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The document contains 37 multiple choice questions related to mathematics and statistics. Questions cover topics such as sets, Venn diagrams, arithmetic, geometry, percentages, probability, mean, median and more. The questions range in difficulty from basic to more advanced.

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The document contains 37 multiple choice questions related to mathematics and statistics. Questions cover topics such as sets, Venn diagrams, arithmetic, geometry, percentages, probability, mean, median and more. The questions range in difficulty from basic to more advanced.

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1.

Given that U = {2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9} and


A = {2, 6, 8}, then A is 8. 378, 000 grams converted to kilograms is
A) {5} A) 0.378 kg
B) {2, 6, 8} B) 37.8 kg
C) {3, 5, 9} C) 378 kg
D) {2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9} D) 37800 kg

2. In the Venn diagram below, which relationship 9. Calculate the circumference of a circle of radius
best describes the shaded area?
21 inches, using 22 7 as the value of .
A) A  B A) 66 inches
B) A  B B) 132 inches
C) A  B C) 264 inches
D) U  D) 1, 386 inches
10. The area of the trapezium QRST shown below is
3. If P = {whole numbers that divide into 12} and A) 32 cm2
Q = {whole numbers that divide into 18}, then P  Q = B) 44 cm2
A) {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18} C) 56cm2
B) {1, 2, 3, 6} D) 60cm2
C) {9, 12, 18}
D) {6} 11. Calculate the area of the figure shown below
A) 48 square feet
4. The elements of the set {-5, -2, 0, 1, 6, 7, 12} are B) 40 square feet
best described as C) 32 square feet
A) Integers D) 13 square feet
B) Irrationals
C) Natural Numbers 12. A square has an area of 400 cm2. What is the
D) Whole Numbers perimeter?
A) 20 cm
5. a(b + c) = ab + ac illustrates which of the B) 40 cm
following laws? C) 60 cm
A) Distributive Law D) 80 cm
B) Commutative Law 13. In the right-triangle ABC shown below, what is
C) Closure Law tan C?
D) Associative Law 3
A) 5
2 2 5 3
B) 4
6. 3 , 5 , 6 arranged in ascending order is
2 2 5 2 2 5 4
C) 5
A) 3 , 5 , 6 B) 5 , 3 , 6 4
2 5 2 5 2 2 D) 3
C) 3 , 6 , 5 D) 6 , 3 , 5
14. In which of the following figures do the
7. What is the L.C.M. of 5, 6 and 12? diagonals always bisect each other and meet at right
A) 23 angles?
B) 30 A) Rhombus
C) 60 B) Kite
D) 72 C) Trapezium
D) Parallelogram
A) 1 8 B) 3 16
15. In the rectangle PQRS shown below, the length
of the diagonal QS is given by C) 7 8 D) 125 100
22. If BZ$1.00 = 6 Mexican Pesos, how many
A)
x2  y 2
Mexican Pesos should one get for BZ$12.50?
B) ( x  y )
2 A) 2
B) 18.5
C) x  y
2 2
C) 75
D) 108
D)
x2  y 2
23. If $210 is divided into two portions in the ratio
16. In the diagram below, the value of x is 3:4, then the larger portion is
A) 30 A) $30
B) 45 B) $52.50
C) 90 C) $90
D) 180 D) $120

17. In the diagram shown below, ABC is an 24. If 1,200 out of 6,000 members of a credit union
AD AE 1 attended the annual meeting, then what percentage did
  NOT attend the meeting?
enlargement of ADE such that AB AC 3 . If the
A) 20
area of ABC = 54cm2, then the area of BCED, in cm2, is
B) 40
A) 6
C) 60
B) 36
D) 80
C) 40
D) 48
25. A man takes a loan of $5,000 from Atlantic
Bank. The bank charges a processing fee of $250 and
18. The bearing of an airport A from a plane B is
$1,200 interest. The total amount to be paid to the bank
310. What is the bearing of the plane B from the airport
A) $1,200
A?
B) $1,450
A) 50 C) $5,000
B) 130 D) $6,450
C) 140
D) 230 26. A salesman sells a bike at a profit of 25%. What
is the cost price of the bike if he sold it for $200?
19. How many sides does a regular polygon have if A) $150
the measure of the internal angle is 170? B) $160
A) 9 C) $175
B) 18 D) $240
C) 36
D) 72 27. During a sale, a television set marked at $800
was sold for $700. What percent discount was given?
20. The number of significant figures in 0.00312 is 1
A) 2 A) 10 B) 12 2
B) 3 C) 14 D) 15
C) 4
D) 5 28. The simple interest on $700 for 3 years at 8
percent per annum is
21. 0.125 written as a common fraction is
700 x8 700 x8 x3 D) Range
$ $
A) 100 x3 B) 100
700 x3 700 x100
$ $
C) 100 x8 D) 8 x3 35. Two fair dice are thrown and the results added.
29. A Dell Laptop computer costs $2,200 cash. What is the probability of scoring a sum of 7?
When bought on hire purchase, a deposit of $400 is 1 1
required, followed by 12 monthly installments of $200 A) 6 B) 12
each. How much more is the hire purchase price than 7 1
the cash price? C) 12 D) 36
A) $200
B) $400 36. The probability that an event will NOT happen
C) $600 4
D) $2,600 is 9. The probability that the event will happen is
4
30. The mean of 11 numbers is 9. The number 19 is A) 0 B) 9
deleted. What is the mean of the remaining numbers? 5
A) 1.9 C) 9 D) 1
B) 3
C) 8 37. A jar contains 3 red marbles, 7 green marbles
D) 9 and 10 white marbles. If one marble is drawn from the
jar at random, what is the probability that this marble is
31. The semi-interquartile range of 2, 11, 9, 6, 15, white?
19, 24 is 1 1
A) 6.5 A) 20 B) 10
B) 7 2 1
C) 12.5 C) 5 D) 2
D) 18
38. What is the gradient of the straight line shown
32. What is the mode of the frequency distribution below?
to the right? A) -2
A) 3 1
B) 4 B) 2
C) 7
3
D) 9
C) 2
33. The histogram below shows the scores obtained D) 2
by students in a science test, marked out of 60. How
many students sat the test? 39. Which of the following relations represents a
A) 40 function?
B) 60 I. {(0, 0), (1, 3), (1, -3), (4, 6), (4, -6)}
C) 81 II. {(0, 3), (1, 2), (2, 1), (3, 0), (4, 1), (5, 2), (6, 3)}
D) 162 III. {(0, 0), (2, 2), (4, 4), (-2, 0), (-4, 0)}
IV. {(0, 1), (1, 3), (2, 4), (3, 5), (0, -2), (-1, 1), (-2, 0)}
34. Which of the following is NOT a measure of A) I only
central tendency? B) II and III only
A) Mean C) I and III only
B) Mode D) IV only
C) Median
46. Solve the following linear equation for x:
1 3
x 2
8 4 .
40. The diagram below represents the graph of y = x2 7 5
– 6x + 5. The solutions to the equation x2 – 6x + 5 = 5 A) 8 B) 4
are C) 10 D) 16
A) x = 0, x = 1
B) x = 0, x = 6 47. Simplify the following linear inequality:
C) x = 1, x = 3 3(x – 2) ≥ 2x – 3.
D) x = 1, x = 5 A) x ≥ -9
B) x ≥ -1
41. The equation of a straight line through the point 3
(-1, 3) with slope 2 is C) x ≥ 5
A) y = 2x + 3 D) x ≥ 3
B) y = 3x + 2
C) y = 2x + 5 48. Simplify the following algebraic expression:
D) y = 2x + 2 4
x y 2

x 5 y 3 .
42. Evaluate 2x3 – x2 + y for x = -1 and y = 2
A) -1 A) xy
B) 0 x
C) 1 B) y
D) 2
y
43. Simplify the following algebraic expression: C) x
7x – 3y – (4x – y) + 3 y6
A) 3x – 2y + 3 D) x
9

B) 3x – 4y + 3
C) 11x + 3y + 3 49. A supermarket had a one day sale on Pringles
D) 11x – 3y + 3 Chips in the flavors Original, Barbeque and Pizza. It
sold three times as many packages of Barbeque Flavor as
44. The verbal statement “twice a number x minus y Original Flavor, and twice as many packages of Pizza
cubed” can be expressed algebraically as Flavor as Original Flavor. If the supermarket sold 600
A) 2(x – y3) packages on this day, how many packages of Original
B) 2x – y3 Flavor did it sell?
C) 2x – 2y3 A) 80
D) -2xy3 B) 100
C) 120
45. Given the following binary operation: D) 200
a * b = 2a + b, what is the value of (2 * 3) * 5
A) 7 50. Marlon buys 3 bags of nacho chips and 2
B) 10 garnaches for $2.80. Ashalene buys 1 bag of nacho
C) 12 chips and 4 garnaches for $2.60. What is the cost of one
D) 19 bag of nacho chips?
A) 40 c
B) 50 c
C) 60 c
D) 70 c

THE EQUALS SIGN = WAS INVENTED IN 1557 BY WELSH


MATHEMATICIAN ROBERT RECORDE.  IN HIS BOOK, THE
WHETSTONE OF WITTE, HE WROTE, "TO AVOID THE TEDIOUS
REPITION OF THESE WORDS: IS EQUAL TO; I WILL SET A PAIR
OF PARALLEL LINES THUS, =, BECAUSE NO TWO THINGS CAN
BE MORE EQUAL."

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