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JAMB Mathematics · Statistics

Measures of Location: JAMB Mathematics Past Questions and Answers

What the JAMB syllabus covers in Measures of Location

Our summary: Finding the typical value of data using mean, mode, median and cumulative frequency.

  • Mean, mode and median of ungrouped and grouped data (simple cases only)
  • Cumulative frequency

Objectives

  • Calculate the mean, mode and median of ungrouped and grouped data (simple cases only)
  • Use ogive to find the median, quartiles and percentiles

Syllabus content © The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (UTME).

JAMB Mathematics questions on Measures of Location

  1. JAMB 2025The mean of the numbers 0, x + 2, 3x + 6, and 4x + 8 is 4, find the value of x.
  2. JAMB 2025The average weight of 15 iron bars is 1000 kg. If the heaviest iron bar is removed, the average weight is reduced by 5 kg. Find the weight in kg of the heaviest…
  3. JAMB 2024Which of the following is a measure of central tendency?
  4. JAMB 2024The scores of students in a test are recorded as follows: 4, 3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 3, and 5. Find the mode of the mark.
  5. JAMB 2024The weights of 15 students in a class are given as 25, 30, 32, 30, 42, 45, 48, 50, 52, 51, 42, 38, 40, and 42. What is the mode of the given data?
  6. JAMB 2024The mean of the numbers 13, 16, x, 18, 21, 2x, 35, is 22. Find the value of x
  7. JAMB 2022If the mean of 2, 5, (x+1), (x+2), 7 and 9 is 6. Find the median
  8. JAMB 2022Calculate the median of 14, 17, 10, 13, 18 and 10.
  9. JAMB 2021The mean of ten positive numbers is 16. When another number is added, the mean becomes 18. Find the eleventh number
  10. JAMB 2020The goals scored by 40 football teams from three league divisions are recorded below No of goals 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Frequency 4 3 15 16 1 0 1 What is the total…
  11. JAMB 2020The mean age group of some students is 15years. When the age of a teacher, 45 years old, is added to the ages of the students, the mean of their ages become 18…
  12. JAMB 2020Find the median of the numbers 89, 141, 130, 161, 120, 131, 131, 100, 108 and 119
  13. JAMB 2019Score (x) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Freq (f) 5 7 3 7 11 6 7 Find the mean of the data.
  14. JAMB 2018Find the average of the first four prime numbers greater than 10
  15. JAMB 2017Find the sum of the range and the mode of the set of numbers 10, 9, 10, 9, 8, 7, 7, 10, 8, 10, 8, 4, 6, 9, 10, 9, 7, 10, 6, 5
  16. JAMB 2016OGIVE is constructed using
  17. JAMB 2016Find the mean of 10, 8, 5, 11, 12, 9, 6, 3, 15, and 23.
  18. JAMB 2016If the mean of 4, y, 8 and 10 is 7. Find Y?
  19. JAMB 2014The mean of 2 - t, 4 + t, 3 - 2t, 2 + t and t - 1 is
  20. JAMB 2014c c Values 0 1 2 3 4 Frequency 1 2 2 1 9 Find the mode of the distribution above
  21. JAMB 2014Find the median of 5,9,1,10,3,8,9,2,4,5,5,5,7,3 and 6
  22. JAMB 2013The mean of seven numbers is 10. If six of the numbers are 2, 4, 8, 14, 16 and 18, find the mode.
  23. JAMB 2013Find the mean of t + 2, 2t - 4, 3t + 2 and 2t.
  24. JAMB 2012Find the median of 2,3,7,3,4,5,8,9,9,4,5,3,4,2,4 and 5
  25. JAMB 2012The mean of seven numbers is 96. If an eighth number is added, the mean becomes 112. Find the eighth number.

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