BETHEL LAND COMPREHENSIVE ACADEMY SABON GARI BWARI

ABUJA
FIRST TERM EXAMINATION 2024/2025 SESSION
MATHEMATICS SS2 TIME ALLOWED: 3hrs

SECTION A (Answer all Questions in this section)

1. Round up 0.007368 to 2 significant figures. (a) 0.00 (b) 0.01 (c)
0.0073 (d) 0.0074
2. A rope of length 15cm was measured by a girl to be 14.4cm. Find the percentage error.
(a) 2% (b) 3% (c) 4% (d) 5%
3. Find the sum of the first 10th terms of the sequence 7, 9, 11, 13, __ … (a) 110
(b) 120(c) 140 (d) 160
4. What is the 5th term of 5, 8, 11, 14, … (a) 16 (b) 17 (c) 18
(d) 20
5. Expand 3x(2x + 1) – 2(3x + 2) (a) 6x2 – 3x – 4 (b) 6x2
+ 3x – 4 (c) 6x2 – 3x + 4 (d) 6x + 3x + 4
6. If the age of a man is 64 years and is written as 71 years. Calculate the percentage error to
3 significant figures. (a) 10.9375% (b) 10.9 (c) 0.937% (d) 0.9375%
7. Round up 402.5265 to 2 significant places. (a) 40 (b) 402.5 (c)
402.53 (d) 402.00
8. Solve the algebraic expressions 21p2q2r2
28pr4
(a) 21pq2 (b) 2pq2 (c) 3q2p (d) 4p2q2r2
28r2 4pr2 4r2 3pr4
9. If p:q = 5:4, evaluate 10p + 2q
1
/2p + ¼ q (a) 382/3 (b) 132/4 (c) 16½
(d) 17¼
10. The 5th term of a geometry progression is 48 and the 8 th term is 384. Find the common
ratio. (a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 7 (d) 3
11. Factorize 35 – 12u + u2 (a) (u – 7)(u – 5) (b) (u + 5)(u + 7) (c) (u + 7)(u +
5) (d) (u – 7)(u + 5)
12. An A.P has the last and first terms of 21 and -9 respectively. If the common difference of
the A.P. is 6, find the numbers of terms in the A.P. (a) 7 (b) 11 (c) 9
(d) 6

The 14th term of an A.P. is 96 while the 25 th term is 173. Using this question, answer question 13
– 16
13. What is the common difference? (a) 7 (b) 8 (c) 9 (d) 6
14. Find the first term of the A.P. (a) 7 (b) 5 (c) 2 (d) 1
15. Find the 19th term. (a) 131 (b) 121(c) 110 (d) 120
16. Find the product of the 6th and 13th terms. (a) 3500 (b) 4500 (c)
1100 (d) 2500
17. Solve 2x – y = 8, 3x + y = 17 simultaneously. (a) x = 5 and y = 2 (b) x = 2 and y
=5 (c) x = -2 and y = -5 (d) x = - 5 and y = 2
18. Simplify 2 - 5 - 4
x y xy
(a) 2y – 5x – 4 (b) 2x + 5y + 4 (c) 2y + 5x - 4 (d) 2y + 5x +
4
xy xy xy x–y
19. What is the value of x in 5 if the fraction is undefined?
x–5
(a) x – 5 (b) x = -5 (c) x = 1 (d) x = -1
20. if 7p = 91, find the value of P. (a) p = 12 (b) p = -1 (c) p = 13 (d) p =
0
21. What is the formulae to find the nth term in an A.P. (a) a + d (b) T2 – T1
(c) Tn = a + (n – 1) d (d) none of the above
22. Find the common ratio of the G.P. which are 5, 10, 20. 40. (a) 3 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 5
23. Find the common ratio of 120, 60, 30 in a G. P. (a) 2/3 (b) ½ (c) 2 (d) 4
24. If r < 1 what is the formulae to calculate the sum of a G.P.
(a) Sn = a (rn – 1) (b) Sn = a (1 – rn) (c) Sn = a (rn + 1) (d) Sn
= a (1 + rn)
r–1 1–r r+1
1+r
25. Expand (4u2 – 9) (a) (2u + 3)(3u – 3) (b) (2u - 3)(2u – 3) (c) (2u - 2)(2u
+ 2) (d) all of the above
26. Factorize P2 + 5P + 6 = 0 (a) (P + 3) (P + 2) (b) (P - 3) (P - 2) (c) (P -
3) (P + 2) (d) (P + 3) (P - 2)
27. Find the value of x in the equation. 4x + 9 = 0 (a) x = 9/4 (b) x = 9/4 (c) x
=1 (d) x = 3
28. Find the formulae of the nth term of the A.P. 12, 5, -2, …. (a) Tn = 17 – 2n
(b) Tn = 19 – 7n (c) Tn = 13 – 1n (d) Tn = 6 – 2n
29. What is the formulae to find the sum of the nth terms of an A.P?
(a) Sn = n (2n + (n – 1)d) (b) Sn = 2 (3a + (n + 1)d)
2 n
 (c) Sn = n (2a (n – 1)d) (d) Sn = n (2a (n - 1)d)
2 2
30. What is the formulae to find the nth term of a G.P. ? (a) Tn = arn-1 (b) Tn = an-1r
(c) Tn = ar1-n (d) Tn = arn+1

Complete the following table

Number 2 s.f. 2 d.p. 3 d.p. 4 s.f.
31. 3.05994
32. 1.98279
33. 0.37456
34. 40532
35. 402.5265
36. 0.04937
37. 17.96542
38. 83.87348
39. 10.54621
40. 13.28159

THEORY: ANSWER 7 QUESTIONS FROM THIS SECTION. QUESTION 1 IS

COMPULSORY
2
1. (A) Copy and complete the table of values for the relation y=x −5 x+3
x -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
y 9 -3 -1 17

2
(b) Draw the graph of y=x −5 x+3 for intervals −2≤x ≤7 [Hint: take 2 cm=1 unit on
x -axis and 2 cm=2 units on y−axis ]
(c) From your graph obtain the following:
i. the roots of the equation
ii. the minimum point
iii. the equation of line of symmetry and draw the line of symmetry
iv. the coordinates of the minimum point [13 marks]

2. (a) Simplify 3x - x + 3
2
x-y x 2
(b) A girl is three years older than her brother. the product of their ages is 54. Find their
ages.
(c) Solve 4x – 3y = 11 and 2x + 5y = 25 simultaneously.
(d) The third term of G.P is 63, while the fifth term is 567. What is the sum of the first
seven terms.

3. a. If x−1 , x+1 and 3 x+ 3 form a GP, find the value of x

 b. The 3rd and 5th term of a GP are 25 and 100 respectively. Find the 7th term.
1 3 9
c. Find the sum of the first four terms of 2 , 4 , 8 ,… [9 marks]

2
4. a. Solve by method of completing the square the quadratic equation 4 ( z −z )=3
(2 m−1)2 +2m2 =3−3 m
b. Solve by formula method the quadratic equation
2
c. Solve by method of factorization the quadratic equation 7 x−5=−6 x [9 marks]
5. The first term and common difference of an AP are equal to 2. If the sum of terms of
the AP is 30, find the number of terms in the AP.
(b) The first and last term of an Arithmetic progression (AP) is 5 and 89 respectively. If
the sum of the AP is 611, find the:
(i) Number of terms in the AP
(ii) Common difference NECO 2021. [9 marks]
6. (a) Solve the simultaneous equation:
5a 1 b
= +
8 4 2
2a 3b 2
− =
3 5 15

2 3
(3 x +2)= (2 x−3)
(b) Solve the equation 3 4
1 2 2
− +
(c) Simplify the following algebraic fraction: x−6 x−5 x +4 [9 marks]
7. (a)Draw the graph of 2x2 + 3x – 10 using graphical method to solve the equation.
(b) solve the pair of simultaneous equation by graphical method.
Y = x2 – 3x – 3
Y + 2x = 3 (9 marks)

8. A house wife bought 8 tubers of yam and 20 derica measures of rice for N1,200.
Another woman who paid the same unit price bought 4 tubers of yam and 30
measures of rice for N1,500. Find the cost of 1 tuber of yam and 1 derica measure of
rice. (9 marks)

9. (a)Solve 2x2 – 3x – 5 = 0 using completing the square method.

(b)Solve 2x2 + 3x – 10 = 0 using quadratic formulae method.
(c)Solve 35 + 12u + u2 using factorization methods (9 marks)

10. (a) 2 x 3 2 , simplify

2u + 3 2u + 3 4u2 – 9

(b) Simplify x - y + 1
3y – x 3x (9 marks)

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