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MATHEMATICS 1 & 2
2 HRS

MATHEMATICS 2 HOURS
Do not open this booklet until you are told to do so. While you are waiting, read and observe the
following instructions carefully. Write your name and index number in ink in the spaces provided
above.

This booklet consists of two papers; I and II. Answer Paper 2 which comes first in your answer
booklet and Paper 1 on your Objective Test answer sheet. Paper 2 will last for 1 hour after which
the answer book let will be collected. Do not start Paper until you are told to do so. Paper 1 will
last 60 minutes.
VERY IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS

1. Read through the questions, brainstorm and plan your answers before you finally answer
them. This is one of the good ways to manage your time in an exam and to do well.
2. Write clearly, use simple expressions and provide the best answers possible.
3. Write answers that provide additional information. If you just list answers or provide one
to three worded answers, your will fail the paper.
4. Do well to explain your answers to help earn full marks. Check your units of
measurement, spellings, grammar and read over your work before submitting.
5. Write question numbers boldly, start every new major question (answers) on a new page.
6. Do not rewrite the full question before answering. Only write the question number.
7. Show workings in all instances in section B if the question involves calculations.
 MATHEMATICS 1 HOUR

PAPER 2 - [60 MARKS]

Answer four questions only. All questions carry equal marks.
All working must be clearly shown. Marks will be not be awarded for correct answer without
corresponding working

1. (a) Simplify

(b) Find the equation of the straight line passing through the points with the coordinates A (-1, 5)
and B (5, -1).

(c) Given that simplify, then substitute the value to evaluate the following expression

2. (a) Abiba was given a discount of 15% of the price of a laptop selling for GH . How much did
she pay for the laptop?

(b) Solve for the truth set of

(c) If A (1, -2) and B (4, 2), find the magnitude of AB

3. (a) The marks obtained by some candidates in an examination are

28 35 41 47 62 70 81

59 60 61 62 70 80 68

67 68 69 70 78 57 66

74 76 77 78 54 64 73

88 90 94 51 64 72 83

(i) Construct a grouped frequency table for the distribution using the intervals 20 – 29, 30 –
39, 40 – 49 etc
(ii) What is the probability that a candidate chosen at random had 50 to 69 marks?

(b) Find the area of a semi-circle whose radius is 42 cm. (Take π )

(c) A ladder is 10 m long. The foot of the ladder is 6 m away from the base of a wall. How far up
is the wall?
4. (a) Solve using partitioning and place value system.

(b) The vector find the vector

(c) Use a pair of compasses and a ruler only, perform geometric construction of
(i) triangle ABC such that
(ii) the bisector of angle ACB to meet at T
(iii)Measure angle CTB

5. (a) Agogo standing at appoint P on a school soccer field, moved 25 steps due east to a point Q
and then moved 15 steps due south to a point R. Illustrate the movement of Agogo with a
diagram.

(b) In an examination, every student took English or Mathematics or both. Out of 400
candidates, 60% took English while 78% took Mathematics.
(i) Illustrate the information on a venn diagram
(ii) How many candidates took both subjects?

(c) Simplify leaving your answer in standard form.

6. (a) (i) Using a scale of 2cm to 1 unit on both axes, draw the points A(1, 3), B(3, 2) and C(2, 1)
(ii)Draw on the same graph sheet the image of under clockwise rotation of 90˚
about the origin where and
(iii)Draw also on the same graph the image of under anticlockwise rotation of 180˚
about the origin where and

(b) If M N, find the value of and given that M and N

 PAPER 1
OBJECTIVE TEST
Answer all questions
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

1. Which of the following is a prime D. Trapezium

number?
A. 12 7. Find the gradient of the line which passes
B. 17 through the points A(3, -2) and B(-3, 4)
C. 15 A. 1
D. 24 B. -4
C. 8
2. Which number is the successor of 3621? D. -1
A. 3620 8. Expand
B. 3622 A.
C. 3621 B.
D. 3623 C.
D.
3. Which number comes next in the skip
counting pattern 5, 10, 15, ………, 25? 9. Find the product of
A. 20
A.
B. 22
B.
C. 24
C.
D. 18
D.
4. In a survey, 80 students like football,
10. Subtract from
60 like basketball and 30 like both
A.
sports. How many students were
surveyed in total? B.
A. 90 C.
B. 110 D.
C. 170
D. 120 11. Evaluate
A. 4
5. Which equation represents the statement B. 6
"Twice a number decreased by 8 is equal C. 14
to14"? D. 16
A.
B. 12. T he ratio of the ages of two sisters is
C. 4:3. The elder sister is 3 years older than
D. the younger one. How old is the younger
sister?
6. Which of the following shapes has no A. 9 years
parallel sides? B. 12 years
A. Square C. 15 years
B. Rectangle D. 18 years
C. Rhombus
13. Simplify
D.

A.
18. Find the image of under the
B. mapping
A. (-1, 2)
B. (1, 9)
C. C. (8, 1)
D. (9, 1)
D.
19. What is the probability of obtaining a
14. Which of the following best describes the prime number when a fair die is thrown?
statement; “The locus of a point which
A.
moves so that the distance from two fixed
points is always equal”?
A. Bisecting of an angle B.
B. Perpendicular bisector
C. Circle
D. Two parallel lines C.
15. A box contains 24 marbles, 10 of which
are blue and the rest are green. A boy D.
picks a marble at random from the bag. 20. The diagonal of a rectangle is 5m long. If
What is the probability that he picks a the length of the rectangle is 4m, find its
green marble? width.
A. 3m
A.
B. 4m
C. 5m
B. D. 9m

C. 21. Simplify

D.
A.

16. Solve B.
A.
B.
C. C.
D.

17. Given that , find D.

22. Factorize completely

A.
A.
B.
B.
C.
D.
C.
23. In a right-angled triangle, if the length of
the two shorter sides are 3cm and 4cm,
what is the length of the hypotenuse?
D.
A. 5cm
B. 6cm 30. A school has 400 pupils of whom 160 are
C. 7cm girls. What is the ratio of boys to girls?
D. 8cm A. 2:5
B. 3:2
24. Find the circumference of a circle with C. 5:2
radius 3.5cm. Take D. 8:5
A. 11cm
B. 22cm 31. Given that , find the value of
C. 35cm A. 2
D. 38.5cm B. 3
C. 4
25. A car is travelling at 40 km per hour. D. 5
How far does it travel in hours?
32. Simplify
A. 16 km
A. 6
B. 80 km
B. 21
C. 90 km
C.
D. 100 km
D.
26. The sum of integer and 7 more than
the next is 66. Find the integer. 33. Evaluate
A. 73 A. 0.100
B. 29 B. 0.10
C. 59 C. 100
D. 50 D. 10.0

34. Write two hundred and two million,

27. If two parallel lines are cut by a two thousand and two in figures
transversal, the interior angles on A. 202,002,002
the same side of the transversal are B. 202,020,202
A. Congruent C. 202,022,202
B. Vertical D. 202,200,202
C. Complementary
D. Supplementary 35. What is the expanded form of 786?
A. 700+80+6
28. What is the value of 6 in 95.683? B. 7000 + 800 +60
A. Ones C. 600+80+6
B. Tens D. 700+80+60
C. Tenths
D. Thousand 36. Which of the following is a
composite number?
A. 1
29. If , find the value of B. 2
A. 3 C. 3
D. 4
B.
37. Which of the following numbers is
C. a perfect square?
 A. 15 A. Circumference
B. 35 B. Diameter
C. 39 C. Sector
D. 49 D. Segment

38. The area of a square is Find 40. Find the image F’ of the point
the perimeter of the square. when it is rotated 180˚
A. 7cm anticlockwise about the origin.
B. 14cm A.
C. 28cm B.
D. 49cm C.
D.
39. The longest chord of circle is the