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THIRD TERM MOCK EXAMINATION SESSION 2023/2024

SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS YEAR 9

INSTRUCTIONS : ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS ( MULTIPLE CHOICE PAPER 1)

1. Express 0.00254 in standard form. a. (2x – y)(2x – 3) b. (x – 2y) (2x – 3) c.

(2x+3)(2x + y) d. (2x + y)(2x – 3) e. (2x
A. 2.54 X 10-1 B. 2.54 X 10-2 C. 2.54 X
–y)(2x+3)
10-3 D. 2.54 X 10-4 E. 2.54 X 10-5
7. Solve the simultaneous equations:
2. Find the product of (y+3) and (y-3).
x-2y +3 = 0, 3x + 2y = 7
a. y2 + 6y + 9 b. y2 + 9 c. y2 – 9 d. y2
a. x=-4, y=1 b. x=-3, y= 0 c. x=1, y=-3
+ 6y + 9 e. y2 + 3
d. x =1, y=-3 d. x=1, y= 2 e. X=2, Y=
3. A man is 26 years older than his 1
son . He is also 8 years older than
8. Which of the following inequalities
three times his son’s age. Find the
represents the number line shown
son’s age.
below?
a. 9 years b. 10 years c. 12 years d.
14 years e. 18 years

4. The factors of x2 + x – 12 are

a. (x-4) and (x-3) b. (x-4) and (x+3) a. x>2 b. x < 2 c. x = 2 d. x <= 2 e.

c. (x+4) and (x-3) d. (x+3) and (x – 3) x>= 2
e. (x+6) and (x-2)
Use the table below to answer
5. Simplify 2x + 1/ 2 - 3x + 7 / 3 questions 9 – 12 given that 2x + 5y =
25
a. -2 5/6 b. -1 5/6 c. 2 5/6 d. 1/6
(12x + 17) e. 1/6 ( 12x – 11) X -2 -1 0 1 2 3
Y P 5.4 Q 4.6 4.2 r
6. Factorise 4x2 - 3y -6x + 2xy
9. Find the value of p from the table 16. What fraction of the school is
above. a. 4.2 b. 4.4 c. 4.6 d. 5.4 e. JSS1? a. 5/18 b. 11/36 c. 1/3 d.
5.8 5/12 e. ½

10. Determine the value of q. 17. If there are 180 students in the
school , how many are in JSS2?
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5 e. 6
a. 125 b. 75 c. 55 d. 50 e. 45
11. Calculate the value of 2q – r.
18. Jones rolls a fair die once. What is
a. 1.2 b. 3.2 c. 3.4 d. 6.2 e. 7.2
the probability of obtaining an odd
12. What is the value of p + q + r ? number?

a. 5.6 b. 8.6 c. 9.6 d. 13.6 e. 14.6 a. 1/5 b. ¼ c. ½ d. 3/5 e. 2/3

13. A pair of trousers cost ₦1 600.00 19. A fair coin is tossed once, what is
and a pair of shoes cost ₦q. If the two the probability of obtaining a tail?
cost ₦ 2 800. 00 altogether , what is
a. 1/6 b.1/3 c. ½ d. 2/3 e. 5/6
the cost of the pair of shoes?
20. The scores of selected students in
a. ₦1 200.00 b. ₦ 1 300.00 c. ₦ 1
a mock examination are given as 43,
450.00 d. ₦1 600.00 e. ₦ 1 750.00
13, 57, 49, 63, 84 and 75. What is the
14. Find the sum of the mode and range of the marks?
mean of the following set of
a. 13 b. 32 c. 71 d. 84 e. 118
numbers: 2,3,2,1,3,3.
21. An equilateral triangle has the
a. 2.5 b. 3.0 c. 4.5 d. 5.5 e. 6.0
same perimeter as a square. The area
15. Find the mean of 4,2,1,5,3,5,1. of the square in cm 2 , is

a. 3.0 b. 4.1 c. 4.3 d. 5.2 e. 6.1 a. 48 b. 64 c. 96 d. 144 e. 256

Use the pie chart below to answer 22. The sum of ₦x and y kobo
questions 16 – 17 expressed in kobo is

a. x/100 + y b. x + 100y c. x + y d.
100x + y e. x + y/100

23. The obtuse angle between the

hand of a clock at 2.30 a.m. is
a. 1050 b. 1200 c. 1350 d. 1500 e. 30. There are 180 girls in a school. If
1650 the ratio of the girls to boys is 4:3 ,
the total number of students in the
24. Find x in the figure below
school is

a. 225 b. 315 c. 360 d. 405 e. 420

31. A map is drawn to scale 2cm to

100km. On the map , the distance
between two towns is 2.5cm. What is
a. 41 b. 49 c. 62 d. 77 e. 139 their true distance apart?

25. 250 g of sugar costs ₦150 at shop a. 40km b. 80km c. 125km d. 250km
x. 100 g of sugar costs ₦ 95 at shop y. e. 500km
The difference in cost per kg is
32. Given the data below, find the
a. ₦55 b. ₦220 c. ₦ 250 d. ₦260 e. length of XQ.
₦ 350

26. The next term in the sequence

1,4,10,19,31, ……… is

a. 32 b. 34 c. 43 d. 46 e. 50

27. 482 000 in standard form is a. 6cm b. 7cm c. 11cm d. 15cm e.

18cm
a. 4.82 x 10-6 b. 4.82 x 10-5 c. 4.82 x
103 d. 4.82 x 10 5 e. 4.82 x 106 33. Find cos 55.550 from tables.

28. Solve 2x -1 /5 + 2x =19. X=? a. 0.5650 b. 0.5657 c. 0.5664 d.

0.5671 e. 0.5736
a. 1 2/3 b. 2 ½ c. 5 d. 8 e. 24
34. Factorise x2 – 7x -30.
29. A man is four times as old as his
son. In 5 years’ time he will be three a. (x+1)(x-30) b. (x+2)(x-15) c.
times as old as his son. What is the (x+3)(x-10) d. (x+5)(x-6) e. (x+6)(x-5)
present age of the son in years? 35. If 9/2x = 10 – 8/x, then x =
a. 8 b. 9 c. 10 d. 12 e. 15 a. 7/20 b. 1 ¼ c. 1 ½ d. 1 4/5 e. 1
7/10
36. If 3x – y = 14 and 7x –y = 46, then a. ₦1 100 b. ₦ 1 221 c. ₦ 2 200 d. ₦
x= 2321 e. ₦ 2 442

a. 6 b. 8 c. 15 d. 22 e. 28 41. The scale of a model aeroplane is

1:20. The area of the wings on the
37. When 27 people share a sack of
model is 600cm2. Find the area of the
rice, they each get 4kg of rice. When
wings of the plane in m2 .
12 people share the same sack of
rice, how much does each get? a. 12m2 b. 24m2 c. 48m2 d. 72m2 e.
120m2
a. 3kg b. 8kg c. 9kg d. 10kg e. 12kg
42. The sum of the interior angle of
38. The average mass of six people is
an octagon is equal to
58kg. The lightest person has a body
mass of 43kg. What is average mass a. 14400 b. 10800 c. 7200 d. 5400 e.
of the other five people ? 3600

a. 58kg b. 59kg c. 61kg d. 64kg e. 43. R varies directly as S and inversely

68kg as T. If R = 8 when S = 4 and T = 3,
then R is equal to
39.
a. 32 s/t b. 6s/t c. 3s/2t d. 3t/2s
e. 6t/s

44. Write 0.07258 correct to 3

significant figures.

a. 0.070 b. 0.072 c. 0.073 d. 0.0725

In the figure above, which one of the
e. 0.0726
following is an expression for h in
terms of d and α ? 45. If three coins are tossed once,
how many different outcomes are
a. d sin α b. d/sin a c. d cos α d.
possible ?
d/cos a e. d tan α
a. 27 b. 9 c. 8 d. 6 e. 3
40. ₦ 10 000 is saved at compound
interest of 11% per annum. The 46. Factorise 2x2 – 18xy.
interest after 2 years is
a. 2x(x + 9y) b. 2x ( x- 9y) c. 2x2(1-9y)
d. x(9y2 -2x) e. x(x-9y)
47. A car travelled 80km in b. A closed tin of milk has diameter
48minutes. Find the speed of the car 10cm and height 16cm. Find the total
in km/h. surface area of the tin. (pi = 22/7)

a. 120km/h b. 110km/h c. 100km/h 2a. A ladder 20m long rests against a

d. 90km/h e. 80km/h vertical wall. The distance between
the foot of the ladder and the wall is
48. Which of the following is a
9m.
rational number?
i. Find to the nearest degree, the
a. .√3 b. √7 c. π d. √91 e. 3.3
angle that the ladder makes with the
A rectangular tray is 30cm long, wall.
20cm wide and 6cm high. A similar
ii. Find correct to 1 decimal place, the
tray is 12cm long. Use this
height above the ground at which the
information to answer questions 49
upper end of the ladder touches the
and 50.
wall.
49. What is the scale factor of the
b. Using a ruler and compasses only,
enlargement of the tray to the bigger
construct XYZ such XY = 4cm, XZ
tray?
=7cm and angle X = 60 0.
a. ½ b. 2/3 c. 5/3 d. 3/2 e. 5/2
From above, construct the
50. What is the height of the smaller perpendicular bisector of YZ such that
tray? it cuts XZ at P.

a. 2cm b. 2.4cm c. 2.5cm d. 3cm e. Measure XP to the nearest mm.

4.8cm
3a. If the angles of a polygon are 900,
4y0 , 1000, 1200 and (7y-340), find the
value of y.
SECTION B THEORY
b. Two circles have radii a cm and b
cm (a > b).
1a. Solve the equation 6/x +3 =
i. Write down a formula for the
11/x-2
difference between their area.

ii. Factorise the result.

iii. If a = 19 and b = 9, calculate the
difference in area between the two
circles.

4a. A man has three white shirts, two

blue shirts and five red shirts. He
picked one at random. What is the
probability that it is

i. white, ii. blue, iii. Red, iv. Not red?

b. The ages of eight students are as

follows: 15 years 3months, 15 years 9
months, 14 years 10 months, 15
years, 15 years 7 months, 14 years 4
months, 15 years 5 months and 16
years. Calculate i. the median age, ii.
the mean age of the students correct
to the nearest month ?

5a. A knife has a mass of m grammes.

It is 20g heavier than a spoon. The
mass of a knife and four spoons is
330g. Find the mass of the knife.

b. I bought an article for ȼ 1 240 in

Ghana. I paid an import duty of 50%
when I returned to Nigeria. If ₦1 = ȼ4,
what was the total cost of the article
in Nigerian money?