CSEC Mathematics Paper 1 May/June 2020 - Free CXC Past Paper with Answers

(-3)²+(-2)² is equal to

What is the value of the digit 2 in the number 48.621?

Using the distributive property

$49 \times 17 + 49 \times 3 =$

A total of 540 beads are shared in the ratio 4:5. The LARGER share of beads is

0.45 written as a common fraction, in its simplest form, is

Dan sold 40 concert tickets in 5 days. Each day he sold 3 tickets MORE than the previous day. The number of tickets he sold on the third day is

The number of members who play rugby but NOT basketball is

The shaded region represents

$(P \cup Q)^{\prime}$

How many students play BOTH games?

How many students play EXACTLY one game?

Which of the following sets is empty?

If $n(A) = 14$ , $n(B) = 15$ , and $n(A \cap B) = 6$ , then $n(A \cup B)$ is

A dress which costs $180 is being sold at a discount of 10%. The amount of the discount is

A dinner at a restaurant was advertised at $60 plus 18% tax. The total bill for this dinner was

The cost price of a refrigerator is $1 850.00. A buyer who is given a discount of 5% for a cash purchase will pay

The annual interest rate on a mortgage on a house assessed at a value of $450 000 is 5 cents on every $1. What is the interest paid on the mortgage for the first year?

The simple interest on a sum of money invested at 5% per annum for 3 years was $90. The sum of money invested was

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

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?

A man's regular pay is $3 per hour up to 40 hours. Overtime is twice the payment for regular time. If he was paid $216, how many hours of overtime did he work?

If $5(2x-1)=35$ , then $x=$

If $x$ is an integer that satisfies the inequality $4 < 2x \le 6$ , then

Given that $3*6 = 12$ and $2*5 = 9$ , then $a*b$ may be defined as

If $p+q=-1$ and $pq=-6$ , then $p^3+q^3=$

The distance $L$ that an elastic string is stretched by hanging an object of mass $m$ varies directly as the mass of that object. If a 5-kg object stretches the string 31 cm, how far will a 29-kg object stretch the string?

Given that $A = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 3 & -3 \\ 3 & 0 & 5 \end{pmatrix}$ , then $3A$ equals

$\begin{pmatrix} 3 & 9 & -9 \\ 9 & 0 & 15 \end{pmatrix}$

The determinant of $P$ , $|P|$ , is

The vector p - q is represented by

$\begin{pmatrix} 1 \\ 12 \end{pmatrix}$

$\begin{pmatrix} 5 \\ 12 \end{pmatrix}$

$\begin{pmatrix} 5 \\ 2 \end{pmatrix}$

$\begin{pmatrix} 1 \\ 5 \end{pmatrix}$

Item 30 refers to the following diagram of triangle PQR, in which L is the midpoint of PR and $\vec{QP} = \vec{a}$ and $\vec{QR} = \vec{b}$ .

$\vec{PL}$ expressed in terms of a and b is

$\frac{\vec{a} + \vec{b}}{2}$

The length 3 800 millimetres expressed in metres is

The volume of a cube with edge 10 cm is

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

The volume of the cylinder is

If the length of the minor arc PQ is 8 cm, what is the circumference of the circle?

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?

Which of the following statements is true about the perimeters of the figures A and B?

Perimeter of A = perimeter of B

Perimeter of A < perimeter of B

Perimeter of A ≥ perimeter of B

Perimeter of A > perimeter of B

If the height of the triangle is 4 cm, what is the TOTAL area of the figure?

Items 39-40 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 8 Age in years

What was the modal age?

How many children took part in the survey?

Ms Clarke arranged the 15 test scores of her students in order of size and selected the 8th score for reporting purposes. Which of the following statistical measures did Ms Clarke obtain?

The pie chart below, drawn to scale, shows how a student used 12 hours in studying English (E), Mathematics (M), French (F) and Geography (G). The amount of time spent studying Mathematics is APPROXIMATELY

If the mean of the 4 numbers 4, 8, x and 12 is 10, then x is

A respondent is selected at random. What is the probability that he has a positive attitude towards Mathematics?

Item 46 refers to the following graph of a straight line.

The straight line AB cuts the y-axis at

Item 47 refers to the following graph of a straight line.

The gradient of AB in the graph above is

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

Items 49-50 refer to the following graph of a quadratic function.

The values of x at the points where the curve $y=4x-x^2$ intersects the line $y = 0$ are

The maximum point of $y = 4x - x^2$ is

A parking lot charges $1.00 plus $0.25 for every hour (h) or part thereof in which a vehicle is parked. A function, C(h), that represents the parking cost is

C(h) = \frac{h}{0.25} + 1.00

Which of the following BEST describes the function?

If the sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 4 right angles, then the polygon is a

In the diagram, the translation by which AB is mapped onto A'B' is represented by

$\begin{pmatrix} 1 \\ 1 \end{pmatrix}$

$\begin{pmatrix} 2 \\ 1 \end{pmatrix}$

$\begin{pmatrix} 3 \\ 2 \end{pmatrix}$

$\begin{pmatrix} 5 \\ 3 \end{pmatrix}$

OAA', OBB' and OCC' are straight lines. $\triangle ABC$ is mapped onto $\triangle A'B'C'$ by an enlargement with centre O. What is the scale factor of the enlargement?

Item 59 refers to the following pair of similar triangles.

The length of MO, in centimetres, is

Item 60 refers to the following diagram.

The diagram above, not drawn to scale, shows that the angle of depression of a point X from Z is 30°. If X is 10 metres from Y, the height of YZ, in metres, is

$\begin{pmatrix} 4 & 6 & -6 \\ 6 & 3 & 8 \end{pmatrix}$

$\begin{pmatrix} 3 & 9 & -6 \\ 9 & 0 & 15 \end{pmatrix}$

$\begin{pmatrix} -2 & 0 & 6 \\ 0 & 3 & 2 \end{pmatrix}$

$\frac{\vec{b} - \vec{a}}{2}$

$\frac{-\vec{b} - \vec{a}}{2}$

$\frac{\vec{a} - \vec{b}}{2}$

CSEC Mathematics Paper 1 May/June 2020 - Free CXC Past Paper with Answers

CSEC Mathematics Paper 1 May/June 2020 Questions