MATHEMATICS QUESTIONS

5. If
X 10 =12145 find x
1 1 2 2
3 −1 × +1
1. Simplify 3 4 3 5 A. 124. B. 121. C. 184. D. 180.

6.
10112 +X 7 =2510 solve for X.
17 9 1 11
2 . 3 . 4 . 4 . A. 14. B. 20. C. 24. D. 25.
A. 30 B. 10 C. 10 D. 36
7. If
314 10−2567 =340 x find for X

A. 7. B. 8. C. 9. D. 10.

3 1 8. Convert 241 in base 5 to base 8

4 −6
4 4 178 . B. 1078 . C. 1768 . D. 2418
A.
1 1
4 of 1
2. Simplify 5 4 9. If U = {s, p, l, e, n, d, o, u, r}
X = {s, p, e, n, d}, Y = { s, e, n, o, u,} and

Z = {P, n, o, u, r} find X ∩( Y ∪Z )
'
7 2 10 10
−7 . − . − . .
A. 8 B. 7 C. 21 D. 21 A. {p, o, u, r}. B. {s, p, d, r}. C. {p, n, d}.
D. {n, d, u}
10. Four members of a school first eleven

3. Evaluate
÷
((
1 5 9
3 7 10
−1+
3
4 )) cricket team are also members of the first
fourteen rugby team. How many boys play
28 13 39 84 for at least one of the two teams?
. . . .
A.39 B. 84 C. 28 D. 13 A. 25 .B. 12. C. 21. D. 3.
11. A survey of 100 students in an institution
4. Three boys shared some oranges. The first shows that 80 students speak Hausa and
1 20 students speak Igbo, while only 9
received 3 of the oranges, the second students speak both languages. How many
2 students speak neither Hausa nor Igbo?
received 3 of the reminder. If the third
A 0. B. 9. C. 11. D. 20.
boy receives the remaining 12 oranges,
12. In a class of 20 students, 8 drink coke, 13
how many oranges did they share?
drink Fanta and 5 drink coke only. How
A. 60. B. 54. C. 48. D. 42.
many do not drink either coke or Fanta?
 A. 3. B. 8. C. 2. D.5. 17. find the number of committees of three
13. In a class of 40 students, each students that can be formed consisting of two men
offer at least one of physics and chemistry. and one woman from four men and three
If the number of students that offer women.
physics is three times the number that A. 3. B. 6. C. 18. D. 24.
offer both subject and the number that 18. How many three digit numbers can be
offer chemistry is twice the number that formed from 32564 without any digit being
offer physics. Find the number of students repeated?
that offer physics only. A. 60. B. 120. C. 10. D. 20.
A. 15. B. 25. C. 5. D. 10. 19. In how many ways can 6 persons sit in a
14. In a small village of 500 people 350 speak ring ?
the local language while 200 speak pidgin A. 60. B. 100. C.120. D. 240.
English. What percentage of the 6
Cr 1
=
6 6
population speak both? 20. If Pr find the value of r
A. 30%. B. 50%. C. 10%. D. 14% A. 1. B. 3. C. 5. D. 6.
15. Five people are to be arranged in a row for 21. In how many ways can the word
a group photograph. How many mathematics be arranged
arrangements are there if a married couple 11! 11! 11! 11!
. .
in the group insist on sitting next to each A. 9!2! B. 9!2!2! . C. 2!2!2! D. 2!2!
other? 22. If the 6th term of an arithmetic progression
A. 48. B. 24. C. 20. D. 10. is 11 and the first term is 1 find the
16. A student Has 5 courses to take from common difference.
mathematics and physics . There are 4 12 5
. .
courses in mathematics and 3 in physics A. 5 B. 3 C. −2 . D. 2.
which he can he can choose from at will. In 23. The sixth term of an arithmetic progression
how many ways can he choose his courses is half of its twelfth term. The first term is
so that he takes exactly two courses in equal to
physics? A. zero. B. half of the common difference.
A. 18. B. 12. C. 10. D7. C. Double the common difference.
 D. the common difference . 31. IF K +1 , 2 K−1 , 3 K +1 are three
24. If the 9th term of an AP is five times the 5th consecutive terms of a geometric progression,
term, find the relationship between a and d. find the possible value of the common ratio.

A. 3 a+5 d =0 . B. a+ 2 d=0 . 5
A. 0, 8. B. 1, 3 C. 2, 3. D. 1, 1.
C. 2 a+ d=0 . D. a+ 3 d=0 .
32. The sum of the first two terms of a
25. If the sum of 8th and 9th terms of an
geometric progression is x and the sum of
arithmetic progression is 72 and the 4th
the last two terms is y. if there are n terms
terms is −6 , find the common difference.
in all, then the common ratio is
2 1
6 . 9
() ()
1 1
A. 4. B. 8. C. 3 D. 3 x y x n−2 y n−1
.
26. The 4th term of an AP is 13 while the 10th A. y . B. x C. y D. x
term is 31. Find the 21st term. 34. find the mean deviation of 1, 2, 3 and 4.
A. 2.5. B. 2.0. C. 1.0. D. 1.5
A. 175. B. 85. C. 64. D.45.
35. Find the standard deviation of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
27. If −8, m, n, 19 are in arithmetic
A. 2 . B. 3. C. 6 . D. 10 .
progression, find (m, n)
2
36. The graph of f ( x )=x −5 x+6 cross the
A. 1, 10. B. 2, 10. C. 3, 13. D. 4, 16.
x-axis at the points
28. If P+1 , 2 P−10 , 1−4 P2 are three A. (−6, 0 ) , (−1, 0 ) . B. (−3, 0 ) , (−2, 0 ) .
consecutive terms of an arithmetic C. (−6, 0 ) , (1, 0 ) . D. ( 2, 0 ) , ( 3, 0 ) .
progression, find the possible value of P.
37. Solve the equation y−11 √ y+24=0
4 11 A. 8, 3. B. 64, 9. C. 6, 4. D. 9, −8
−3, . − ,2
A. −4 , 2. B. 11 C. 4 . D. 5, -3.
38. Simplify the expression 5 √ 32−2 √18
29. For an arithmetic sequence, the first term
A.
3 √ 2. B. 14 √ 2. C. 26 √ 2. D. 120 √ 2.
is 2 and the common difference is 3. Find
9
the sum of the first 11 terms. √ 48− + √ 75
39. Simplify √3
A. 157. B. 187. C. 197. D. 200. A.5 √ 3. B. 6 √ 3. C. 8 √ 3. D. 18 √ 3. (
30. If the 7th term of An AP is twice the third 40. Express in surd form and rationalize
term and the sum of the first four terms is 1+tan 60 0
1−tan60 0
42, find the common difference.
A. 1−2 √ 3. B. −2− √3 . C. 3+ √ 2 .
A. 1. B. 2. C. 3. D. 6.
 D. −1+2 3 √ 
1
cos 2 x  k
2 D.  cos 2 x  k
41. Given that θ is an acute angle and C.
m
sin θ= ,
n find cot θ 48. Evaluate 
2 x 2

1
2

 x dx

√ √
n2−m2 ( n+m )( n−m ) 1 1 1 1
. 4 . 3 . 7 . 5 .
A. m B. m A. 2 B. 2 C. 2 D. 4

√
m n
x
2
. sin xdx
49.
C. √ n −m D. n −m
2 2 2 2
A.  cos x  2 x sin x  C. B.  cos x  2  C.
42. Solve the equation for all positive value of
2
θ less than 3600 : 3 tan θ+ 2=−1 C. x cos x  2 x sin x  2 cos x  C
A. 1350 or 3150. B. 450 or 1350. 2
C. 3150. Or 450. D. 3150 or 1800 D.  x cos x  2 x sin x  2 cos x  C
E. 3600 or 3150 50. 7 pupils of average age 12 years leave a
1 class of 25 pupils of average age 14 years. If
sin θ=− 6 new pupils of average age of 11 years join
43. If 2 and 0 0 <θ<270 , find θ
the class, what will be the average age of
A. 300. B. 600. C. 1200. D. 1500. E. 2100
the pupils now in the class?
d
 
log e 4 x 3  2 x  A. 13years. B. 12years 7 1/2months.
44. dx is equal to
C. 13years 10months. D. 11years.
12 x  2 43x 2  2 x 4x2  2
2
. . .
A. 4 x B. 7x C. 7 x  6

12 x 2  2
3
D. 4 x  2 x
. ( 23 − 15 )− 13 of 25
1
3−
1
dy 1
2
45. if y 3 sin  4 x , dx is
51. Simplify
1 1 1
A.
12 x cos 4 x . B.  12 x cos  4 x . 7 B. 7 C. 3 . D. 3. E. 5
.  12 cos  4 x . D.  12 sin  4 x .
A.
C
x 2 5 2
3 × ×
46. Differentiate cos x with respect to x. 3 6 3
2 11 3 2
A. 1  x sec x tan x. B. 1  sec x × ×
52. Simplify 15 4 27
C. cos x  x tan x. D. sec x  x sec x tan x
2 1
16 4
47. Evaluate 
sin 2 xdx 3 . B. 3 . C. 50. D. 30
A
1
cos 2 x  k
A cos 2 x  k . B. 2
 1 1 5 1 7
. . . .
53. A student spent 5 of his allowance on A.12 B. 36 C. 6 D. 36
1
62. If a number is chosen at random from the
books, 3 of the remainder on food and
kept the rest for contingences. What set {x : 4 x 15} . Find the probability
fraction was kept? that it is a multiple of 3 or a multiple of 4.
7 8 2 4
. 1 5 7 11
15 B. 15 . C. 3 D. 5 . . .
A. A. 2 B. 12 C. 12 D. 12

54. If
log 10 2=0 . 3010 and log10 7=0 .8451
63.
evaluate
log 10 280
Age in years 10 11 12
0.4471. B. 2.4471. C. 1.4471. D. 1.1071.
Number of pupils 6 27 7
log 54+log 6−log 4 , without The table above shows the number of pupil
55. Evaluate 3 3 3
in each age group in a class. What is the
using tables. A. 3. B. 4. C. 9. D. 81.
probability that a pupil chosen at random is at
least 11 years old?
log √2 16=x
56. Solve the equation
27 17 3 33
A. 8. B.4. C. 2. D. √ 2 . . . .
A 40 B. 20 C. 30 D. 40
57. The 4th of an AP is 13 while the 10th term is
31. Find the 24th term.
  2 0 4
A. 73. B. 89. C. 75. D.69  
M  0  1 6 
58. The probability of picking letter T from the
 5 6 3 
word OBSTRUCTION is 64. Given matrix  find
A. 1/11. B. 2/11. C. 3/11. D. 4/11 T
M  2M
59. Find the probability that a number picked at
random from the set {43, 44, 45, …..60} is a   4 2 1   6 0 13 
   
prime number  6 0 5  0  3 18 
2 1 2 7  0 6 2  14 18 9 
. . . . A.   B.  
A. 3 B. 3 C. 9 D. 9
60. A bag contains 5 black, 4 white and x red
marbles. If the probability of picking a red
5 2 6   4 0 8 
2    
, 0 1 1   0  2  16 
marble is 3 find the value of x  3 4  7  10 12 6 
C.   D. 
A. 18. B. 10. C. 4. D. 6
 5  6  x  7 
61. Two perfect die are thrown together. Determine      
65. Find y if  2  7   y    11
the probability of obtaining a total score of 8.

A. 8. B. 5. C. 3. D. 2
 70. Three boys shared some oranges. The

66. The binary operation on the set of real 1

mn first received 3 of the oranges, the
m*n 
numbers is defined by 2 for all 2
m, n  R . If the identity element is 2, find second received 3 of the reminder. If
the inverse of  5.
the third boy receives the remaining 12
4 2 oranges, how many oranges did they
  .
A. 5 . B. 5 C. 4. D. 5
share?
A. 60. B. 54. C. 48. D. 42.

1 1 2 2
3 −1 × +1
67. Simplify 3 4 3 5 71. If
X 10 =12145 find x

A. 124. B. 121. C. 184. D. 180.

17 9 1 11 10112 + X 7 =2510 solve for X.
2 . 3 . 4 . 4 . 72.
A. 30 B. 10 C. 10 D. 36
A. 14. B. 20. C. 24. D. 25.

73. If
314 10−2567 =340 x find for X

3 1 A. 7. B. 8. C. 9. D. 10.
4 −6
4 4 74. Convert 241 in base 5 to base 8
1 1
4 of 1 178 . B. 1078 . C. 1768 . D. 2418
68. Simplify 5 4 A.
75. If U = {s, p, l, e, n, d, o, u, r}

7 2 10 10 X = {s, p, e, n, d}, Y = { s, e, n, o, u,} and

−7 . − . − . .
8 B. 7 C. 21 D. 21
A. Z = {P, n, o, u, r} find X ∩( Y ∪Z )
'

A. {p, o, u, r}. B. {s, p, d, r}. C. {p, n, d}.

D. {n, d, u}

69. Evaluate
÷
((
1 5 9
3 7 10
−1+
3
4 )) 76. Four members of a school first eleven
cricket team are also members of the
28 13 39 84 first fourteen rugby team. How many
. . . .
A.39 B. 84 C. 28 D. 13 boys play for at least one of the two
teams?
A. 25 .B. 12. C. 21. D. 3. 81. Five people are to be arranged in a row
77. A survey of 100 students in an for a group photograph. How many
institution shows that 80 students speak arrangements are there if a married
Hausa and 20 students speak Igbo, while couple in the group insist on sitting next
only 9 students speak both languages. to each other?
How many students speak neither A. 48. B. 24. C. 20. D. 10.
Hausa nor Igbo? 82. A student Has 5 courses to take from
A 0. B. 9. C. 11. D. 20. mathematics and physics . There are 4
78. In a class of 20 students, 8 drink coke, courses in mathematics and 3 in physics
13 drink Fanta and 5 drink coke only. which he can he can choose from at will.
How many do not drink either coke or In how many ways can he choose his
Fanta? courses so that he takes exactly two
A. 3. B. 8. C. 2. D.5. courses in physics?
79. In a class of 40 students, each students A. 18. B. 12. C. 10. D7.
offer at least one of physics and 83. find the number of committees of three
chemistry. If the number of students that can be formed consisting of two
that offer physics is three times the men and one woman from four men
number that offer both subject and the and three women.
number that offer chemistry is twice the A. 3. B. 6. C. 18. D. 24.
number that offer physics. Find the 84. How many three digit numbers can be
number of students that offer physics formed from 32564 without any digit
only. being repeated?
A. 15. B. 25. C. 5. D. 10. A. 60. B. 120. C. 10. D. 20.
80. In a small village of 500 people 350 85. In how many ways can 6 persons sit in a
speak the local language while 200 ring ?
speak pidgin English. What percentage A. 60. B. 100. C.120. D. 240.
of the population speak both? 6
Cr 1
=
A. 30%. B. 50%. C. 10%. D. 14%
6
Pr 6
86. If find the value of r
A. 1. B. 3. C. 5. D. 6.
87. In how many ways can the word 93. If −8, m, n, 19 are in arithmetic
mathematics be arranged progression, find (m, n)
11! 11! 11! 11! A. 1, 10. B. 2, 10. C. 3, 13. D. 4, 16.
. .
A. 9!2! B. 9!2!2! . C. 2!2!2! D. 2!2!
94. If P+1 , 2 P−10 , 1−4 P2 are three
88. If the 6th term of an arithmetic
consecutive terms of an arithmetic
progression is 11 and the first term is 1
progression, find the possible value of P.
find the common difference.
4 11
12 5 −3, . − ,2
. . A. −4 , 2. B. 11 C. 4 . D. 5, -3.
A. 5 B. 3 C. −2 . D. 2.
95. For an arithmetic sequence, the first
89. The sixth term of an arithmetic
term is 2 and the common difference is
progression is half of its twelfth term.
3. Find the sum of the first 11 terms.
The first term is equal to
A. 157. B. 187. C. 197. D. 200.
A. zero. B. half of the common difference.
96. If the 7th term of An AP is twice the third
C. Double the common difference.
term and the sum of the first four terms
D. the common difference .
is 42, find the common difference.
90. If the 9th term of an AP is five times the
A. 1. B. 2. C. 3. D. 6.
5th term, find the relationship between a
97. IF K +1 , 2 K−1 , 3 K +1 are three
and d.
consecutive terms of a geometric
A. 3 a+5 d =0 . B. a+ 2 d=0 .
progression, find the possible value of the
C. 2 a+ d=0 . D. a+ 3 d=0 .
common ratio.
th th
91. If the sum of 8 and 9 terms of an 5
A. 0, 8. B. 1, 3 C. 2, 3. D. 1, 1.
th
arithmetic progression is 72 and the 4

terms is −6 , find the common 98. The sum of the first two terms of a
difference. geometric progression is x and the sum
2 1 of the last two terms is y. if there are n
6 . 9
A. 4. B. 8. C. 3 D. 3 terms in all, then the common ratio is
92. The 4th term of an AP is 13 while the 10th

() ()
1 1
st x y x n−2 y n−1
term is 31. Find the 21 term. .
A. y . B. x C. y D. x
A. 175. B. 85. C. 64. D.45.
99. find the mean deviation of 1, 2, 3 and 4.
 A. 2.5. B. 2.0. C. 1.0. D. 1.5 1
sin θ=−
100. Find the standard deviation of 5, 4, 3, 2, 108. If 2 and 0 0 <θ<270 , find
1 θ
A. 300. B. 600. C. 1200. D. 1500. E. 2100
A. 2 . B. 3. C. 6 . D. 10 .
2
d
dx
 
log e 4 x 3  2 x 
101. The graph of f ( x )=x −5 x+ 6 cross 109. is equal to
the x-axis at the points 12 x  2 43x 2  2 x 4x2  2
2
. . .
A. (−6, 0 ) , (−1, 0 ) . B. (−3, 0 ) , (−2, 0 ) . C. 7 x  6
A. 4 x B. 7x

C. (−6, 0 ) , (1, 0 ) . D. ( 2, 0 ) , ( 3, 0 ) . 12 x 2  2
.
102. Solve the equation y−11 √ y+24=0 3
D. 4 x  2 x

A. 8, 3. B. 64, 9. C. 6, 4. D. 9, −8
dy
103. √ 32−2 √18
Simplify the expression 5 110. if y 3 sin  4 x , dx is

A.
3 √ 2. B. 14 √ 2. C. 26 √ 2. D. 120 √ 2. A.
12 x cos 4 x . B.  12 x cos  4 x .

.  12 cos  4 x . D.  12 sin  4 x .
9
√ 48− + √ 75 C
104. Simplify √3
x
A.5 √ 3. B. 6 √ 3. C. 8 √ 3. D. 18 √ 3. (
111. Differentiate cos x with respect to x.
105. Express in surd form and rationalize 2
0 A. 1  x sec x tan x. B. 1  sec x
1+tan 60
C. cos x  x tan x. D. sec x  x sec x tan x
1−tan60 0
A. 1−2√ 3. B. −2− √3 . C. 3+ √ 2 . 112. Evaluate sin 2 xdx
D. −1+2 √ 3 1
cos 2 x  k
106. Given that θ is an acute angle and A cos 2 x  k . B. 2
m 1
sin θ= ,  cos 2 x  k
n find cot θ C. 2 D.  cos 2 x  k

A. √n2−m2
m
.
B. m√
( n+m )( n−m )
113. Evaluate 
2 x 2

1
2
 x dx

√
m n 1 1 1 1
. 4 . 3 . 7 . 5 .
C. √ n −m D. n −m A. 2 B. 2 C. 2 D. 4
2 2 2 2

107. Solve the equation for all positive value

x
2
sin xdx
of less than 3600 : 3 tan θ+ 2=−1
θ 114.
A. 1350 or 3150. B. 450 or 1350. A.  cos x  2 x sin x  C. B.  cos x  2  C.
C. 3150. Or 450. D. 3150 or 1800 2
E. 3600 or 3150 C. x cos x  2 x sin x  2 cos x  C
2
D.  x cos x  2 x sin x  2 cos x  C
115. 7 pupils of average age 12 years leave a
class of 25 pupils of average age 14 years. If
6 new pupils of average age of 11 years join
the class, what will be the average age of
the pupils now in the class?
A. 13years. B. 12years 7 1/2months.
C. 13years 10months. D. 11years.