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    This document is the mid-year examination for Secondary 2 Express level Elementary Mathematics from Admiralty Secondary School. It consists of 9 questions testing various math skills like scale conversions, proportional relationships, algebraic expressions, factorizing, simplifying expressions, solving simultaneous equations, and graphing functions. Students are instructed to show their work and write their answers neatly. The exam is out of 50 marks and lasts 1 hour.

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    This document is the mid-year examination for Secondary 2 Express level Elementary Mathematics from Admiralty Secondary School. It consists of 9 questions testing various math skills like scale conversions, proportional relationships, algebraic expressions, factorizing, simplifying expressions, solving simultaneous equations, and graphing functions. Students are instructed to show their work and write their answers neatly. The exam is out of 50 marks and lasts 1 hour.

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    NAME: NO: CLASS:

    ADMIRALTY SECONDARY SCHOOL

    MID-YEAR EXAMINATION 2013

    SUBJECT : Elementary Mathematics

    PAPER :1

    LEVEL/STREAM : Sec 2 Express

    DATE : 15 May 2013

    TIME : 1020hrs – 1120hrs

    DURATION : 1 hour

    Instructions to candidates:

    1. Write your name, class and index number.

    2. Answer ALL questions. Tie your writing papers separately from the question paper
    using the thread provided.

    3. Use an electronic calculator to evaluate explicit numerical expressions.


    If the degree of accuracy is not specified in the question, and if the answer is not
    exact, give the answer to three significant figures.

    Give answers in degrees to one decimal place. For  , use either your calculator
    value or 3.142, unless the question requires the answer in terms of  .

    4. Essential workings must be shown. Omission of essential workings and illegible


    handwriting will lead to loss of marks.

    50
    DO NOT TURN OVER THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.
    ______________________________________________________________
    This question paper consists of 8 printed pages including this cover page.

    1. On a map, 8cm represents an actual distance of 20km.


    2

    1
    (a)
    Express the map scale in the form of r .
    (b) The actual length of a road is 16km. Find the length of the road on the map, in cm.

    Answer: (a) ………………… [2]

    (b) ………………cm [2]

    2. A map has a scale of 1 : 45 000.


    (a) Find the actual area of a field, in km2, given that the area of the field on the map is
    4cm2.
    (b) Find the area of a pond on the map, in cm2, given that the actual area of the pond
    is 162 000m2.

    Answer: (a) ……………… km2 [3]

    (b) ……………… cm2 [2]


    3. Given that y is directly proportional to √ x and when y = 1, x = 16.
    Find the value of x when y = 0.1, giving your answer correct to two decimal places.
    3

    Answer: …………………… [3]

    4. Expand and simplify the following.


    (a) −2(2x – 3)2
    (b) (x2 + 2x)(x – 3)

    Answer: (a) ……………………… [2]

    (b) ……………………… [2]


    5. Factorize the following completely.
    (a) 9m2 + 3mk – 6m – 2k
    (b) 3p2 – 16p + 20
    4

    (c) 27 – 12x2

    Answer: (a) ……………………… [2]

    (b) ……………………… [2]

    (c) ……………………… [2]


    6. Simplify the following expressions.
    (a) 6 p2q4
    3 p3 q
    5

    (b) 2m+6+ km+ 3 k


    2
    (m+ 3)
    (c) 3x 6 x2 +6 x
    ×
    3 x +3 4 x2
    (d) 2 y2 y3
    ÷ 2
    w+2 w −4

    Answer: (a) …………………………… [1]

    (b) …………………………… [3]

    (c) …………………………… [3]

    (d) …………………………… [3]


    7. Triangle ABC is enlarged to triangle PQR. The figures below are not drawn to scale.
    6

    Find
    (a) the scale factor,
    (b) the length of e,
    (c) the length of f.

    Answer: (a) ……………………… [1]

    (b) ……………………cm [1]

    (c) ……………………cm [1]

    8. Solve the following simultaneous equations.


    (a) x + 3y = 7
    7

    3x – y = 6

    Answer: (a) x = ………………

    y = ……………… [3]
    (b) x + 2y = 10
    2 x +1
    =3
    y

    Answer: (b) x = ………………

    y = ……………… [4]
    8

    9. Answer the whole question on a sheet of graph paper.


    Write your answers to questions (a), (c) and (e) on the back of the graph paper.

    The variables x and y are connected by the equation


    3
    y= x −1
    2
    Some corresponding values of x and y are given in the following table.

    x –2 –1 0 1 2
    y −4 p −1 q 2

    (a) Find the value of p and q. [2]


    (b) Using a scale of 2 cm to 1 unit, draw a horizontal x-axis for −2 ≤ x ≤ 2.
    Using a scale of 2 cm to 1 unit, draw a vertical y-axis for −4 ≤ y ≤ 4.
    3
    On your axes, plot the graph for equation y= x −1. [3]
    2
    (c) Copy and complete the following table of values of x and y for the equation:
    y=−x+1
    x −2 0 2 [1]
    y
    (d) On the same axes, plot the graph for equation y=−x+1 for
    −2 ≤ x ≤ 2. [1]
    (e) 3
    Hence, solve the simultaneous equations y= x −1 and y=−x+1
    2
    [1]
    graphically.

    END OF PAPER

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