MCQ Questions

Question No. 1

Consider the data set below.

Answer :

a) Arrange the data from lowest to highest.

b) Arrange the data from highest to lowest.

Question No. 2

Over one year, the average monthly temperatures (°C) for a city were as follows:

Answer :

a) Arrange the data in descending order.

b) What was the lowest temperature?

c) During which month is the highest temperature found?

Question No. 3

The number of members in 20 families are given below:

Answer :

a) Arrange the data in ascending order.

b) Prepare a frequency table of the data.

Question No. 4

A school conducts a survey of Grade 5 students to identify what extracurricular activities they like to do. The results are listed in the tally table below.

Answer :

a) Which extracurricular activity is the most popular?

b) Which activity is the least popular among students?

c) How many students show an interest in clay work?

d) How many students show an interest in drawing?

e) How many students participated in this survey?

Question No. 5

The table below shows the number of portions of fruit that students eat each day.

Answer :

a) How many students eat three portions of fruit each day?

b) How many portions of fruit do four students eat?

c) How many students answered the question?

d) How many students eat less than three portions of fruit each day?

Question No. 6

Bunmi does a survey about favourite pets and records this data.

Answer :

a) Draw and complete a frequency table for the data set.

b) How many people prefer cats?

c) Which is the most frequently preferred animal?

d) How many people were questioned in this survey?

Question No. 7

Segun does a survey about the types of books people like to read. He draws the frequency table below. Draw a pictogram of the information. Use a picture of a book, where one book represents two people.

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Question No. 8

Nike drew this pictogram of the type of dessert her classmates bring to school.

Answer :

a) Which is the most popular dessert?

b) Which is the least popular dessert shown?

c) How many people brought yoghurt?

d) How many people brought sweets?

e) How many more people brought crisps than brought nothing?

f) How many more people brought sweets than brought fruit?

g) How many people did Nike ask in total?

Question No. 9

Yemisi watches cars go past her school and notes their colour. She drew this frequency table. Draw a pictogram of the information. Use a picture of a car to represent four cars.

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Question No. 10

The results of a census are shown below: • Number of children: 50 000 • Number of women: 40 000 • Number of men: 30 000 By choosing the appropriate key, draw a pictograph to show the above information.

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Question No. 11

Complete the table below, given that 👟 = 2 people.

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Question No. 12

The table below shows the preferences in chocolate bars of 40 students. Draw a bar graph to represent this information. Show the chocolate on the horizontal axis and the frequency on the vertical axis.

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Question No. 13

A JSS 2 class was asked how many pairs of shoes they each had at home. The results are shown below. Represent this information on a bar chart.

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Question No. 14

Use the table below to draw a bar graph of the frequency of different colour cars.

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Question No. 15

The bar graph on the next page shows the number of students in each level at a certain college.

Answer :

a) Your friend does not know how to read off a bar graph. Explain to your friend how to do it.

b) How many students are there in total?

c) Which class is the largest?

d) How many students are there in the Junior levels combined? And in the senior levels?

Question No. 16

The following information shows how many viewers watched a certain Nollywood movie over a three months period:

Answer :

a) Construct a bar graph to show the information.

b) Which month had the highest number of viewers?

c) What percentage of the total viewers watched the movie in June?

d) Do you think the number of viewers will continue to increase? Give a reason for your answer.

Question No. 17

Mr Oloyede is the JSS 2 head teacher at his school. The school hosts an annual dance. Students choose the dress code for the event. Mr Oloyede conducts a survey to determine the dress code for the 2013 event. The results are recorded in the frequency table below.

Answer :

a) Calculate the total number of learners who responded to the survey.

b) Calculate the percentage of the students who preferred casual wear as the dress code for the dance.

c) Which dress code is the least preferred by the students?

d) Draw a bar graph to represent the dress preferred by the girls.

Question No. 18

The following table shows how many goals a football team scored in each match of a football season. Draw a bar graph representing the number of goals scored.

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Question No. 19

The bar graph below contains data about how many oranges a woman sells at the market on each day for one week.

Answer :

a) On which day did she sell the most oranges?

b) How many oranges did she sell on Friday?

c) Calculate the total number of oranges.

Question No. 20

A company does a survey to determine what brand of training shoes are most popular. They find the following. Construct a pie chart to illustrate the data set. Show all calculations.

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Question No. 21

Here is a pie chart showing how pupils travel to school every day.

Answer :

a) Estimate what fraction travel by: i) car ii) walk iii) taxi?

b) Estimate what percentage travel by: i) bus ii) walk iii) taxi?

c) 70 pupils were used in this survey. Use your estimate to find how many pupils travel by: i) car ii) walking iii) taxi?

Question No. 22

The table below shows the budget for a dance.

Answer :

a) What percentage of the total cost is used for music?

b) What is the cost of the invitations?

c) Draw a pie chart using the above information.

Question No. 23

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

Answer :

a) What percentage of students are studying Engineering?

b) Calculate each of the angles for the sectors.

Question No. 24

In the pie chart below, how many degrees represent the sector ‘farmland’?

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Question No. 25

A pie chart is drawn with sectors to represent the following percentages: 20%, 50%, 25% and 5%. What is the angle of the sector that represents 5%?

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Question No. 26

Use the bar graph from Question 8 in Exercise 3 to draw a pie chart of the oranges sold per day.

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Question No. 27

The pass grades in an examination are A, B and C. The pie chart below shows the percentage of grades scored by students of a particular school. If there are 350 students in the school, calculate:

Answer :

a) the number who failed

b) the sector angle for the pass grades

c) the number who passed with Grade A.

Question No. 28

The table below shows the results for the Tour de France in 2005.

Answer :

a) How many cyclists were from the USA?

b) What was the slowest time recorded?

c) Who was in the lead for this part of the race?

Question No. 29

Gbenga used young sales people to demonstrate a new computer game at four different positions in a shop. Two hundred pamphlets were distributed. The table below shows how many shoppers just took a pamphlet about the game, and how many actually watched the demonstration of the game.

Answer :

a) Use the information in the table to determine the missing numbers A and B.

b) What percentage of people only took a pamphlet?

c) Do you think Gbenga’s promotion was successful? Give a reason for your answer.

Question No. 30

Learners were invited to enter a national essay-writing competition. A survey was done to find out how many winners came from each city. The results are given in the table on the right.

Answer :

a) Which city had the most winners?

b) Which cities had the same number of winners?

c) What percentage of the winners came from Port Harcourt?

Question No. 31

On a particular day, Soji and his friends travelled a distance of 360 km. The table shows the time taken to travel the 360 km at different speeds. Determine the values of A and B. Use the formula: time = distance ÷ speed.

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Question No. 32

The table alongside shows the inflation rate in Nigeria and the projected rate for 2015 to 2018.

Answer :

a) What was the inflation rate in 2013?

c) If 1 ℓ of milk cost ₦360 in 2013, what will it cost in 2014?

b) By how much will the inflation rate increase from 2015 to 2016?

Question No. 33

The chart below shows the distances between certain Nigerian towns and cities.

Answer :

a) What is the distance between Port Harcourt and Akure?

b) What is the distance between Makurdi and Zaria?

c) Shalewa wants to travel from Benin City to Makurdi and from there to Kaduna. What is the total distance she will have to travel?

Question No. 34

The bus schedule for travel from Abuja is shown below.

Answer :

a) At what time does the bus leave for Lagos?

b) How much will a bus ticket from Abuja to Lagos cost?

c) If you want to travel from Abuja to Onitsha, can you leave at 7 p.m.? Give a reason for your answer.

d) What type of bus will you use, if you are travelling to Awka?

e) What will a return ticket from Abuja to Awka cost?

Question No. 35

The map on the next page shows the bus routes in and around Lagos.

Answer :

a) If you wanted to travel to Dona Ana, which route would you use?

b) Which method of transport is the quickest to get to Meia Praia?

c) Which terminus will you need to use if you want to travel on Routes 3, 5 and 9?

d) You need to go to the Health Centre. Describe the route and method of transport you will use.

e) What structure connects the bus station to the railway station?

f) You urgently need to visit your sick aunt in Montes Juntos. Give a reason why it might not be possible for you to make the journey.

Question No. 36

On 26 December 2004, many of the coastal towns bordering the Indian Ocean were devastated by a tsunami wave. The chart shows the height of a typical tsunami wave.

Answer :

a) What is the height of the wave?

b) What is the difference in height between a human and the wave?

c) What is the difference in height between the wave and a house?

d) How much taller is an elephant than a man?

Question No. 37

Dayo and Dotun work for a courier company that offers an overnight service. This means they promise to deliver the items at the destination by 8 o’clock in the morning. They both travel from Benin City to Lagos in two different delivery vans of the same model and engine capacity to deliver packages. The table below shows the distance travelled by each over time. Use the table to answer the following questions.

Answer :

a) Did the two vans leave the starting point at the same time? Give a reason for your answer

b) At what time(s) were the two delivery vans 40 km apart?

c) Calculate the average speed of each driver at 04:00. Use the formula speed = distance ÷ time.

Question No. 38

“Flip a coin” Prediction for most frequent outcome: Heads/Tails

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Question No. 39

“Roll 1 die” Prediction for most frequent outcome: 1 2 3 4 5 6

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Question No. 40

“Pick a card colour” Prediction for most frequent outcome: Red/Black

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Question No. 41

“Pick a card suit” Prediction for most frequent outcome: Clubs (♣)/Spades (♠)/Diamonds (♦)/Hearts (♥)

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Question No. 42

“Pick an exact card”

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Question No. 43

In which game of chance were your predictions most accurate?

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Question No. 44

Complete the table below, writing down the probability for each event. Use the results from your experiments in Questions 1 to 5 to calculate the experimental probabilities.

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Question No. 45

Compare the theoretical and experimental probabilities for each game of chance. Were the theoretical and experimental probabilities in your experiments close to each other?

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Question No. 46

Consider the spinner below.

Answer :

a) What is the probability of choosing an odd number?

b) What is the probability of choosing an even number?

c) What is the probability of choosing a prime number?

d) What is the probability of choosing 1 or 5?

e) What is the probability of choosing 3 or 4?

Question No. 47

There are 5 white balls, 8 red balls, 7 yellow balls and 4 green balls in a container. A ball is chosen at random. Give all your answers as a fraction, a decimal and a percentage.

Answer :

a) What is the probability of choosing red?

b) What is the probability of choosing green?

c) What is the probability of choosing either red or white?

d) What is the probability of choosing neither white nor green?

e) What is the probability of choosing other than yellow?

f) What is the probability of choosing black?

Question No. 48

Identify more likely, less likely, equally likely, sure and impossible events.

Answer :

a) Selecting of a white ball from a box with 5 white balls, 8 red balls and 10 yellow balls.

b) Selecting of a black card from a deck of cards.

c) The chance of getting an even number when a die is rolled.

d) Selecting of a red marble from a box with 12 white marbles.

e) Selecting of a red marble from a box with 12 white balls.

f) Selecting a boy for a field trip from a group of 35 students, of which 12 are girls.

Question No. 49

A month is chosen from a year.

Answer :

a) Find the probability of selecting a month with 31 days.

b) Find the probability of selecting a month ending with the letter Y.

c) Find the probability of selecting a month ending with the letter R.

d) Find the probability of choosing a month either starting with the letter J or ending with the letter Y.

e) Find the probability of selecting a month that starts with the letter J and ends with the letter Y.

Question No. 50

A die, numbered 1 to 6, is rolled once. What is the probability that a 5 is gotten?

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Question No. 51

A wardrobe contains 3 blue shirts and 4 white shirts. A shirt is selected at random from the wardrobe. Find the probability that a white shirt is selected.

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Question No. 52

A box has 6 packets of chewing gum. A packet is selected at random from the box. Find the probability that it is a chocolate.

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Question No. 53

The probability of an event happening is: Find the probability of the event failing to happen in each case.

Answer :

a) 3/4

b) 7/8

c) 12/17

d) 4/31

e) 17/19

Question No. 54

A bag contains 11 green balls and 14 yellow balls. A ball is selected at random from the bag. Find the probability that it is:

Answer :

a) green

b) yellow

Question No. 55

Mayowa has a bag containing 10 oranges and 7 apples. He selects a fruit at random from the bag. What is the chance of it being an apple?

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Question No. 56

A number is selected at random from the set (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10). Find the probability that it is:

Answer :

a) odd

b) even

Question No. 57

From the set of numbers 1 to 20, a number is selected. Find the probability that it is:

Answer :

a) odd

b) even

Question No. 58

A letter is selected at random from the English alphabet. Find the probability that it is:

Answer :

a) a vowel

b) a consonant.

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