subject of the relation f = t s - m

9

Which property of arithmetic operation is illustrated by the statement: a × ( b + c ) = ab + ac ?

10

Simplify 15 9 ÷ 15 7

11

If 1 x = 1 1 2 , find x .

12

Calculate the size of an exterior angle of a regular pentagon.

13

Factorize x 2 – 5 x + 6

14

Kwame, Atsu and Kojo shared a profit of ₵500,000.00 in the ratio 1 : 4 : 3 respectively. How much did Atsu get?

15

Use the identity a 2 – b 2 = ( a + b )( a – b ) to evaluate 83 2 - 17 2

16

What is the probability of obtaining a prime number when a fair die is thrown once?

17

The following are the scores obtained by girls in a beauty contest: 12, 16, 19, 14, 17, 8, 11, 19.

18

Express 25 as a percentage of 75.

19

Find the value of m given that m = (3 6 ÷ 3 4 ) × 27

20

Express 0.0043216 in standard form.

21

Given that a = 2 and b = 3, evaluate (2 a + b) ( a – 2 b )

25

Write ₵35,632.00 correct to the nearest thousand cedis.

26

Solve for x if 2 x + 5 = 3 x – 7

27

Evaluate ( 2 3 - 1 4 ) ÷ 5 6 .

28

A boy walked 7 km on a bearing 060°. Which of the following diagrams shows his direction.

29

In the diagram, G 1 OH 1 is an enlargement of triangle GOH with scale factor k . If | GG 1 | = 5cm, | GO | = 2 cm and | G 1 H 1 | = 1 cm, what is the value of k ?

30

If 14 x = 9 ten , find x .

31

How many faces has a cuboid?

32

Which of the following is a factor of the expression ac – 2 bc + ad – 2 bd ?

33

Three boys weeded a piece of land in 4 hours. How long would it take 18 boys to weed the same piece of land weeding at the same rate?

35

Which of the following is the net of a cube?

36

Use the mapping below to answer the question below

37

In the diagram below, find the size of the angle marked e °.

39

The mean of the numbers 4, 3, 3, x is 5, find x

40

If a number is selected at random from the table below, what is the probability that the number is 5?