MCQ Questions

Question No. 1

The frequency table below contains data about how many oranges a woman sells at the market on each day of the week. Draw a pictogram using pictures of oranges to represent the data. Let 1 orange represent every 2 oranges sold.

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Question No. 2

Use the table below to draw a pictogram. Do not forget to give your pictogram a title and a key. Choose a suitable symbol to represent bananas. Let one symbol represent six bananas.

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Question No. 3

In a village census, the results below were recorded: • Number of children: 50 000 • Number of women: 40 000 • Number of men: 30 000 Draw a pictogram for the information, given that: 👦 = 5 000 children 👩 = 5 000 women 👨 = 5 000 men

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Question No. 4

Complete the table below, given ⚽ = 2 goals

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Question No. 5

The table below shows the scores 60 students obtained in a Biology test. The test was marked out of 10.

Answer :

a) Draw a bar graph to show this information. Show the scores on the horizontal axis, and the frequency of scores on the vertical axis.

b) Repeat the process above, but this time make sure you leave no spaces between the bars.

Question No. 6

The table below shows the number of students in each level in a certain college:Draw a bar chart to show this information.

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Question No. 7

280 students were asked to name their favourite food. The results are given in the table below: Draw a bar chart to show this information.

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Question No. 8

The bar graph on the next page shows the contribution of tourism (in ₦ billion) to the GDP of Nigeria from 2004 to 2014. The 2024 figure is a forecast of how much the tourism industry will contribute to the total. Use the bar graph to answer the questions that follow.

Answer :

a) How much did tourism contribute to the GDP in 2004?

b) How much more was the contribution from 2004 to 2005?

c) Why do you think the contribution of tourism dropped in 2006?

d) Determine approximately the mean contribution of tourism to the GDP from 2004 to 2014.

e) Give two reasons why tourism is forecast to grow between 2014 and 2024.

Question No. 9

The bar chart below shows the distribution of marks in a class test. Find the number of students in the class.

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Question No. 10

A class of 30 students scored these marks in an examination. What percentage of students scored more than 40%?

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Question No. 11

The number of counters brought to school by 50 students was recorded as follows:

Answer :

a) Construct a frequency table for these numbers.

b) Draw a bar graph to show this data set.

Question No. 12

A survey recorded the number of people living in each of 40 houses as follows:

Answer :

a) Draw a bar graph to show this data set.

b) How many people are living in all the houses in total?

Question No. 13

A shop sold different quantities of packets of coloured pencils on one day, and recorded the result in a bar graph below. There were twelve pencils in one packet.

Answer :

a) What colour was most popular?

b) What colour was least popular?

c) How many packets of yellow pencils were sold?

d) Calculate the total number of coloured pencils sold that day.

Question No. 14

The table below shows how a student spends her day.

Answer :

Show this information on a pie chart.

Question No. 15

A number of students were asked for their favourite sport. 1/4 of them said tennis, 1/8 basketball, 1/3 football and the rest said jogging.

Answer :

a) What fraction of the total chose jogging?

b) Calculate the angle of the sector representing basketball.

c) If 32 students choose football, how many chose tennis?

Question No. 16

This pie chart below shows the nationalities of people staying in a hotel.

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b) What fraction of the people in the hotel are French?

a) Which of the five nationalities has the smallest number of people in the hotel?

c) If there are 288 people in the hotel altogether, how many of them are Dutch?

Question No. 17

The table below shows the number of students in a university, and the faculties in which they are studying.

Answer :

Draw a pie chart to show this information.

Question No. 18

The pass grades in an examination are A, B and C. The table shows the percentage of grades scored by students of a particular school.

Answer :

a) If there are 720 students in the school, calculate the number who failed.

b) Calculate the sector angles for the pass grades.

c) Calculate the number who passed with Grade A.

Question No. 19

This table below shows the subjects and periods per week for JSS 3.

Answer :

Draw a pie chart to show this information.

Question No. 20

The pie chart on the right shows the expenditure of a woman’s salary for December.

Answer :

a) If the woman earned ₦240 000, find how much she spent on: i) food; ii) rent; iii) other.

b) What fraction of her salary was used for accounts?

Question No. 21

Using the bar graph below, draw a pie chart of the number of coloured pencils sold per day

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Question No. 22

The line graph below shows the midday temperature over one week.

Answer :

a) On which day was the temperature the hottest?

b) What was the temperature on Day 7?

c) On which days was the temperature the same?

d) Use the graph to calculate the average temperature for the week.

Question No. 23

Draw a line graph to represent the following information.

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Question No. 24

Ozioma measures her heart rate every half hour during one morning, and she draws up the following table of results:

Answer :

a) Plot a line graph of the data in the table.

b) Describe what you notice about the graph.

c) Why do you think that her heart rate increases suddenly during the day?

Question No. 25

The line graph below shows the weight of a baby over a period of 36 months.

Answer :

a) How much did the baby weigh at birth?

b) How much did the baby weigh at: i) 4 months ii) 32 months?

c) What was the baby’s age when he weighed: i) 6 kg ii) 18 kg?

d) How much weight did he gain between birth and 12 months?

e) What was his average weight over the period recorded?

Question No. 26

In 2014, there was a serious outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. Look at the line graph below showing the number of cases and deaths from April 2014 to April 2015.

Answer :

a) When did the first case of Ebola occur? Give the month and year.

b) How many cases were reported by October 2014?

c) Between which months did the number of infections grow the most?

d) Why would you say the number of deaths and the number of reported cases are the same between April and May 2014?

e) Why would you say both graphs start levelling off in May 2015?

Question No. 27

The graph below shows the number of internet users in Nigeria from 2013 with projections to 2018.

Answer :

a) How many people were using the internet in 2013?

b) By how much will the number of people who use the internet increase from 2015 to 2016?

c) Why do you think the number of internet users is increasing?

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