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WAEC (WASSCE) Mathematics · Mensuration

Areas: WAEC 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)).

WAEC (WASSCE) Mathematics questions on Areas

  1. WAEC 2024The length and breadth of a cuboid are 15 cm and 8 cm respectively. If the volume of the cuboid is 1560 cm ^3 , calculate the total surface area.
  2. WAEC 2024A cylindrical metallic barrel of height 2.5m and radius 0.245 is closed at one end. Find, correct to one decimal place, the total surface area of the barrel…
  3. WAEC 2024Two opposite sides of a rectangle are (5x + 3) m and (2x + 9) m. If an adjacent side is (6x - 7) m, find in m ^2 , the area of the rectangle.
  4. WAEC 2023The radius and height of a solid cylinder is 8 cm and 14 cm respectively. Find, correct to two d.p the total surface area. (Take = 22/7)
  5. WAEC 2023The length of the diagonal of a square is 12 cm. Calculate the area of the square.
  6. WAEC 2023The angle of a sector of a circle of radius 3.4 cm is 115°. Find the area of the sector. (Take = 22/7)
  7. WAEC 2022A rectangle with width 3/4 cm and area 3 3/8 cm ^2 . Find the length
  8. WAEC 2022The length of a rectangle is 10 cm. If its perimeter is 28 cm, find the area
  9. WAEC 2022The lengths of the parallel sides of a trapezium are 9cm and 12cm. If the area of the trapezium is 105cm ^2 , find the perpendicular distance between the…
  10. WAEC 2022A cylinder, opened at one end, has a radius of 3.5cm and height 8cm. calculate the total surface area
  11. WAEC 2021A trapezium of parellel sides 10cm and 21cm and height 8cm is inscribed in a circle of radius 7cm. calculate the area of the region not covered by the…
  12. WAEC 2021A cone has a base radius of 8cm and height 11cm. calculate , correct to 2d.p, the curved surface area
  13. WAEC 2020A solid cuboid has a length of 7 cm, a width of 5 cm, and a height of 4 cm. Calculate its total surface area.
  14. WAEC 2019A rectangular board has a length of 15cm and width x cm. If its sides are doubled, find its new area.
  15. WAEC 2019The total surface area of a solid cylinder 165cm ^2 . Of the base diameter is 7cm, calculate its height. [Take = 22/7 ]
  16. WAEC 2018The surface area of a sphere is 792/7 cm^2 . Find, correct to the nearest whole number, its volume. [Take = 22/7 ]
  17. WAEC 2018The total surface area of a hemispher is 75 cm^2 . Find the radius.
  18. WAEC 2017A circular pond of radius 4m has a path of width 2.5m round it. Find, correct to two decimal places, the area of the path. [Take 22/7 ]
  19. WAEC 2017If the total surface area of a solid hemisphere is equal to its volume, find the radius
  20. WAEC 2016The curve surface area of a cylinder, 5cm high is 110cm 2. Find the radius of its base. [Take = 22/7 ]
  21. WAEC 2015The area of a rhombus is 110 cm ^2 . If the diagonals are 20 cm and (2x + 1) cm long, find the value of x.
  22. WAEC 2014The area of a sector a circle with diameter 12cm is 66cm2. If the sector is folded to form a cone, calculate the radius of the base of the cone [Take = 22/7 ]
  23. WAEC 2014In parallelogram PQRS, QR is produced to M such that QR = RM . What fraction of the area of PQMS is the area of PRMS?
  24. WAEC 2013An open cone with base radius 28cm and perpendicular height 96cm was stretched to form sector of a circle. calculate the arc of the sector (Take = 22/7 )
  25. WAEC 2012A side and a diagonal of a rhombus are 10cm and 12cm respectively, Find its area
  26. WAEC 2012The curved surface area of a cylindrical tin is 704cm2. If the radius of its base is 8cm, find the height. [Take = 22/7 ]
  27. WAEC 2012The volume of a cuboid is 54cm3. If the length, width and height of the cuboid are in the ratio 2:1:1 respectively, find its total surface area
  28. WAEC 2011The cross section section of a uniform prism is a right-angled triangle with sides 3cm. 4cm and 5cm. If its length is 10cm. Calculate the total surface area
  29. WAEC 2010What is the length of a rectangular garden whose perimeter is 32cm and area 39cm2?

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