PAPER 1 1 HOUR 8.

At what rate of simple interest will GHC

5,000.00 amount to GHC 5,800.00 in 2 years?
OBJECTIVE TEST
A. 4%
Do all rough works on this question paper B. 6%
Answer all questions C. 8%
D. 10%
1. Which of the following is not a rational
number? 9. The number of males in a community is 1,400
A. 1
B. 0.75 and the ratio of males to females is 2 : 3. What
3
C. 7 is the number of the total inhabitants in that
1
D. community?
20
2. What is the value 8 in 57.568? A. 700
A. Tenths
B. 2,100
B. Hundredths
C. Thousandths C. 2,800
D. Ten thousandths D. 3,500
3. Round off 𝐺𝐻𝐶 8 7,508,540.00 to the nearest 5
10. Which of the following properties of operation
significant figures.
A. 𝐺𝐻𝐶 8 7,509,000.00 is illustrated by 5(3 − 𝑥) = 15 − 5𝑥
B. 𝐺𝐻𝐶 8 7,508,000.00 A. Commutativity
C. 𝐺𝐻𝐶 8 7,500,000.00
D. 𝐺𝐻𝐶 8 7,000,000.00 B. Associativity
4. The temperature of a piece of meat inside a C. Distributive
deep freezer was -24°. If the temperature drops
D. Inverse
by 10, what is the new temperature
3
A. -14°C 11. Anita grew a garden with 10 of the area for
B. -34°C 1
C. 14°C vegetables. In the vegetable section, 6 of the
D. 34°C
area is carrots. What fraction of the total
5. What is the least natural number that can
multiplied by 240 to make it a perfect square garden is carrots?
number? A.
1
A. 2. 15

B. 3. B.
2
15
C. 5
7
D. 15 C. 15
6. A curtain is 3 m long. it shrinks by 3% when 1
it is washed. Find the new length of the D. 20
curtain
12. Hakeem takes 30 minutes to eat his
A. 0.09m
B. 3.03m breakfast, 15 minutes to dress up and 20
C. 2.91m minutes to walk to school. He got to school at
D. 3.21m
7: 15 am. What time did he eat his breakfast?
7. Arrange in ascending order of magnitude
2 1
0.32, 28% 5 ,3 A. 1 : 05 am
2
A. 0.32 , 5, 28% ,3
1 B. 2 : 05 am
1
B. 28% ,3 ,0.32,
2 C. 6 : 10 am
5
C. 28% , 0.32,
1
,
2 D. 7 : 10 am
3 5
2 1
D. 28% ,5 ,0.32, 3
13. The method of data collection in which the 1
19. Find the truth set of 2 (-3𝑥 + 4)≥ 8 if
respondent answers a set of questions orally is domain D= {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
A. {1}
A. Observation
B. {1,2,3}
B. Interview C. {1,2,3,4}
C. Questionnaire D. {5,6,7,8}
1
D. Data base 20. What is the value of n in 125= 5−(2+𝑛)
?
A. 1
14. Express 300 as a product of its prime factors
B. 2
A. 22 × 3 × 52 C. 3
B. 22 × 3 × 5 D. 4
The following are the marks recorded after a
C. 22 × 32 × 52
class test of selected pupils are
D. 23 × 3 × 52
10, 12,8,6,4,6,8,6,4 and 6. Use it to answer
15. The locus of a point equidistant from 2 lines
questions 21 to 23
segments A𝐵 and BC with a common point is
21. Find the mean
A. a Circle
A. 4
B. a line segment
B. 6
C. an angle bisector
C. 7
D. a parallel line
D. 8
16. Find the volume of the solid shape below
22. Determine the median
The diameter is 14 cm and the height is 35 cm
22
A. 6
[Take 𝜋 = ]
7 B. 8
C. 10
14cm D. 12

A. 154 𝑐𝑚3 23. What is the mode?

B. 2156 𝑐𝑚3 A. 4
C. 3234 𝑐𝑚3 B. 6
D. 5390 𝑐𝑚3
C. 8
17. If the area of a square is 169 𝑐𝑚2 ,find its
D. 10
perimeter
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A. 26 cm 24. Point F is translated by vector (−1 ) to G (2,1),

B. 52 cm Find the Co-ordinate of F

C. 338 cm A. (-5,1)
D. 676 cm
B. (-5,1)
18. Factorize completely :
C. (1,2)
(2𝑥 – 1)(3𝑥 + 6) – 5(2𝑥 – 1)
D. (-1,2)
A. (2𝑥 − 1)(3𝑥 + 6)
B. (2𝑥 + 1)(3𝑥 + 6)
C. (2𝑥 − 1)(3𝑥 + 1)
D. (2𝑥 + 1)(3𝑥 + 1)
 25. Two fair coins are tossed together. What is 30. Set A={1 , 3 , 5 ,7 ,9} and the universal
the probability that no head appears? set 𝑈 ={0, 1, 2, 3…, 10}. What is 𝑛(𝐴’)?
A. 4
1
A.
4 B. 5

B.
3 C. 6
4
D. 10
C. 1
31. Find the smallest number of mobile
D. 0 phones that can be put into bags which all
contain 24 or 40 or 56 mobile phones with
26. There are black and red pens in a bag. The none left?
3
probability of picking at random a black pen is 7 . A. 560
If the pens are 70, what is the number red pen in
the bag? B. 120

A. 10 C. 8

B. 30 D. 4
C. 40 A farmer fenced his rectangular garden with a
fencing wire. The longer side is 25 m and
D. 50
its area is 300𝑚2 . Use this information to
𝑎 1
27. Make y the subject in − 2𝑥 = 𝑦 answer
𝑏
Questions 32- 34
A. 𝑦 = 2𝑥 − 2𝑏𝑦
𝑎−2𝑏𝑥 32. Find the width of the garden.
B. 𝑦 =
𝑏
A. 10 𝑚
𝑏
C. 𝑦 = 𝑎−2𝑏𝑥 B. 12 𝑚
D. 𝑦 = 2𝑏𝑦 − 2𝑥 C. 15 𝑚
28. What is the product of D. 20 𝑚
(5n-l) and (5n +l) 33. What is the perimeter?
A. 25𝑛 + 5𝑛2 + 1 A. 27 m
B. 25𝑛 + 5𝑛 + 1
2
B. 74 m
C. 25𝑛2 +5𝑛 − 1 C. 275 m
D. 25𝑛2 − 1 D. 325 m
𝐴𝐵 = (14) and ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗
29. If ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗ 𝐵𝐶 =(−6
3
), Find ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗
𝐶𝐴 34. If one metre of the wire costs GH₵
11.00, find the total cost of fencing the
A. (−5
7
) garden twice.
5
B. (−7 ) A. GH₵ 66.00

C. (57) B. GH₵ 132.00

C. GH₵ 594.00
D. (−5
−7
)
D. GH₵ 1,628.00
 38. Simplify 3𝑝2 𝑞 – 4𝑝𝑞 3 + 𝑝2 𝑞 + 6𝑝𝑞 3
A. 4𝑝2 𝑞 – 2𝑝𝑞 3
B. 4𝑝𝑞 2 – 2𝑝𝑞 3
C. 4𝑝2 𝑞 + 2𝑝𝑞 3
Use the diagram above to answer D. 4𝑝𝑞 2 + 2𝑝𝑞
questions 35 and 36
39. The area bounded by an arc and a chord
in a circle is called a/an
35. Find the value of y A. Sector
B. Circumference
A. 20° C. Segment
D. Diameter
B. 80°
C. 100° 40. Find the image of the point (-3,4) under a
reflection in the line 𝑦 = 0
D. 180° A. (3,4)
B. (3,-4)
36. What is the value of t
C. (-3,-4)
A. 10° D. (-4,-3)

B. 20°
C. 40°
D. 50°

37. Yaw is m years old now. How old will he

be in 12 years?
A. (m-12) years
B. (m+12) years
C. (12-m) years
D. 12m years