Portmore Community College
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CSEC MATHEMATICS
Assignment 1 - Total 60 marks Due – Thursday, September 17, 2015
Answer the following questions. Show all working to obtain full marks. Two marks for each correct
response.
Prepared by H. Walker September 2015
1. Evaluate 15.96 x 0.5. following day. How many hours did the
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journey take?
2. Given 5200 out of 6500 voted in an
election, what is percentage that did not 20. An article which costs $1336 may be
purchased by depositing $580 and
vote?
3. Find the missing number in the sequence making monthly installments of $42.
1 1 How many months are required to
12, 10 , _____ , 7, 5 .
3 3 complete the payments?
4. The number 43849 written to four 3
21. Simplify .
0.5
significant figures is ___________.
5. Which of the following number is prime? 0.25
22. Find the value of .
100
257 or 256 or 255 or 254 . Why?
23. Name a quadrilateral in which its
6. Express 0.00769 in standard form.
diagonals are perpendicular to each other
a c
7. If , which of the following is and equal.
b d
true? a + b = c + d or a – b = c – d or 24. Express 0.004967 in standard form to
bd = ac or bc = ad three significant figures.
8. Arrange the following fractions in 25. If 3p is an odd number, which of the
7 1 1 1 following is a an even number?
descending order: , , , .
8 5 3 2 3p + 4p or 3p – 1 or 3p + 2 or 3p – 2
9. A man takes home $418 after 24 per cent 26. Evaluate (9.4)2 – (0.6)2.
of his salary was deducted for tax. What Hint: Difference of two squares
was the amount he paid in tax? 27. Express 4089 in standard form.
10. A bag of flour marked to give 150% 28. If a*b means 3a + b, find 1*3.
profit was originally sold for $60. What 29. Simplify (2m)3 + 2m3
is the marked price? p 3q
30. Simplify .
11. Express 4652 to the nearest hundred. q2 p
12. Evaluate 44.4 0.01.
13. The cost of posting a 10kg parcel is
$24.50. What is the cost of posting a
parcel weighing 6kg?
14. A salesperson sold an article to make a
profit of 20% on his cost price of $80.
What was the selling price?
15. A shopkeeper bought sweets at $1.00
per dozen and sold them at $1.50 per
dozen. Calculate his percentage profit.
16. Identify two whole numbers, where
the 165 lie between them.
17. Evaluate 25 x 13 + 7 x 25.
18. Calculate the loss percentage, if eight
books costing $30 each was sold for $180.
19. A man leaves home at 20:15 hrs and
reaches his destination at 06:00 hrs the
Prepared by H. Walker September 2015