JSS2 Mathematics Past Questions and Answers

Evaluate 62
a) 12 b) 14 c) 24 d) 36 e) 42

Find the square root of 25
a) 5 b) 10 c) 15 d) 20 e) 25

Find 10% of 400
a) 10 b) 20 c) 30 d) 40 e) 50

Convert 3:4 to percentage
a) 55 b) 65 c) 75 d) 85 e) 95

Find the simple interest on N500 for 2 years
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4 e) 5

Round off 9324 to 1 significant figure
a) 9.32 b) 9.3 c) 932 d) 9000 e) 9.300

What is the multiplicative inverse of 11/20?
a) 1/2 b) 0/2 c) 20/2
d) 11/12 e) 2/11

Simplify ab(a – b)
a) aba - abb b) abba - bb c) bb - aba d) aa - aba e) ba - aba

How many lines of symmetry has a square?
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6 e) 7
Use the diagram below to answer questions 12, 13 and 14

What is the value of angle a?
a) 76o b) 77o c) 78o d) 79o e) 80o

What is the value of angle b?
a) 100o b) 101o c) 102o d) 103o e) 104o

What is the value of angle c?
a) 76o b) 77o c) 78o d) 79o e) 80o

The cardinal points are made up of primary directions of ____
a) North East, South, and West b) North East and West
c) North, East and West
d) North, East, SouthNorth and West e) North, West

Write the bearing of X from Y in the diagram below
a) 065o b) 075o c) 085o d) 85o e) 75o

Which one is a Pythagoras’s rule?
a) c2 = a2 + b2 b) c2 = c2 + b2 c) c2 = b2 - a2
d) b2 = a2 + a2 e) b2 = b2 + a2

Which of the following is a Pythagorean triple?
a) 2, 9, 11 b) 21, 22, 23 c) 12, 35, 37
d) 13, 35, 37 e) 14, 34, 37

A right-angled triangle is a triangle which one of the angles is ____
a) 360o b) 270o c) 180o d) 90o e) 0o

Bearing is measured in ____
a) clockwise direction b) anticlockwise direction c) wile direction
d) upward direction e) downward direction