Welcome to your Basic Education Certificate Examination: Mathematics 2024 Past Objective Questions
1. Two brands of air conditioners S and T cost GH₵ 3,000.00 and GH₵ 4,000.00 respectively. A company budgeted GH₵ 20,000.00 to buy air conditioners. If the company bought 5 units of brand S instead of brand T, how much did it save?
2. Zalia and Amina shared an amount of money in the ratio 2 : 5. If Amina had GH₵ 150.00 more than Zalia, how much did they share?
3. Which of the following is an example of quantitative data?
6. Amadu walked to a point such that he is always the same distance from two villages P and Q. Which of the following best describes the locus of Amadu?
7. A bag of rice weighs 2 kg. If the empty bag weights 150 g, find the weight of the rice. [1 kg = 1,000 g]
8. Andrews drew three lines such that the length of the first one is 10 cm, the second is 15 cm longer than the first one and the third is 9 cm less than the second. Find the length of the third line.
9. Find the truth set of 2x - 4 < 6 + 3x.
10. The locus of points equidistant from a fixed point is called a
16. Araba is 3 years younger than her sister. If the sum of their ages is 17 years, find Araba's age.
17. A number of oranges are shared among 50 students and each got 15 oranges. If the same number of oranges are shared equally among 30 students, how many will each student get?
23. Find the interest on GH₵ 400.00 for 2 years at 10% simple interest per annum.
25. An article which cost GH₵ 600.00 was sold at a discount of 10%. Find the selling price.
28. A frog leaps in such a way that its distance, in metres, from its starting position after each leap is given by 4, 7, 10, ... Find its distance from the starting position after the 10th leap.
29. A bus departed from Elmina at 9:15 pm and arrived in Accra at 2:45 am the next day. How long did the journey take?
33. If the gradient of a straight line is zero, then the line
34. Madam Nancy wants to know which of the teachers in her school is liked best by most of the students. Which of the following methods is most suitable for collecting the data?
35. Mensah packed 1,800 apples into a number of boxes. If each box contained 120 apples, how many boxes were fully packed?
36. The cost of three items at a shop are GH₵ 72.00, GH₵ 1,105.00 and GH₵ 216.00. If a customer bought all the three items and received a change of GH₵ 107.00, how much did he initially give the shopkeeper?
