PAPER 2:

Answer four questions only from this part

1. (a) Cleaner of a small office spent GH¢ 120.00 of his salary on food, Gh¢80.00 on rent,
GH¢40.00 on clothing, GH¢ 110.00 on transport and saved GH¢ 50.00. Draw a pie chart to
represent the data.

(b) Simplify the following

1 1
(i) 3+(2 3 + 1 6)
(ii) 5(p – 2g – r) + 3(p – g – 2r)

2. (a) The perimeter of a rectangular plot of land whose length is (2𝑥 + 5)𝑚 and width (𝑥 − 10)𝑚 is 80
m. Find the;
i. value of 𝑥
ii. area of the plot;
iii. cost of weeding the plot at GH¢ 0.24 per m2.

b. Find the difference between 851.654 and 372.809 using the expanded form

3. a. Simplify (15𝑝3 𝑞 2 × 12𝑥 5 𝑦 3 ) ÷ (36𝑝𝑞 × 45𝑥𝑦)

b. The ages of 5 singers are 55, 52, 50, 𝑦 and 48. If their mean age is 47, find the value of 𝑦.

c. The table shows the number of births recorded per month in two towns.

January February March April May

Months

Dobro 30 15 40 3 10

Adanse 45 13 50 5 10

Draw a double bar graph to represent the data.

4. a. A poultry farm has 35,467 boxes containing 678 white eggs. Find the number of eggs in the
farm using lattice method.

b. You have to buy two dozen of eggs priced at GH¢17.00, four loaves of bread at GH¢9.00 each,
and 13 bottles of juice at GH¢14.70 per bottle. How much money will you need to buy these
items?

c. Write an expression for the area of the shaded portion of the diagram below.
5. The sets P = {multiples of 3}, Q = {factors of 72} and R = {even numbers} are
subsets of U = {18≤ 𝑥 ≤ 36}.
a. List the elements of P,Q and R.
b. Find;
(i) 𝑃∩𝑄
(ii) 𝑄∩𝑅
(iii) 𝑃′ ∩ 𝑅
(iv) the relation between 𝑃 ∩ 𝑄 and 𝑄 ∩ 𝑅
c. The perimeter of a rectangular plot of land whose length is (2x+5) m and width
(x – 10) is 80 m. Find the
i. value of x;
ii. area of the plot;

6. a. Copy and complete the table for the relation

𝑥 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4

𝑦 11 5 1 -3

b. Using a scale of 2cm to 1 unit and 2cm to 2 units on the 𝑥 − axis and 𝑦 − axis respectively,
draw on a graph sheet two perpendicular axis 𝑜𝑥 and 𝑜𝑦.
c. i. Using the table, plot all the points of the relation 𝑦 = 5 − 2𝑥
ii. Draw a straight line through all the points.
d. Using the graph, find the
i. value of y when 𝑥 = 3.6
ii. value of 𝑥 when y = -2.6
iii. gradient of the line
 PAPER 1
OBJECTIVE TEST
[40 MARKS]
Each question is followed by four options lettered A to D. Find out the correct option for each
question and shade in pencil on your answer sheet the answer space which bears the same
letter as the option you have chosen. Give only one answer to each question
A. 36
1. Which of the following is a prime number? B. 24
A. 12 C. 25
B. 17 D. 29
C. 15
D. 24 8. Expand −𝑥 (3 − 2𝑥)
A. −2𝑥 2 − 3𝑥
2. Which number is the successor of 3621? B. 2𝑥 2 − 3𝑥
A. 3620 C. −2𝑥 2 + 3𝑥
B. 3622 D. 2𝑥 2 − 3𝑥
C. 3621
D. 3623 9. Find the product of 4𝑥𝑦 4 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥 4 𝑦𝑧
A. 4𝑥 3 𝑦 4 𝑧
3. Which number comes next in the skip B. 4𝑥 5 𝑦 5 𝑧
counting pattern 5, 10, 15, ………, 25? C. 4𝑥 2 𝑦 4 𝑧
A. 20 D. 4𝑥 3 𝑦 4
B. 22
C. 24 10. Subtract (7𝑥 − 3) from (5 − 3𝑥 )
D. 18 A. 10𝑥 − 8
B. 4𝑥 − 8
4. In a survey, 80 students like football, 60 like C. 8 − 10𝑥
basketball and 30 like both sports. How many D. 2 − 10𝑥
students were surveyed in total?
2
A. 90 11. Evaluate 3 (27 − 12) − 6
B. 110 A. 4
C. 170 B. 6
D. 120 C. 14
D. 16
5. Which equation represents the statement
"Twice a number decreased by 8 is equal 12. T he ratio of the ages of two sisters is 4:3. The
to14"? elder sister is 3 years older than the younger
A. 2𝑥 + 8 = 14 one. How old is the younger sister?
B. 2𝑥 − 8 = 14 A. 9 years
C. 2𝑥 − 14 = 8 B. 12 years
D. 2𝑥 + 14 = 8 C. 15 years
D. 18 years
6. Which of the following shapes has no parallel
sides? 13. Express 350 as a product of its prime factors.
A. Square A. 2 × 5 × 7
B. Rectangle B. 2 × 52 × 7
C. Rhombus C. 2 × 5 × 72
D. Trapezium D. 22 × 5 × 7

14. Which of the following is arranged in

7. Which number is the next prime number after ascending order?
23? A. −25, −64, 4,17
 B. −64, −25, 4, 17 C. 5m
C. −64, −25,17, 4 D. 9m
D. 17, 4, −25, −64 12𝑥 2 𝑦𝑧
21. Simplify
39𝑦 2 𝑧 2
15. A box contains 24 marbles, 10 of which are
blue and the rest are green. A boy picks a 𝑥2
A. 𝑦2
marble at random from the bag. What is the
probability that he picks a green marble?
1 4𝑥 2
A. 14 B. 13𝑦𝑧

1 𝑥2
B. C.
17 𝑦2𝑧 2

5 4𝑥 2
C. D.
12 13𝑦 2 𝑧 2

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D. 12 22. What is the value of 𝑥 if 10𝑥 = 1000
A. 1
16. Solve 5 − 2𝑥 = 𝑥 + 2 B. 2
A. 𝑥 = 1 C. 3
B. 𝑥 = −1 D. 4
C. 𝑥 = 3
D. 𝑥 = −3 23. Find the value of 𝑥 if (𝑥 − 3)2 = 16
A. 1
17. Given that 𝑍 = 595 and 𝑌 = 7,071, find the B. 3
sum of 𝑍 + 𝑌 C. 4
A. 6,466 D. 7
B. 7,566
C. 7,666 24. Find the circumference of a circle with radius
D. 12,021 3.5cm. Take (𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝜋 =
22
)
7

18. Find the image of 𝑇(5, −2) under the A. 11cm

B. 22cm
mapping (𝑥𝑦) → (2𝑦+𝑥
𝑥−2𝑦
) C. 35cm
A. (-1, 2) D. 38.5cm
B. (1, 9)
C. (8, 1) 25. Divide 1.612 by 0.4
D. (9, 1) A. 4.3
B. 4.03
19. What is the probability of obtaining a prime C. 0.403
number when a fair die is thrown? D. 0.43
2
A. 3
26. The sum of integer and 7 more than the next
B.
1 is 66. Find the integer.
2 A. 73
1
B. 29
C. 6 C. 59
D. 50
1
D. 3
27. If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal,
20. The diagonal of a rectangle is 5m long. If the the interior angles on the same side of the
length of the rectangle is 4m, find its width. transversal are
A. 3m A. Congruent
B. 4m B. Vertical
 C. Complementary A. 202,002,002
D. Supplementary B. 202,020,202
C. 202,022,202
28. What is the value of 6 in 95.683? D. 202,200,202
A. Ones
B. Tens 35. What is the expanded form of 786?
C. Tenths A. 700 + 80 + 6
D. Thousand B. 7000 + 800 +60
C. 600 + 80 + 6
𝑥
29. If 𝑥 + 6 = −6, find the value of D. 700 + 80 + 60
4
A. 3 36. Which of the following is a composite
B. −3 number?
A. 1
3 B. 2
C. 2 C. 3
3
D. 4
D. − 2
37. Which of the following numbers is a perfect
30. A school has 400 pupils of whom 160 are girls. square?
What is the ratio of boys to girls? A. 15
A. 2:5 B. 35
B. 3:2 C. 39
C. 5:2 D. 49
D. 8:5
38. The area of a square is 49𝑐𝑚2 . Find the
2
31. Given that 2𝑛 = 16, find the value of 𝑛 perimeter of the square.
A. 2 A. 7cm
B. 3 B. 14cm
C. 4 C. 28cm
D. 5 D. 49cm

32. Simplify 13 − (13 − 5) + 16 39. The longest chord of circle is the

A. 6 A. Circumference
B. 21 B. Diameter
C. −11 C. Sector
D. −14 D. Segment

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33. Evaluate 0.369 ÷ 0.0369 40. Express in decimal fraction
25
A. 0.100 A. 0.0408
B. 0.10 B. 0.048
C. 100 C. 0.408
D. 10.0 D. 0.48

34. Write two hundred and two million, two

thousand and two in figures