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PART A (Questions 1 to 25 ) For each question, choose the best answer and write the letter A, B, C or D in the space next to the question number on the ANSWER SHEET. QUESTION 1 What is the value of x?
1 4 × 3 6
x A. 3 B. 4 C. 8 D. 24 QUESTION 2 Below is a number line. S T –0.25 0 0.25 0.50 0.75 1. What is the distance between S and T? A. 0.45 units B. 0.50 units C. – 0.50 units D. 1 unit QUESTION 3 The red, green, and black lollies in a packet are in the ratio of 2:3: How many green lollies and black lollies are there, if there are 10 red lollies? A. 6 green lollies and 15 black lollies B. 15 green lollies and 25 black lollies C. 25 green lollies and 15 black lollies D. 20 green lollies and 25 black lollies
QUESTION 4
Add the following fractions and give your answer in decimal. €
2 + 2
1000
- 1 10
- 3 100 = A. 2.213 B. 2. C. 2.321 D. 2. QUESTION 5
What is the price of a K70.00 fan, after a discount of 20%? A. K14 B. K C. K56 D. K QUESTION 6 Simplify 20 – 5. A. – 4 B. – €
4 1
2 C. € 4 1 2 D. 4 QUESTION 7
Mark worked on a garden plot, 20.8 m long and 11.5 m wide. Calculate the perimeter of Mark’s garden. Give your answer in centimetres. A. 6 460 B. 3 230 C. 64.6 D. 32. QUESTION 8 Villages A and B are located on a map which was drawn to a scale of 1 cm = 10 000 m. The two villages are 20 cm apart on the map. What is the real distance in kilometres between the two villages? A. 10 B. 200 C. 20 000 D. 200 000
QUESTION 9
The diagram shows a rectangle. Its measurements are as indicated. 6 cm 12 cm 6 cm The shaded area of the rectangle is; A. 72 cm^2 B. 54 cm^2 C. 36 cm^2 D. 18 cm^2 QUESTION 10 The diagram below shows a circle with the diameter of 14 cm. 14 cm Calculate the area of the shaded part of the circle. Give your answer in cm^2. ( Use π = 227 ) A. 22 B. 44 C. 77 D. 154 QUESTION 11 A 5 litre cordial was served equally to 10 students. How much cordial did each student drink? Give your answer in millilitres. A. 0.05 B. 0. C. 50 D. 500
QUESTION 12
Which of the following figures is not a parallelogram? A (^) B C D QUESTION 13 What is the value of x? 3 x 2 x – 45 A. 0
30 B.
0
C.
0
90 D.
0
QUESTION 14
Which of these Points A, B, C or D represents the coordinates (2, - 3)? –3 –2 –1 1 2 3 2 1 3
A
C B
D
QUESTION 21
What is the total number of children in the village? A. 50 B. 45 C. 14 D. 12 QUESTION 22 How many households have more than two children? A. 10 B. 11 C. 13 D. 14 QUESTION 23 Mary is x years old. Ben is 5 years older than Mary. Jack is 3 years older than Ben. The sum of their ages is 40. Which equation represents the information? A. x + 8 = 40 B. 3 x + 8 = 40 C. x + 13 = 40 D. 3 x + 13 = 40 QUESTION 24 Simplify the expression; 6 a + 2( a + 4) A. 8( a + 24) B. 8( a + 2) C. 8( a + 1) D. 8( a + 4) QUESTION 25 In the expression 4 x 2 yz 3
- 2 xyz 2 , What is the highest common factor? A. 4 x^2 y z^3 B. 2 xyz^2 C. 8 x 3 y 2 z 5 D. 8 xyz TURN TO THE NEXT PAGE FOR PART B
PART B (Questions 26 to 45 ) For each question in this part work out the correct answer and write it in the space provided on the ANSWER SHEET. (1 mark each, total: 20 marks) QUESTION 26 What number multiplied by 3 gives 162 as the product? QUESTION 27 A car uses 10 litres of petrol to travel 25 km. Calculate the amount of petrol in litres needed to travel 100 km. QUESTION 28 A commission of five percent is paid to a salesman who sold an electrical item for K200.00. How much money is he paid as commission? QUESTION 29 Three boys buy 15 oranges. They share all 15 oranges among themselves. The first boy gets 6 oranges. The second boy gets 3 oranges. What percentage of the oranges did the third boy get? QUESTION 30 The diagram shows 3 identical circles with a radius of 4 cm each. Find the area of the triangle in cm 2 ?
QUESTION 31
The circle below has a diametre of 35 cm. Calculate its circumference. Give your answer in centimetres. (Use π = €
35 cm QUESTION 32 A bucket holds 8.8 litres of water. How many times would a container holding 880 ml fill the bucket? QUESTION 33 The diagram shows two parallel lines and a transversal cutting through them. Find the size of the angle marked with letter x. x º 115º Questions 3 4 and 35 refer to the following information. This graph shows Raka’s trip to visit his friend. time of the day 09 am 10 am 11 am 12 noon 1 pm 2 pm 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 QUESTION 34 What is Raka’s average speed in km/h in the first 3 hours of his trip?
PART C (Question 46) QUESTION 46 Answer questions relating to the following polygons. W X Y Z (i) What is the minimum number of triangles you can get from the polygon X? (ii) What is the interior angle sum in the polygon Y? (iii) If all the angles in polygon Z were all right angled, what would the polygon be? (iv) The two arrows on the opposite side of the polygon X indicates that the two lines are ____. (v) Which polygon W, X Y or Z would use A= € 1 2 bh to calculate its area? END OF EXAMINATION
