WAEC Mathematics Questions
SECTION A
1. Without using tables, divide 0.68985 by 3.15.
2. Evaluate 0.047 × 70 correct to 1 decimal place.
3. Write 10 + 1/10 + 8/100 + 3/10000 as a decimal number.
4. Given that 4.928 × 37.5 = 184.8, evaluate 49.28 × 0.375.
5. How many notebooks at ₦130 each can a trader buy for ₦2,340? If she sells them at ₦170
each, find her total profit.
6. A man walks at the rate of 88 paces per minute. If the average length of his pace is 0.875
m, find the time he takes to walk 2.31 km.
7. Posts at the side of a road are 3.75 m apart and extend for three-quarters of a kilometre.
How many posts are there?
8. A quantity of identical plastic blocks weighs 10.98 kg. If each block weighs 54.9 g, how
many blocks are there?
9. Divide the sum of 3.19 and 2.39 by 3.6.
10. By how much is the product of 0.2 and 15.4 less than 10?
11. In a school, 0.6 of the total number of children have had chickenpox, while 162 children
have not had chickenpox. What is the enrolment of the school?
12. Which is greater, (0.2)^3 or (0.3)^2? How much greater?
SECTION B
1. By what fraction should a quantity be multiplied to:
a. increase it by 20%
b. decrease it by 50%
c. increase it by 37%
d. decrease it by 6%
e. increase it by 130%
(Leave each fraction with a denominator of 100.)
2. Find the selling price of an article which is bought for:
a. ₦125 and sold at a profit of 24%
b. ₦750 and sold at a profit of 12%
c. ₦850 and sold at a profit of 46%
d. ₦350 and sold at a loss of 10%
e. ₦920 and sold at a loss of 7.5%.
3. Find the gain or loss per cent when an article is bought for:
a. ₦30 and sold for ₦42
b. ₦760 and sold for ₦665
c. ₦350 and sold for ₦434
d. ₦1,640 and sold for ₦1,927
e. ₦18,400 and sold for ₦11,210.
4. Find the cost price of an article which is sold for:
a. ₦770 at a profit of 10%
b. ₦585 at a profit of 30%
c. ₦940 at a profit of 17.5%
d. ₦1,575 at a loss of 16%
e. ₦31,960 at a loss of 6%.
5. What percentage of 4 is 5?
6. When a farm of 325 ha is increased by 16%, what is its new area?
7. A monthly income increases from ₦430,000 to ₦494,450. Calculate the percentage
increase.
8. A boy spends 32% of his money and has ₦102 left. How much had he at first?
9. By selling a lamp for ₦5,600, a dealer gained 12%. How much money did she gain?
10. In an examination, a girl gets 425 marks out of 625. Calculate her percentage.
11. In an examination, a boy scores 78 out of a maximum 90 marks. Express his result as a
percentage, correct to 3 significant figures.
12. A spring which was 35 cm long is stretched so that its length is increased by 16%.
Calculate its new length.
13. A storekeeper decided to give a 10% discount on all purchases during the Christmas
season. How much would a customer pay for a table that originally cost ₦24,000?
14. A tailor gives a discount of 2.5% for cash payments. Calculate the reduced price of a suit
marked ₦5,440.
15. A car dealer gained ₦40,000 on a sale. If this was equivalent to an 8% profit, what was
the cost price of the car?
16. By selling a dress for ₦3,500, a woman lost 30%. For how much should she have sold it
to gain 30%?
17. A trader made a loss of 10% on a bicycle he sold for ₦54,000. If he had sold it for
₦57,600, what would have been his percentage loss or gain?
SECTION C
18. A factory increases its annual production of radios from 4,325 to 4,671:
a. Calculate the increase per cent.
b. Calculate the number of radios it would have had to produce for an increase of 12%.
19. By selling an article for ₦2,175, a man makes a profit of 16%:
a. Calculate how much the article cost.
b. For how much should he have sold it to make a profit of 28%.
20. In April, Mrs. Ezeaku bought a bag of corn for ₦2,400. When she wanted to buy more in
June, she found that she could only buy 3/5 of a bag for ₦2,400.
- What was the percentage increase in price from April to June?
