BECE Mathematics Past Questions 2015

The hypotenuse and a side of a right-angled triangle are 13 cm and 5 cm respectively. Find the length of the third side.

A hall which is 20 m long is represented on a diagram as 10 cm long. What is the scale of the diagram?

What is the place value of 7 in 24.376 ?

If M = {multiples of 4 between 10 and 25} and N = {even numbers between 11 and 23}, find M ∪ N

Given that set P = {m, n, o, p}, find the number of subsets of P.

List the members of the set Q = {prime factors of 30}

Find the rule for the following mapping

Express 1205 as a number in base 10

If p × q × r = 1197, and p = 19, q = 3, find r

How many integers are within the interval – 5 < x < 7 ?

Divide 1.612 by 0.4

If 5 boys took 14 days to cultivate a piece of land, how long will it take 7 boys working at the same rate to cultivate the land ?

A man invested GHC 800.00 in a bank at a simple interest rate of 5% per annum. Find his total amount in the bank at the end of one year.

John sold a car for GHC 60,000.00 and made a profit of 20%. What is the cost price of the car?

What is the value of x if 10x = 1000?

Express 625.13 in standard form

Find the median of the numbers 17, 12, 15, 16, 8, 18, 13 and 14

The ages in years of 10 children at a party are 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5 and 6. If a child is chosen at random, what is the probability that he / she is not less than 5 years old ?

4x2 + 4xy – y2

A wrist watch is priced GHC 2,000.00. A shopkeeper allows a discount of 2% on the cost price. Find the discount on 20 of such wrist watches.

Find the value of m, if 4(m + 4) = – 8.

How many vertices has a cuboid?

The circumference of a circle is 440 m. Find the area of the circle. [Take π = ]

What name is given to a triangle which has all its sides equal?

At eight o’clock, which of the following is the angle between the hour and the minute hands of the clock?

A rectangular field 50 m wide and y m long requires 260 m of fencing. Find y.

Which of the following best describes the statement: ‘The locus of a point which moves so that its distance from two fixed points are always equal’?

The point K (1, 5) is rotated through 90° anti-clockwise about the origin. Find the coordinates of the image of K.

Kwame is facing west. Through how many degrees should he turn anti-clockwise to face north?

Given that vectors u = and v = , find 2v – u

Find the missing number in the sequence below:

Find the Highest Common Factor of 24, 42 and 72