MCQ Questions

Question No. 1

Write down an equation for each of the following word problems. You do not need to solve the equation.

Question No. 2

Solve the following word problems by making an equation.

Answer :

a) If you multiply a number by five, you get the same answer as when you add eight to the number. Find the number.

b) I am thinking of a number. If I subtract 54 from double that number, my answer is 12. Find the number.

c) The perimeter of a rectangle is 27 cm. The sides are 2x – 5; 5; x and x + 3 respectively. Find x and the value of each side.

d) The length of a rectangle is (x + 5) cm and its width is x cm. Given that the perimeter of the rectangle is 26 cm, find the length and width of this rectangle.

e) A student spent 50 minutes doing her homework. She spent m minutes doing Geography, 2m minutes doing Mathematics and the remaining (m + 7) minutes studying History. How many minutes did she spend doing Mathematics?

f) A woman at the market was selling apples and grapes. Each apple costs ₦30 and each bunch of grapes costs ₦120. She has twice as many apples as bunches of grapes. She sells all the fruit and receives ₦2 800. How many apples did she have?

g) Omoyemwen has typed 28 more pages than Nsedu. Together they have typed a total of 276 pages. How many pages have each of them typed?

Question No. 3

Without solving any of the equations, formulate word problems for each equation.

Answer :

a) x + 5 = 12

b) 250 – 50 = x + 10

c) 4m + 8 = 3m – 1

d) 3u – 30 = u – 7

e) a ⁄ 10 = 50

f) ν ⁄ 3 = 13

Question No. 4

Write down equations to solve the following word problems.

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