Item 12 refers to the following Venn diagram.
12.
In the Venn diagram, the shaded area represents
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(-3)²+(-2)² is equal to
-13
-10
13
25
What number when added to gives 2?
1
3
Ann and Betty shared a sum of money in the ratio 2:3. If Ann received $60 less than Betty, what was the total amount of money shared?
$72
$80
$180
$300
If , then
11.4445
114.445
1 144.45
11 444.4
A test was marked out of 80. A boy scored 60% of the marks on the test. How many marks did he score?
20
48
60
75
If 30% of a number is 45, what is of the number?
36
120
150
180
What is the value of the digit 2 in the number 48.621?
2
200
The highest common factor (HCF) of 12, 15 and 60 is
1
3
12
60
The next term in the sequence 1, 6, 13, 22, 33 is
44
45
46
52
By the distributive law,
52 + 66
52 × 66
49 + 20
49 × 20
If , and , then
Item 12 refers to the following Venn diagram.
In the Venn diagram, the shaded area represents
In a class of 32 students, 17 study Music and 20 study Art. What is the LEAST number of students who study BOTH Music and Art?
3
5
12
15
Item 14 refers to the following Venn diagram.
If and , then the shaded region represents
A dress which costs $180 is being sold at a discount of 10%. The amount of the discount is
$1.80
$10.00
$18.00
$170.00
The value of a plot of land is $18 000. Land tax is charged at the rate of $0.70 per $100 value. What is the TOTAL amount of tax paid for the land?
$110.00
$126.00
$180.70
$257.15
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 is worth $9 500 in December 2016, then its value in January 2016 was
$9 995
$10 000
$10 025
$12 000
A man bought a mobile phone for $800 and sold it for $1 000. What was his profit as a percentage of the cost price?
5%
15%
20%
25%
A man's annual salary is $45 000. His tax-free allowances total $13 000. He pays tax of 35% on his taxable income. The tax payable is
$ 4550
$11 200
$15 750
$20 300
The simple interest on a loan of $6 000 for 3 years was $900. What was the rate of interest per annum?
2%
3%
5%
18%
A television set costs $350 cash. When bought on hire-purchase, a deposit of $35 is required, followed by 12 monthly payments of $30 each. How much is saved by paying cash?
$10
$25
$40
$45
How much does a customer pay for an article marked at $50 if a sales tax of 6% is charged?
$44
$47
$53
$56
Seven times the product of two numbers, a and b, may be written as
7ab
49ab
7a+b
7(a+b)
If x is an integer that satisfies the inequality 4 < 2x ≤ 6, then
2 < x ≤ 3
-2 < x ≤ 3
-3 < x ≤ 2
-3 ≤ x < -2
The coefficient of x in the expansion of (x + 3)(x - 1) is
-3
-2
2
4
3x² × 2x³ =
6x
6x⁵
6x⁶
72x⁵
P = . When , the value of P is
If , then
If , then $x=$
John has marbles and Max has twice as many marbles as John. Max gives John 5 of his marbles. How many marbles does John now have?
When 8 is subtracted from a certain number and the result is multiplied by 3 the answer is 21. What is the original number?
1
3
10
15
How many kilograms are there in one tonne?
10
100
1 000
10 000
The volume, in cm³, of a cube of edge 3 cm is
9
18
27
54
A car travels 80 kilometres in hours. What is its speed, in kilometres per hour?
6
32
82.5
200
The length of one side of the square is 5 cm and the height of the triangle is 4 cm. What is the TOTAL area of the figure, in cm²?
35
45
50
100
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
26.8 cm²
53.6 cm²
107.2 cm²
214.4 cm²
A man leaves home at 22:15 hours and reaches his destination at 04:00 hours on the following day in the same time zone. How many hours did the journey take?
5
6
The distance around a lake is 8 km. On a map, this distance around the lake is represented by a length of 2 cm. The scale on the map is
1 : 40
1 : 2 000
1 : 200 000
1 : 400 000
The perimeter of a square is 56 cm. What is its area, in cm²?
28
78
169
196
The volume of the cylinder is
12 π cm³
48 π cm³
72 π cm³
192 π cm³
Items 41-42 refer to the following histogram which shows the number of children aged 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 who took part in a survey. 5 4 3 Number of children 2 1 0 4 5 6 7 Ages in years 8
What was the modal age?
5
6
7
8
How many children took part in the survey?
5
15
75
87
The following table shows the frequency of scores obtained by students in a test.
The range of the scores is
2
7
8
10
If the mean of the four numbers 4, 8, 2x and 12 is 10, then x is
8
10
12
16
Of 120 students writing an exam, 100 are expected to pass. The estimated probability that a randomly selected student will FAIL the exam is
The straight line AB cuts the y axis at
(0,3)
(0,2)
(3,-2)
(0,-2)
If , then $h(-6) = $
-4
\frac{-16}{5}
\frac{16}{5}
4
The inequality above is defined by
-2 ≤ x < 3
-2 < x < 3
-2 ≤ x ≤ 3
-2 < x ≤ 3
The values of x for which intersects are
x = 0 and x = 4
x = 0 and x = 2
x = 0 and x = -4
x = 2 and x = 4
Which of the following BEST describes the function?
f(x) = x
x = f(x) + 3
f(x) = y + 3
f(x) = x + 3
If each exterior angle of a regular polygon is 60°, then the polygon is a
quadrilateral
pentagon
hexagon
triangle
The measure of angle ABE is
58°
122°
142°
302°
In the triangle, the value of x is
30°
60°
120°
150°
What is the image of the line y = x when it is rotated anticlockwise about O through an angle of 90°?
y=0
x=0
y=x
y=-x
The length of MO, in centimetres, is
2.5
3.0
3.5
7.0
In the triangle, not drawn to scale, angle BAC=30° and AB = 40 m. The length BC, in metres, is
40 sin 30°
40 tan 30°
40 sin 60°
40 tan 60°
In the triangle ABC, not drawn to scale, AB is 17 cm, AC is 15 cm and BC is x cm. The value of x, in centimetres, is
7
8
9
12
In a triangle, PQR, angle P = x° and angle Q = 2x°. What is the size of angle R?
60°
45°
An estimate of the height of the building is obtained by calculating
12 tan 40°
12 sin 40°
1.6 + 12 cos 40°
1.6 + 12 tan 40°