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Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1990 Fractions, Decimals, Percentages & Approximations
A carpenter was told to make a rectangular desk with top of dimension 50cm by 40cm. The carpenter actually made the desk 60cm by 35cm. (a) Calculate the percentage error in the (i) length and the breadth ; (ii) area of the table top. (b) Find the product of the two errors in a(i).
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1990 Trigonometry, Elevation & Bearings
The feet of two vertical poles of height 3m and 7m are in line with a point P on the ground, the smaller pole being between the taller pole and P and at a distance of 20m from P. The angle of elevation of the top (T) of the taller pole from the top (R) of the smaller pole is 30^\circ. Calculate the : (i) distance RT ; (ii) distance of the foot of the taller pole from P, correct to three significant figures ; (iii) angle of elevation of T from P, correct to one decimal place.
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Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1990 Mensuration (Areas, Perimeters & Volumes)
(a) Find the volume of a right solid cone of base radius 4cm and perpendicular height 6cm. [\(\pi = 3.142\)] (b) A hemispherical tank of diameter which is 10m is filled by water issuing from a pipe of radius 20cm at 2m per second. Calculate, correct to three significant figures, the time, in minutes, it takes to fill the tank.
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1990 Statistics (Data Representation, Central Tendency & Dispersion)
The weights to the nearest kilogram, of a group of 50 students in a College of Technology are given below: 65, 70, 60, 46, 51, 55, 59, 63, 68, 53, 47, 53, 72, 53, 67, 62, 64, 70, 57, 56, 73, 56, 48, 51, 58, 63, 65, 62, 49, 64, 53, 59, 63, 50, 48, 72, 67, 56, 61, 64, 66, 52, 49, 62, 71, 58, 53, 69, 63, 59. (a) Prepare a grouped fraquency table with class intervals 45 - 49, 50 - 54, 55 - 59 etc. (b) Using an assumed mean of 62 or otherwise, calculate the mean and standard deviation of the grouped data, correct to one decimal place.
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1990 Plane Geometry, Polygons & Circle Theorems
(a) ABCD is a trapezium in which AB // DC, |AB| = 8cm, < ABC = 60^\circ, |BC| = 5.5cm and |BD| = 8.3cm. Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only, construct: (i) the trapezium ABCD ; (ii) a rectangle PQCD, where P, Q are two points AB; (b) Measure |AB| and |QB|.
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Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1990 Permutations, Combinations & Probability
(a) If a number is chosen at random from the integers 5 to 25 inclusive, find the probability that the number is a multiple of 5 or 3. (b) A bag contains 10 balls that differ only in colour; 4 are blue and 6 are red. Two balls are picked one after the other, with replacement. What is the probability that: (i) both are red? (ii) both are the same colour?
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1990 Inequalities & Linear Programming
The following is an incomplete table for the relation \(y = 2x^{2} - 5x + 1\) x -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 y 8 1 -1 26 (a) Copy and complete the table. (b) Using a scale of 2cm to 1 unit on the x- axis and 2cm to 10 units on the y- axis, draw the graph of the relation \(y = 2x^{2} - 5x + 1\) for \(-3 \leq x \leq 5\). (c) Using the same scale and axes, draw the graph of \(y = x + 6\). (d) Estimate from your graphs, correct to one decimal place : (i) the least value of y and the value of x for which it occurs ; (ii) the solution of the equation \(2x^{2} - 5x + 1 = x + 6\).
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1990 Sets, Logic & Venn Diagrams
In a class of 40 students, 25 speak Hausa, 16 speak Igbo, 21 speak Yoruba and each of the students speak at least one of the these three languages. If 8 speak Hausa and Igbo, 11 speak Hausa and Yoruba and 6 speak Igbo and Yoruba. (a) Draw a Venn diagram to illustrate the information, using x to represent the number of students that speak all three languages. (b) calculate the value of x.
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1990 Fractions, Decimals, Percentages & Approximations
An aeroplane flies from a town P(lat. 40^\circN, 38^\circE) to another town Q(lat. 40^\circN, 22^\circW). It later flies to a third town T(28^\circN, 22^\circW). Calculate the : (a) distance between P and Q along their parallel of latitude ; (b) distance between Q and T along their line of longitudes; (c) average speed at which the aeroplane will fly from P to T via Q, if the journey takes 12 hours, correct to 3 significant figures. [Take the radius of the earth = 6400km ; \(\pi = 3.142\)]
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1990 Statistics (Data Representation, Central Tendency & Dispersion)
The annual salary of Mr. Johnson Mohammed for 1989 was N12,000.00. He spent this on agriculture projects, education of his children, food items, saving , maintenance and miscellaneous items as shown in the pie chart How much did he spend on food items?
A
N9,700.00
B
N6,700.00
C
N2,000.00
D
N4,000.00
E
N2,300.00
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1989 Mensuration (Areas, Perimeters & Volumes)
The angle of a sector of a circle of diameter 8cm is 135°. Find the area of the sector [Take \(\pi\) = 22/7].
A
\(9\frac{3}{7}cm^2\)
B
\(12\frac{4}{7}cm^2\)
C
\(18\frac{6}{7}cm^2\)
D
\(25\frac{1}{7}cm^2\)
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 1989 Statistics (Data Representation, Central Tendency & Dispersion)
In a class of 30 students, the marks scored in an examination are displayed in the histogram. What percentage of the student scored more than 40%?
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A
14%
B
40%
C
46\(\frac{3}{4}\)%
D
53\(\frac{1}{3}\)%
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1989 Indices, Logarithms & Surds
If 3loga + 5loga - 6loga = log64, what is a?
A
4
B
6
C
8
D
16
E
32
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1989 Sequences & Series (AP & GP)
If the second and fourth term of a G.P are 8 and 32 respectively,what is the sum of the first four terms?
A
28
B
40
C
48
D
60
E
68
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 1989 Plane Geometry, Polygons & Circle Theorems
In the diagram above, TPS is a straight line, PQRS is a parallelogram with base QR and height 8cm. |QR| = 6cm and the area of triangle QST is 52cm2. Find the area of \DeltaQPT
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A
39cm2
B
28cm2
C
24cm2
D
21cm2
E
19cm2
medium Difficulty
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