Download Mathematics Questions for Basic 7 to 9 – [Recommended for 2024 BECE Candidates]
Download Mathematics Questions for Basic 7 to 9 – [Recommended for 2024 BECE Candidates]
These questions are prepared for both students and teachers at the junior high level of the basic school. Questions are carefully selected from relevant topics in the newly NaCCA curriculum used by schools across the country.
Candidates preparing to sit for the Basic Education Examination Certificate should also make it a point to tackle all these questions.
Check out the questions below
Mathematics Questions for Basic 7 to 9 – Set 1
- A bag contains 4 blue and 8 black balls. What is the probability in decimal of picking a black ball at random from the bag?
- A bag contains 12 green, 4 red and
8 yellow balls. What is the probability expressed in percentage of picking yellow ball from the bag?
- Maakua throws a die once. What is the probability of getting an even number?. Express your answer as a ratio.
- Cards are numbered from 10 to 20. If two cards are picked at random one after the other with replacement. What is the probability in decimal of picking the first card which is an odd number?
Set 2- Mathematics Questions for Basic 7 to 9
- A bag contains 4 red and6 black balls. A ball is selected at random from the bag after which it is replaced and a second ball selected. Using a tree diagram, what is the probability that: the first ball selected is red
- the second ball selected is red if the first ball was also red. Express your answer in decimal.
- the second ball selected is black if the first ball was red. Express your answer in percentage.
Set 3 – Mathematics Questions for Basic 7 to 9
- (a) Using a pair of compasses and ruler only,
- Construct triangle ABC Such that |AB|=1Ocm, angle ABC = 30o and |BC| =8cm. Measure angle ACB.
- Construct a perpendicular rom C to meet line AB at D. Measure CD.
(b) Calculate the area of triangle ABC
- Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only:
(a) Construct triangle ABC in which
|AB| = 6cm, | AC] = 10cm and
| BC| = 8cm. Measure <ABC.
Let the bisectors meet at O.
(b) Construct the perpendicular bisector (mediator) of AB and BC
(c) Construct a circle with centre O and radius |OA”|.
(d) Measure the radius of the circle.
- (a) Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only.
- Construct a triangle ABC such hat
|AB| = 9cm, angle BAC = 60° and angle ABC = 45°.
- Construct a line from the point C perpendicular to AB and let it meet
AB at P. Measure |CP| and |AP|
(b) What is the value of angle ACP?
Questions for Basic 7 to 9 – set 4
- Eight men can do a piece of work in 12 days. How long will 6 men take to do the same work if they work at the same rate?
- A driver takes 30 minutes to complete a journey when he travels at 60km/h, How long will it take to complete the same distance at 50km/h?
- Three (3) pipes take 60 minutes to water the garden. How will it take 6 pipes to water the same portion of garden?
- Five tickets of fare cast GHZ125.00. How much would 25 ticket cost, at the same rate?
- Three boys weeded a piece of land in 4 hours. How long would it take 18 boys to weed the same piece of land weeding at the same rate?
- If 5 men paint a wall in 10 hours, how many hours will 8 men paint the same wall, working at the same rate?
- It takes 6 men, 9 hours to dig a hole 30m deep. How long would it take 10 men to dig the hole if they work at the same rate?
Questions for Basic 7 to 9 – set 5
- Each students of JHS 2 received GH120.00 from the M.C.E. If there are 384 students in the class, what is the total amount of money collected?
- There are 9 columns in classroom. Each column has 15 s seats. How many seats are there in the class?
- A farm has 56 rows of mango trees. If there are 180 trees in each row, What is the total number of trees in the farm?
- Mr. Badu received 900 notes from the bank. If the value of each note is GH50.00, what is the total amount of money received by Mr. Badu?
- Aku receives GH¢2,700.00 a month as salary. How much will she receive as salary in one year?
- A library has 176 shelves. In each shelf there are 350 books. How many books are there in the library?
- Our heat beats in about 72 times in a minute. How many times will it beat an hour?
- A truck has 230 crates of Fanta. If each crate has 24 bottles of Fanta, what is the total number of fata bottles in the truck?
- A group of 376 students went on an excursion, each student paid GH350.00 at t the gate. What is the total amount of money collected at the gate?
Mathematics Questions – set 6
1 Find the simple interest on GH600.00 saved for 2 years 8 months at 5% per annum.
- A man deposited an amount of GH¢50,000.00 at a bank for 2 years at a rate of 20%. Find the simple interest.
- A man deposited GH350,000.00 in his account in a bank. A simple interest of 4% per annum was paid on his deposit,
Calculate the total amount at the end of the 4 years
- A man invests GH50,000.00 at 20% simple interest for 4 years. How much will his investment amount to at the end of this period? [Hint: Find the simple interest first before finding the amount]
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