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NECO Mathematics · Mensuration

Areas: NECO Mathematics Past Questions and Answers

What the WAEC syllabus covers in Areas

Our summary: Finding the area of flat shapes and the surface area of solids.

  • Triangles and special quadrilaterals: rectangles, parallelograms and trapeziums
  • Circles, sectors and segments of circles
  • Surface areas of cubes, cuboids, cylinders, pyramids, right triangular prisms, cones and spheres

Syllabus content © The West African Examinations Council (WASSCE (harmonised West African syllabus)). NECO questions are matched to the WAEC syllabus topic.

NECO Mathematics questions on Areas

  1. NECO 2008A sector of angle 120° is cut out from a circle of radius 13.5cm. what area of the circle is remaining ? (π = 22/7 )
  2. NECO 2008Calculate the area of a parallelogram whose diagonals are of length 8cm and 12cm and intersect at an angle of 135°
  3. NECO 2008The ratio of the base area of a hollow cone to that of its curved surface is 1:4. If its base radius is 7cm, calculate the slant height of the cone
  4. NECO 2005The parallel sides of a trapezium are 13cm and 7cm. If the area of the trapezium is 50cm2, find the perpendicular distance between the parallel sides.
  5. NECO 2005Find the Iength of a diagonal of a square whose area is 288cm2.
  6. NECO 2005The diagonals of a rhombus are 6cm and 8cm. Find the area of the rhombus.
  7. NECO 2004Find the area of a triangle ABC such that a = 16cm, b = 14cm, c = 12cm, leave your answer in surd form
  8. NECO 2004Find the surface area of a sphere whose radius is 3.5cm, correct your answer to one decimal place (π = 22/5 )
  9. NECO 2002A cone was developed from a sector of a circle with radius10cm and an angle at the centre of 108°. What is the radius of the cone?
  10. NECO 2002What is the total surface area of a cylinder with radius 2cm and height 1.5cm, correct to 2 significant figures?
  11. NECO 2002What is the total surface area of a cuboid whose dimensions are 12cm × 8cm × 3cm?
  12. NECO 2001If the volume of a cube is (8 x 10^3 )cm ^3 , what is the surface area of the cube?
  13. NECO 2001The surface area of a sphere is 616m2. what is the volume of-the sphere (correct to two significant figures)? (take π = 3.142)
  14. NECO 2001The radius of a sphere is 21cm. If s and v represent the curved surface area and volume respectively, what is s : v? (take π = 3.142)

Years with Areas questions in DeeepSolve's question bank

From the past questions DeeepSolve holds, not a count of everything the exam body has set.

  • 2008
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • 2002
  • 2001
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