FIRST TERM, SSS 2 MATHEMATICS MID TERM TEST, 2025/2026 SESSION.

Objective - Attempt all questions

1. The length of a piece of stick is 175m. A boy measured as 180m, calculate the percentage error in the measurement.

2. Evaluate Log 1/81 base 9

3. Bar 4 point 3217 ÷ 3

4. Bar 6 point 0 minus bar 1 point 8

5. Find the antilogarithm of 1. 372

6. The number 186247 is correct to 186000. Which of the following can correctly describe as the degree of approximation made? (i) To the nearest hundred. (ii) to the nearest thousand. (iii) to 3 significant figures. (iv)to 4 significant figures.

7. What is the range of values of values of the population of Nigeria which is 150 million to the nearest 10 million?

8. A parking space for a car is 3m wide. How many cars can be parked in a garage which is 17 m wide?

9. Which of these is equal to a² - b² ?

10. Factorise u² - 5vu + 6v²

Theory ( Attempt five questions only)

1. The length of a book is given as 25cm to the nearest cm. (a) Find the range of its actual length. (b) Calculate the percentage error.

2a. Without using calculator or table, estimate the value of (86.2 × 0.98) divided by (2.78) by rounding off to 1 significant figure. ( b) Round off 235478 to the nearest hundred.

3. Use table to calculate (709.3 × 0.09) divided by (2.9 × 8.7)

4. Simplify d² - 9 divided by d² - 7d + 12

5. Evaluate (a) Log x base 10 = 5 (b)Log 343 base 7 = x

6. Given y³ = Log 100 000 000 base 10. Find y.