MCQ Questions

Question No. 1

A boy has collected 1 638 stamps. If he is given a further 1 429 stamps, how many does he have altogether?

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Question No. 2

Femi is 15 years older than Tayo, and Tayo is 10 years older than Onyemachi. If Onyemachi is 18 years old, what is their total age?

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Question No. 3

A library had 2 596 books. How many more did it buy to have a total of 4 220 books?

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Question No. 4

The temperature of a room dropped from 24 °C to –10 °C. What is the total drop in temperature?

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Question No. 5

A farmer sold 58 baskets of tomatoes in a day. If each basket weighed 13 kg, what was the total weight of the tomatoes he sold in a day?

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Question No. 6

3 000 ℓ of kerosene were sold in equal quantities to 40 retailers. What quantity did each retailer receive?

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Question No. 7

Ayanti had ₦24 to spend on seven pencils. After buying them, she had ₦10 left over. How much did each pencil cost?

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Question No. 8

You bought a magazine for ₦5, as well as four erasers. You spent a total of ₦25. How much did each eraser cost?

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Question No. 9

Adankwo earns ₦1 500 per hour. If she works six hours a day for ten days, how much will she be paid?

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Question No. 10

Last week, Daraja ran 30 km more than Chinyere. If Daraja ran 47 km, how many km did Chinyere run?

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Question No. 11

At a restaurant, Edidiong and his three friends decided to divide the bill evenly. If each person paid ₦13, what was the total bill?

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Question No. 12

After paying ₦990 for a lunch, Ingebedion has ₦5 500 left. How much money did he have before buying lunch?

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Question No. 13

Tunde baked some cookies for her grandmother. She baked a dozen chocolate chip cookies, two dozen oatmeal cookies, and nine sugar cookies. How many cookies did she bake?

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Question No. 14

Iyawa bought two blouses at ₦7 150 each, four skirts for ₦8 300, and a pair of shoes for ₦13 000. What was the total cost of her shopping trip?

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Question No. 15

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

Question No. 16

Solve the following word problems by setting up an equation.

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a) If five is added to three times a certain number, the result is 17. What is the number?

b) When four is added to a certain number and the result is doubled, the answer is 14. What is the number?

c) When five is added to a certain number, the answer is the same as subtracting one from the number and multiplying the result by 4. Find the number.

d) A rectangle has length (x + 7) cm and width (x + 1) cm. Given that the perimeter of the rectangle is 28 cm, find the length and width of this rectangle

e) Imbiana spent 90 minutes doing her homework. She spent t minutes doing Mathematics, 2t minutes doing Physics and the remaining (t + 14) minutes studying Chemistry. How many minutes did she spend doing Mathematics?

f) A woman at the market was selling oranges and grapefruit. Each orange cost ₦40 and each grapefruit cost ₦100. She had twice as many oranges as grapefruit. She sold all the fruit and received ₦3 600. How many grapefruit did she have?

Question No. 17

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

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a) x + 3 = 8

b) 155 − 35 = s + 21

c) 3y + 16 = 6v − 2

d) 6u − 60 = 3u − 15

e) x/5 = 30

f) y/4 = 12

Question No. 18

Adoma has 4 ℓ of water in her water bottle. She gives 1½ ℓ to her friend Anuli. How much water is left in her bottle?

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Question No. 19

Three‐fifths of the students of a class are girls, and there are 36 girls in the class. How many students are there in this class?

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Question No. 20

The sum of ₦2 800 is to be shared among three students – Ekong, Isoken and Hassana. Ekong has 2/8 of the money, Isoken takes 3/7 of it and the rest goes to Hassana. How much does Hassana get?

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Question No. 21

A school has 1 000 students and 600 of them are boys. What fraction of the student population is girls?

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Question No. 22

At the beginning of the week, Abomeli is given ₦5 000 as his allowance. He uses 5/2 of this as taxi fare to school for the week and 1/4 of this amount for all his lunch breaks.

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a) How much money does he use for the week’s expenses?

b) What fraction of the money does he have left at the end of the week?

c) He wants to buy a book that costs ₦9 000. How many weeks will it take him to save enough money for the book?

Question No. 23

How many fifths are there in 200?

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Question No. 24

The product of 9/5 and a number is 63. Find the number.

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Question No. 25

Six‐sevenths of a number is 36. Find the number.

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Question No. 26

How many times can 1/4 be subtracted from 2?

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Question No. 27

2/5 of a class of 45 are boys. Find the number of girls in the class.

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Question No. 28

Aigbekaen drank orange juice from a 500 ml bottle. He found that 2/5 remained. How much did he drink?

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Question No. 29

Emem and two of his friends ate one‐fourth each of an eight‐slice pizza. What fraction of the pizza remains?

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Question No. 30

Out of a class of 150, one‐third of the students opted to learn German, two‐fifths chose Italian and the rest chose French. Find how many students wanted to learn French.

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Question No. 31

Fifty divided by one‐half minus forty. What is the answer?

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Question No. 32

Ninety‐five divided by one‐fifth plus thirty‐five. What is the answer?

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Question No. 33

Nike spends 1/4 of her pocket money on chocolates and 1/8 on pizza. At the end she had ₦2 000 left. How much did she have at the beginning?

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Question No. 34

At 10:00 during the school day, Shalewa calculates that he has 1½ hours of Mathematics, 3/4 of an hour English and 1/2 hour of Geography left. At what time will the bell ring for the end of the day?

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Question No. 35

Eniola has a cake recipe that requires 3/4 kg of flour, 1 kg of nuts, 1½ kg of sugar and 1/2 kg of butter for each cake.

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a) How much flour will she need for two cakes?

b) How much flour, nuts and sugar will she need for five cakes?

c) How much of each ingredient will she need for seven cakes?

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