Math Practice Test Question-1

Name Campus
Math practice test question

Instructions
• Download the given sheet and write on this.
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name and campus.
• Answer all questions.
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided – there may be more space than you need.
• For section A, circle the correct answer and use the space beside of the question for rough
work.
• You must show all your working and give the reasons for section B and section C.
• Diagrams are NOT accurately drawn, unless otherwise indicated.
• Calculators can be used.
Information
• The total mark for this paper is 100
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets – use this as a guide as to how much time to
spend on each question.
Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Try to answer every question.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end.
Section (A) (25 Marks)
• Circle the correct answer
• Use the space beside of the question for rough work.
• Each of the questions in this section is 1 mark
1. If 3𝑥 = 27, then 22𝑥 = ?

(a) 32
(b) 9
(c) 64
(d) 8
2. Find the nth term of the following sequence…
(a) 7n+3
(b) 7n-3
(c) 3n+7
(d) 3n-7
3. Round 0.010229 to four significant figures
(a) 1022
(b) 1023
(c) 0.01023
(d) 0.01022
4. Grace drove her mom's car for 70 km and it took her 120 minutes. What was her average
speed in km/hr?
(a) 12.4 m/s
(b) 8.67 m/s
(c) 11 m/s
(d) 10 m/s
5. A polygon has a sum of interior angle measures equal to 1620°. How many sides does the
polygon have?
(a) 9
(b) 11
(c) 13
(d) 7
1 5
6. 8 3 − 5 6 =
1
(a) 2
2
1
(b) 26
5
(c) 36
2
(d) 13
−1 3
7. Solve the given expression 9 2 × 92
1
(a) 9
(b) 9
3
√9
(c)
√9
1
(d) √92
8. A rental car costs $25.95 per day, with the first 25 miles free and $2.25 for each additional
mile. Which equation represents the cost of renting the car for d days and driving it m miles?
(a) C=25.95 m + 2.25 d
(b) C=25.95 d+2.25 m
(c) C = 25.95d + 2.25(m - 25)
(d) C = 25.95(d - 25) + 2.25m
9. Find the volume of a cylinder with a diameter of 10ft and height of 18.5ft.
(a) 1452.98 𝑓𝑡 3
(b) 5811.94 𝑓𝑡 3
(c) 185 𝑓𝑡 3
(d) 581.19 𝑓𝑡 3
10. (x+4) (x-5) =

(a) 𝑥 2 -x+20
(b) 𝑥 2 -9x-20
(c) 𝑥 2 -x-20
(d) 𝑥 2 +x-20
11. Find C’ if the figure is reflected across the y-axis
(a) (-3,2)
(b) (3, 2)
(c) (-2, 3)
(d) (3,0)
12. Describe the rotation.
(a) Rotate 90 degrees clockwise about the origin

(b) Rotate 90 degrees counter clockwise about the origin
(c) Rotate 180 degrees about the origin
(d) Rotate 180 degrees
13. What is the Bearing of A from B?
(a) 45
(b) 130
(c) 045
(d) 135
14. A map has a scale of 1:25 000.
What is the real distance, in kilometers, between two towns that are 8 cm apart on the
map?
(a) 200km
(b) 200 000 km
(c) 2 km
(d) 0.32 km
15. The bottom of a ladder leaning against a wall is 1.5 m from the bottom of the wall. The
ladder is 5.5 m long. Find how high the top of the ladder is above the ground, correct to one
decimal place.
(a) 5.2 m
(b) 5.3 m
(c) 5.7 m
(d) 5.8 m
16. What is the gradient of this line
(a) 4
(b) 4/5
(c) -2
(d) -1/2
17. The equation of the shown graph is ...
(a) y= 3x +1
(b) y= 3x -3
1
(c) y= -3 x+1
1
(d) y= 3 x+1
18. A circle pool has a radius of 7.5 ft. Monica wants to know how many ft of a pool cover she
needs to buy?
(a) 23.55 𝑓𝑡 2
(b) 176.63 𝑓𝑡 2
(c) 47.1 𝑓𝑡 2
(d) 706.5 𝑓𝑡 2
19. In between what two integers is the square root of 77?

(a) 5 and 6
(b) 6 and 7
(c) 7 and 8
(d) 8 and 9
3
20. Evaluate the expression:33 − √−216
(a) 3
(b) 15
(c) 21
(d) 33
21. Prices are reduced by 27% in a sale at Super Mart. Georgia buys a TV, saving £75.60 on the
original price. Calculate the original price
(a) £103.56
(b) £280
(c) £2.80
(d) £1035.6
22. (5.7 x 107 )+ (-2.4 x 106 )
(a) 54.6 x108
(b) 5.46 x 107
(c) 7.1 x 107
(d) 3.3 x 107
23. Evaluate 𝑙𝑜𝑔5 20 to the third decimal place
(a) 0.537
(b) 2.996
(c) 1.301
(d) 1.861
12𝑥 6 𝑦 −2
24.Simplify. Write using a positive exponent. 2𝑥 −2 𝑦
(a) 6𝑥 4 𝑦 −3
6𝑥 8
(b) 𝑦3
6𝑥 4
(c) 𝑦3
10𝑥 4
(d) 𝑦3
25. 125 m has been rounded to the nearest 5 meters. Find the upper bound.
(a)125.5 m
(b) 127.5 m
(c) 122.5 m
(d) 125.05 m
Section (B) (35 Marks)
2𝑥 2 −𝑥−28
1. Simplify (3 M)
20−𝑥−𝑥 2
2. A bicycle wheel has a diameter of 62cm. The wheel makes 80 complete revolutions.
How far has the bicycle travelled? Give your answer in meters. (3M)
3. Solve the simultaneous equations. Use any method you wish except trial and improvement.
(3M)
3x-2y=14
x+2y =10
4. The size of each exterior angle in a regular polygon is 20°.
Work out how many sides the polygon has. (2 M)
5. Natalie is making a frame for a picture she drew. (2M)

1 1
The length of the picture is 11 9 inches, and the width of the picture is 7 4 inches. How much
longer is the picture than it is wide?
6. The diagram shows three regular pentagons meeting at a point. Work out the size of the angle
marked x. You must show all your working. (3 M)
7. Kim worked 7 ¾ hours on Wednesday. If he spent ½ of that time cleaning his office, how
many hours did he spend cleaning? (2M)
8. Water flows through each of the pipes that fill a lake at the same rate. It takes 4 of the pipes 12
hours to fill the lake. Work out how many hours it would take 6 pipes to fill 1/ 4 of the lake.
(3M)
9. Tam walks 2 km on a bearing of 080° and then changes direction and walks due north for 3
km. How far is she from her starting point? (2M)
10. A rectangle has a length of 21cm, to the nearest cm, and a width of 5.3cm, to the nearest mm.
(4 M)
(a) Work out the upper bound for the perimeter of the rectangle.
(b) Work out the lower bound for the area of the rectangle.
11. A farmer has an L-shaped field. The farmer sells the field for $3950 per hectare. Estimate
how much money does the farmer receive? (3M)
1
12. Make x the subject of the formula 𝑧 = 2 𝑥 − 3𝑡 .
Find x when z = 4 and t = -3. (2M)
13.Solve 𝑥 2 +11x - 42 =0 (3M)

Section (C) (40 Marks)
1.(a) DEF is a straight line. CE = CF.
Angle ECF is 40⁰.
Angle DCE is 15⁰.
Find the size of the angle marked y. Clearly explain your answer.(3M)
1.(b) Below is a kite. Calculate the size of angle y. (2M)
2. The midpoints of the sides of a square of side 16 cm are joined to form another square.
This process is then repeated to create the shaded square. Find the area of the shaded
square.(5M)
3. A frame is made from wire.
The frame is a trapezium
Calculate the total amount of wire needed to make the frame.
Give your answer to 1 decimal place. (4 M)
4. When you play darts, you throw three darts at the board and add the scores.
Andi and Bart are practicing. Here are their scores for a number of turns.( 4M)
Andi 24, 22, 32, 59, 99, 59, 76, 83, 21, 95, 57
Bart 63, 25, 43, 28, 72, 61, 45, 46, 13
(a) Who has the better average score? Give a reason for your answer.
(b) Who has the more varied scores? Give a reason for your answer.
You must show your working for using statistics.
5.Al, Tom and Joe share $3000.The ratio of the amount Al gets to the amount Tom gets is in the
ratio 5:4. Joe gets 1.5 times the amount Tom gets. What is the amount of money that Tom gets?
Give reason for your answer. (4M)
6. The scores for class A students are recorded in the table below. (5 M)
Score 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Frequency 2 2 5 3 5 3 7
(a) Find the probability of selecting a student

(i) with a score at most 11 (ii) with a score greater than 10
The scores for class B students are recorded in the table below.
Score 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Frequency 1 1 7 6 3 2 12
(b) Find the probability of selecting a student

(i) with a score at most 11 (ii) with a score greater than 13
(c) Which class is better? Give a reason for your answer.
7. There are only blue counters, green counters, red counters and yellow counters in a bag. The
table shows the number of blue counters in the bag. (4 M)
Color blue green red yellow
Number of counters 30
There is a total of 100 counters in the bag. Ashin takes at random a counter from the bag.
(a) Find the probability that the counter is not blue.
The ratio of the number of blue counters to the number of green counters is 2:3
(b) Work out the number of green counters in the bag.
Bradley says, “The number of red counters in the bag is the same as the number of yellow
counters in the bag.”
(c) Can Bradley be correct? Give a reason for your answer.
8.A bumblebee flies out from its hive to some flowers, and returns to its hive some
time later. Its journey is shown on the
distance-time graph. (4 M)
(a) Find the bumble-bee's outward journey speed in meters per second.
(b) How long does the bee stay at the flowers?
(c) Find the bumble-bee's return journey speed in meters per second.
(d) Doing which part of the journey was the bumblebee fly faster. Why?
9. Show that the line y = 3x+4 is perpendicular to the line x + 3y -3 =0. (5 M)

Math Practice Test Question-1

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Math Practice Test Question-1

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Math Practice Test Question-1

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Name Campus

Math practice test question

1. If 3𝑥 = 27, then 22𝑥 = ?

10. (x+4) (x-5) =

11. Find C’ if the figure is reflected across the y-axis

(a) Rotate 90 degrees clockwise about the origin

13. What is the Bearing of A from B?

16. What is the gradient of this line

19. In between what two integers is the square root of 77?

5. Natalie is making a frame for a picture she drew. (2M)

Find x when z = 4 and t = -3. (2M)

13.Solve 𝑥 2 +11x - 42 =0 (3M)

(a) Find the probability of selecting a student

(b) Find the probability of selecting a student

You might also like