BECE 2025 - MATHEMATICS [PAPER I]
1. How long will the simple interest for GH¢ 50.00 at 12% per annum be GH¢ 132.00?
A. 1 year
B. 2 years
C. 4 years
D. 12 years
2. Expand and simplify: .
A.
B.
C.
D.
3. The area of a rectangular card is 15 cm². If each side of the card is enlarged by a scale factor 3, find the area of the enlarged card.
A. 45 cm²
B. 75 cm²
C. 90 cm²
D. 135 cm²
4. Factorize: .
A.
B.
C.
D.
5. Mr Ado bought 120 bags of maize for his farm animals. If he used 120 bags to feed the animals, find the percentage of the maize left.
A. 70%
B. 60%
C. 50%
D. 40%
6. A man spends GH¢ 560.00 out of his weekly wage of GH¢ 700.00 and saves the rest. What percent age did he save?
A. 10%
B. 15%
C. 20%
D. 25%
7. Solve: .
A.
B.
C.
D.
8. Esi made sales of 15 twenty-cedi notes, 14 ten-cedi notes, and 15 two-cedi notes. Find her total sales.
A. GH¢ 305.00
B. GH¢ 440.00
C. GH¢ 470.00
D. GH¢ 740.00
9. When 0.24 is expressed in its lowest form, the denominator is:
A. 5
B. 25
C. 125
D. 250
10. Solve: .
A.
B.
C.
D.
11. A rectangular container with dimensions 5 m by 3 m by n m is two-third full of water. Find the volume occupied by the water in the container
A. 50 m³
B. 40 m³
C. 30 m³
D. 20 m³
12. Anna is three times as old as Kofi. Their combined age is 40. How old is Anna?
A. 10 years
B. 30 years
C. 37 years
D. 43 years
13. A point (-2, 3) is reflected in the x-axis. Find the image of the point.
A.
B.
C.
D.
14. A farmer feeds 20 goats with 500 kg of cassava. How many goats can be fed with 200 kg of cassava?
A. 2
B. 5
C. 8
D. 10
15. In an examination, Abu answered nine questions in 2 hours. He spent 20 minutes on the first question and the same time on each of the remaining questions. How many minutes did he spend on each of the other questions?
A. 8.0 minutes
B. 10.0 minutes
C. 12.0 minutes
D. 12.5 minutes
16. A trader sold half of a piece of cloth and used two-fifths of the remaining to sew a dress. What fraction of the cloth was left?
A.
B.
C.
D.
17. Solve :
A.
B.
C.
D.
18. A boy walked round a circular pond once. If the radius of the pond is 28 m, find the distance covered.
(Take ):
A. 44 m
B. 88 m
C. 176 m
D. 252 m
19. The points M(1, 3) and N(4, 5) are in the number plane. Find the vector MN.
A.B.
C.
D.
20. Find the rule for the mapping :
A.
B.
C.
D.
21. If find x when :
A.
B.
C. 0
D. 1
22. Given that y
A. 0.08
B. 0.8
C. 8.0
D. 80.0
23. Find the gradient of the line which passes through the points (2, 3) and (4, 5).
A.
B.
C. 1
D. 3
24. Two interior angles of a triangle are ( and . Find an expression for the third angle.
A.
B.
C.
D.
25. If and , find :
A.
B.
C.
D.
26. It costs a carpenter GH¢ 24.00 to make a chair. How much should he sell it for to make a profit of 40%?
A. GH¢ 15.00
B. GH¢ 35.00
C. GH¢ 40.00
D. GH¢ 50.00
27. Ama has 4 one cedi notes and orders an ice cream for GH¢ 1.75 and two toffees at 50 GP each. How much does she have left?
A. GH¢ 1.25
B. GH¢ 1.75
C. GH¢ 2.25
D. GH¢ 2.75
28. A trader received a commission of 5% on goods sold at GH¢ 25,000.00. Find the commission.
A. GH¢ 1,250.00
B. GH¢ 1,200.00
C. GH¢ 1,100.00
D. GH¢ 1,000.00
29. Which of the following inequalities is represented on the number line?
A.
B.
C.
D.
30. Multiply by :
A.
B.
C.
D.
31. The population of a town is 56782. What is the number to three significant figures?
A. 567
B. 568
C. 56,700
D. 56,800
32. Find the largest value of these numbers: -11, -6, 0, -3.
A. 0
B. -1
C. -3
D. -6
33. A box contains 10 green and 8 white balls of the same size. If a ball is selected at random from the box, what is the probability that it is green?
A. 1/10
B. 5/9
C. 9/4
D. 2/9
34. Express 36 as a product of primes.
A.
B.
C.
D.
35. Describe the set of M = {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19} in words.
A. M = {odd numbers less than 20}
B. M = {factors of 19}
C. M = {prime numbers less than 20}
D. M = {whole numbers less than 20}
36. A survey shows that 28.8% of all the men in a village are vegetarian. What is the probability that a man selected at random from the village is a vegetarian?
A. 2/5
B. 4/1
C. 5/0
D. 2/7
37. Given that P = {2, 4, 6, 8, 10} and Q = {1, 2, 16, 20}, find the number of (P ∩ Q).
A. 12
B. 18
C. 24
D. 32
38. Anowo scored an average of 53 in Science and Mathematics. If she scored 50 and 60 in English and Social Studies respectively, find her average score in all the four subjects.
A. 53
B. 54
C. 55
D. 56
39. What is the missing number in the sequence: -5, -2, …, 7?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
40. Charles and Helen started a business with an amount of GH¢7,000.00. If their contributions were in the ratio 4:3 respectively, find Helen's contribution.
A. GH¢ 2,500.00
B. GH¢ 3,000.00
C. GH¢ 4,000.00
D. GH¢ 5,000.00