CSEC Mathematics Paper 1 May/June 2011 - Free CXC Past Paper with Answers

In scientific notation, 170.04 is written as

$0.17004 \times 10^3$

$1.7004 \times 10^2$

$17.004 \times 10^1$

$1.7004 \times 10^{-1}$

What percentage of 340 is 425

Ann and Betty shared a sum of money in the ratio 2:3 respectively. Ann received $120. What was Betty's share?

$11.1 \div 0.01$ is equal to

If 60% of a number is 90, what is the number?

The EXACT value of $\frac{37.26 \div 1.8}{1000}$ is

$-\left(-\frac{1}{2}\right)^3$ is the same as

The H.C.F. of 12, 15 and 60 is

If $3n$ is an odd number, which of the following is an even number?

What is the least number of plums that can be shared equally among 6, 9 or 12 children?

Which of the following sets is equivalent to {a, b, c, d} ?

Which of the following sets is defined by: {x ∈ Z : -2≤ x ≤ 4}

If P = {a,b} then the number of subsets of P is

Item 14 refers to the Venn diagram below. U P Ω

If P = {Factors of 6} and Q = {Factors of 4}, then the shaded region represents

During a sale, a shop allows 20% discount off the marked price of clothing. What will a customer pay for a dress with a marked price of $30 ?

A man bought a calf for $200 and sold it for $250. What was his gain as a percentage of the cost price?

How much does a customer pay for an article, marked at $50.00 before taxes if a sales tax of 6% is charged?

At the end of any year, a car is worth 5% less than what it was worth at the beginning of the year. If a car was bought for $10 000 in January 2009, its value in December 2009 was

If the simple interest on $800 for 3 years is $54. What is the rate of interest per annum?

A man pays 60 cents for every 200 m³ of gas used, plus a fixed charge of $13.25. How much does he pay when he uses 55 000 m³ of gas?

If $7000 is borrowed at the rate of 5% per annum for 3 years, the simple interest is

$\frac{4}{5x} + \frac{2}{5x} = $

If $5x-26 = x+50$ then the value of x is

$P = \frac{m^2}{2-m}$ . When $m = -3$ , the value of $P$ is

For $2x+3 \ge 9$ , the range of values of $x$ is

John has $x$ marbles and Max has twice as many. Max gives John 5 of his marbles. How many marbles does Max now have?

If $3 + \frac{2}{x} = 1$ , then the value of $x$ is

The values of $x$ and $y$ which satisfy the equations $x+2y = 27$ and $2x-y = 19$ are respectively

The diagram below shows a cylinder with diameter 6 cm and height 20 cm. The volume in cm³, of the cylinder is

How many kilogrammes are there in one tonne?

The distance around the edge of a circular pond is 88 m. The radius, in metres is

The area of the quadrilateral above is

AOB is a sector of a circle such that angle AOB = 60° and OB is r units long. The area of AOB is

$\frac{1}{3}\pi r^2$

$\frac{1}{6}\pi r^2$

The area of a triangle is 30 cm² and its base is 10 cm. What is the perpendicular height, in cm, of the triangle?

The area of a rectangle is 53.6 cm². If the length is multiplied by four and the width is halved, the area would then be

The perimeter of a square is 48 cm. What is the area in cm²?

The mean of the following numbers is 15. 14,10,18,c,21,15,14 The value of c is.

A bag contains 2 red, 4 yellow and 6 blue balls. The probability of drawing a blue ball from the bag at random is

Items 43-45 refer to the diagram below which shows the sport chosen by 160 boys who participated in a games evening at their school

The number of boys who chose football is

The probability that a boy chosen at random participated in boxing is

How many boys participated in cricket?

Which of the following represents the equation of a straight line?

Item 47 refers to the arrow diagram below

The arrow diagram above describes the relation

x is a multiple of y

If $f(x) = 2x^2 - 1$ then $f(-3) = $

Item 49 refers to the diagram below.

The graph of the inequality in the diagram above is defined by

What is the gradient of the straight line $2y+3x=-8$ ?

Which of the following sets is represented by the relation $f: x \to x^2+3$ ?

$\{(0,3), (1,4), (2,7),(3,12)\}$

$\{(0,3),(1,5),(2,7),(3,9)\}$

$\{(0,3), (1,4),(2,5), (3,6)\}$

$\{(0,3), (1,1),(2,4), (3,9)\}$

Item 52 refers to the diagram below of a construction. With centre A, an arc BC is drawn. With centre B, and the same radius, the arc PCQ is drawn.

What is the measure of $\angle BAC$ ?

Item 53 refers to the following diagram.

In the diagram, $AB$ and $CD$ are parallel. Which of the following BEST describes the relation between $x$ and $y$ ?

$AC$ and $DE$ are straight lines intersecting at $B$ . Angle $DBA = 58^\circ$ . The measure of angle $ABE$ is

In the diagram above $\triangle OPQ$ is mapped onto $\triangle OP'Q'$ . What type of transformation has taken place?

AB is parallel to EC. What is the measure of ∠BDE .

The triangle LMN is rotated in a clockwise direction about L through an angle of 90°. What is its image?

The height of the building is approximately

$12 \tan 40^{\circ}$

$1.6 + 12 \sin 40^{\circ}$

$1.6 + 12 \cos 40^{\circ}$

$1.6 + 12 \tan 40^{\circ}$

Item 59 refers to the diagram of the building below.

A ladder 5 metres long is leaning against a vertical wall. The foot of the ladder is 3 m away from the wall on horizontal ground. How far up the wall does the ladder reach?

CSEC Mathematics Paper 1 May/June 2011 - Free CXC Past Paper with Answers

CSEC Mathematics Paper 1 May/June 2011 Questions