WASSCE Core / General Mathematics Practice Test (Quiz)

Ola’s average score after 3 tests is 88. What score on the 4th test would bring his average up to exactly 90?

If a positive whole number is divisible by 6 and by 9, then the number must be divisible by which of the following?

A printer can make print 3 pages every 2 seconds. At this rate, how many pages will be printed in 1 minute?

A printer can make print 3 pages every 2 seconds. At this rate, how many pages will be printed in 1 minute?

If the positive whole number x leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 8, what will the remainder be when x + 9 is divided by 8?

In the triangle below, if the measure of angle B is 52 degrees, what is the value of y?

In the  pentagon below,  each side is 1 cm. If a particle starts at point A and travels clockwise 183 cm along ABCDE, the particle will stop on which point?

What is the average  of all the multiples of ten from 10 to 190 inclusive?

If 6% of B is 7.5, then 36% of B equals

A building has 6 floors and the number of rooms on each floor is X. If each room has exactly C chairs, which of the following gives the total number of chairs in the building?

An electric company is owned by 9 women and 1 man, each of whom owns an equal share. If one of the women sells 1/2 of her share to the man, and another woman keeps 1/5 of her share and sells the rest to the man, what fraction of the business will the man own?

The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 30 cm. Which of the following cannot be the length of the base?

If @ is defined for all positive numbers a and b by a @ b = 2ab – b², then 
5 @ 2 =

The area of a circle 6 meters in diameter exceeds the combined areas of a circle 4 meters in diameter and a circle 2 meters in diameter by how many square meters?

Telephone calls cost 20 cents per minute for the first 15 minutes and 10 cents per minute thereafter. Which of the following represents the amount of money needed (in dollars) to talk x minutes (x greater than 15)?

What is the total amount of your purchases if you bought 5 shirts at $m and 2 more shirts at 50% off.

If a small cube (side=2) is filled twice and poured into a larger cube (side=4), what will be the height, in inches, of the water in the larger cube?

Which of the following equations gives the relationship between S and T in the table below?

Which of the following proportions is correct if 12 = pq ?

A car travels across Texas m miles at the rate of t miles per hour. How many hours does the trip take?

What is the value of (x + y)(x + y) if xy = -3 and x²Â + y²Â = 10?

The vertices of rectangle ABCD are A(-1,0), B(2,0), C(s, t), and D(-1,4). How long is diagonal AC?

Which of the following could be a value of x, in the diagram above?

Helpers are needed to prepare for the fete. Each helper can make either 2 large cakes per hour, or 35 small cakes per hour. The kitchen is available for 3 hours and 20 large cakes and 700 small cakes are needed. How many helpers are required?

Jo’s collection contains US, Indian and British stamps. If the ratio of US to Indian stamps is 5 to 2 and the ratio of Indian to British stamps is 5 to 1, what is the ratio of US to British stamps?

A 3 by 4 rectangle is inscribed in circle. What is the circumference of the circle?

 Two sets of 4 consecutive positive integers have exactly one integer in common. The sum of the integers in the set with greater numbers is how much greater than the sum of the integers in the other set?

If f(x) = (x + 2) / (x-2) for all integers except x=2, which of the following has the greatest value?

ABCD is a square of side 3, and E and F are the mid points of sides AB and BC respectively. What is the area of the quadrilateral EBFD ?

If n ≠ 0, which of the following must be greater than n?

I). 2n
II). n²
III). 2 – n

After being dropped a certain ball always bounces back to 2/5 of the height of its previous bounce. After the first bounce it reaches a height of 125 inches. How high (in inches) will it reach after its fourth bounce?

n and p are integers greater than 1
5n is the square of a number
75np is the cube of a number.
The smallest value for n + p is

145   300   610   1230 
In the above sequence every term after the first is formed by multiplying by x and then adding y, where x and y are positive integers. What is the value of x + y?

A confectioner has 500 mint, 500 orange and 500 strawberry flavored sweets. He wishes to make packets containing 10 mint, 5 orange and 5 strawberry sweets. What is the maximum number of packets of this type he can make?

If S is the sum of 8,6,4,2 and x, what must be the value of x for x to equal 1/5 S ?

25 per cent of 600 is equal to 15 per cent of what number?

What is the maximum number of points of intersection of four distinct lines in a plane?

 If one edge of a 6-inch ruler is to be marked in 1/10 inch units, how many marks will there be on the edge including the 0 and 6 inch marks?

If the area of the right triangle above is 72, what is the value of x?

Given that the sum of the odd integers from 1 to 99 inclusive is 2500, what is the sum of the even integers from 2 to 100 inclusive?

In a certain game of 50 questions, the final score is calculated by subtracting twice the number of wrong answers from the total number of correct answers. If a player attempted all questions and received a final score of 35, how many wrong answers did he give?

What positive value for k would make the following the equations of a pair of parallel lines on the same coordinate axes?
y = kx – 2 and ky = 9x – 7

What is the sum of all the positive integer factors of 12 ?

The average IQ of 4 people is 110. If three of these people each have an IQ of 105, what is the IQ of the fourth person ?

Of 60 students in a class 2/3 are girls, and 2/5 of the class are taking music lessons. What is the maximum number of girls that are not taking music lessons?

 If 2 ^{n + 1} = 8, what is the value of n ?

In the figure above, AD = AC = CB. 
If the value of y is 28, what is the value of x?

One gallon of fuel mixture contains antifreeze in the ratio of 5 parts fuel to one part antifreeze. To this is added half a gallon of mixture which is one third antifreeze and two thirds fuel. What is the ratio of fuel to antifreeze in the final mixture? (Grid your answer as a fraction: fuel/antifreeze)

What is the total surface area of 2 identical cubes which together have a volume of 1458 units?

Two dials O and P have pointers that start from the vertical position as shown. Pointer O rotates anticlockwise at a rate of 5 degrees per second and pointer P rotates clockwise at 9 degrees per second. How many complete revolutions will P have made when O completes 335 complete revolutions?

N {12,18,2,6}
P {1,4,2,3}
If n and p are to be selected at random from sets N and P respectively, what is the probability that n/2p will be a member of set P?

If f(x) = (12 – x)^3/2, and n = f(3), what is the value of 2n?

If an object travels at five feet per second, how many feet does it travel in one hour?

 What is the average (arithmetic mean) of all the multiples of ten from 10 to 190 inclusive?

A cubical block of metal weighs 6 pounds. How much will another cube of the same metal weigh if its sides are twice as long?

In a class of 78 students 41 are taking French, 22 are taking German. Of the students taking French or German, 9 are taking both courses. How many students are not enrolled in either course?

If f(x) = │(x² – 50)│, what is the value of f(-5) ?

Amy has to visit towns B and C in any order. The roads connecting these towns with her home are shown on the diagram. How many different routes can she take starting from A and returning to A, going through both B and C (but not more than once through each) and not travelling any road twice on the same trip?

In the figure above AD = 4, AB = 3 and CD = 9. What is the area of triangle AEC ?

2³⁰ + 2³⁰ + 2³⁰ + 2³⁰ =

( √2 – √3 )² =

The distance from town A to town B is five miles. C is six miles from B. Which of the following could be the distance from A to C?

I ). 11
II). 1
III). 7

If pqr = 1 , rst = 0 , and spr = 0, which of the following must be zero?

-20 , -16 , -12 , -8 …. 
In the sequence above, each term after the first is 4 greater than the preceding term. Which of the following could not be a term in the sequence?

 If f(x) = x² – 3, where x is an integer, which of the following could be a value of f(x)?

I).  6
II). 0
III). -6

For how many integer values of n will the value of the expression 4n + 7 be an integer greater than 1 and less than 200?

In the above correctly worked addition sum, A,B,C and D represent different digits, and all the digits in the sum are different. What is the sum of A,B,C and D?

12 litres of water are poured into an aquarium of dimensions 50cm length, 30cm breadth, and 40cm height. How high (in cm) will the water rise?
(1 litre = 1000cm³)

Six years ago Anita was P times as old as Ben was. If Anita is now 17 years old, how old is Ben now in terms of P

One side of a triangle has length 8 and a second side has length 5. Which of the following could be the area of the triangle?

I). 24
II). 20
III). 5

 A certain animal in the zoo has consumed 39 pounds of food in six days. If it continues to eat at the same rate, in how many more days will its total consumption be 91 pounds?

A perfect cube is an integer whose cube root is an integer. For example, 27, 64 and 125 are perfect cubes. If p and q are perfect cubes, which of the following will not necessarily be a perfect cube?

What is the length of the line segment in the x-y plane with end points at (-2,-2) and (2,3)?

n is an integer chosen at random from the set

{5, 7, 9, 11 }

p is chosen at random from the set

{2, 6, 10, 14, 18}

What is the probability that n + p = 23 ?

A dress on sale in a shop is marked at $D. During the discount sale its price is reduced by 15%. Staff are allowed a further 10% reduction on the discounted price. If a staff member buys the dress what will she have to pay in terms of D ?

All the dots in the array are 2 units apart vertically and horizontally. What is the length of the longest line segment that can be drawn joining any two points in the array without passing through any other point ?

If the radius of the circle with centre O is 7 and the measure of angle AOB is 100, what is the best approximation to the length of arc AB ?

Sheila works 8 hours per day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and 6 hours per day on Tuesday and Thursday. She does not work on Saturday and Sunday. She earns $324 per week. How much does she earn in dollars per hour?

ABCD is a parallelogram. BD = 2. The angles of triangle BCD are all equal. What is the perimeter of the parallelogram?

If the product of 6 integers is negative, at most how many of the integers can be negative?

If a positive integer n, divided by 5 has a remainder 2, which of the following must be true?

I).  n is odd
II). n + 1 cannot be a prime number
III). (n + 2) divided by 7 has remainder 2

A solid cube of side 6 is first painted pink and then cut into smaller cubes of side 2. How many of the smaller cubes have paint on exactly 2 sides?

Line l contains the points (3,1) and (4,4).
If line m is a different line, parallel to line l in the same coordinate plane, which of the following could be the equation of line m?

In the figure above the square has two sides which are tangent to the circle. If the area of the circle is 4a²π, what is the area of the square?

A triangle has a perimeter 13. The two shorter sides have integer lengths equal to x and x + 1. Which of the following could be the length of the other side?

A machine puts c caps on bottles in m minutes. How many hours will it take to put caps on b bottles?

 Paint needs to be thinned to a ratio of 2 parts paint to 1.5 parts water. The painter has by mistake added water so that he has 6 litres of paint which is half water and half paint. What must he add to make the proportions of the mixture correct?