Geography Paper 3 WASSCE (PC), 2017

Question 2

 

The table below shows the quantity of cocoa (in thousand killogrammes) produced by four cocoa producing countries in West Africa between year 2002 and 2004. 

Use the table to answer the questions that follow.    


Country

2002

2003

2004

P

100

200

300

Q

300

400

500

R

700

800

900

 S

200

300

400

  1.  Calculate the total amount of cocoa production in the four countries between year 2002 and 2004.
  2. Construct a pie chart to show the quantity of cocoa produced in the year 2003 by the four countries.

Observation

The question was fairly popular among the candidates and their performance was at average level.  Most of the candidates who answered the question gave the answer to 2 (a) as, 600 instead of 600, 000kg. Many of the candidates who answered the question got the sectors of the pie chart correctly and quite a good percentage of the candidates drew the pie chart rightly.