General Mathematics Paper 2, WASSCE 2ND series 2019

Question 12

  1. A town J is 20km from a lorry station, K on a bearing 065°. Another town, T is 8km from K on

    a bearing 155°. Calculate:


    1. to the nearest kilometer, the distance of T from J;

    2. to the nearest degree, the bearing of T from J


Observation

The Chief Examiner reported that majority of the candidates’ performed poorly in this question.

In part (a) (i),they had difficulties drawing the diagram and hence lost all the marks allocated to this part. The expected diagram is