Name :

Class :

JABATAN PELAJARAN MELAKA

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

MATHEMATICS
2008

Unit 7 : LENGTH
Duration : 20 minutes
DO NOT OPEN THIS TEST PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
Question

2. Answer all questions.

Allocated
Marks

3. Write your answers clearly in the spaces

provided in the question paper.

4. Show your working. It may help you to get

marks.

6. The diagrams in the questions provided are

not drawn to scale unless stated.

7. The marks allocated for each question are

shown in brackets.

10

1. This question paper consists of 10 questions.

5. If you wish to change your answer, erase the

answer that you have done. Then write down
the new answer.

8. This question paper must be handed in at the

end of the examination.

Total

Marks
Scored

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This paper consists of 5 printed pages.
UNIT 7 : LENGTH (20 marks)
1

Convert 11km 56 m to km.

[ 1 mark ]

2
Write 39.279 m to the nearest m.
mark ]

[1

Diagram 1 shows the length of a pencil.

cm

Diagram 1
What is the length of the pencil, in cm?
[ 1 mark ]

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11

12

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4.

Add 9.041 km and 38 m.

Give the answer in km.
[2

marks ]
4

21 m 9 cm 155 cm = _____________ m
[ 2 marks ]

A loaf of bread is cut into 15 slices of equal thickness. Each slice is

15 mm thick.
Find the total length of the loaf of bread, in mm.
[2

marks ]

2
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A rubber ball was dropped from a height of 2.8 m. It bounced up to

3
of the height from where it was dropped.
4

How many metres did it bounce up?

[ 2 marks ]

An express bus travelled 1500 km in 5 days. It covers an equal

distance every day.
Find the distance travelled, in km, by the express bus in 2 weeks?
[3
marks ]

3
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Table 1 shows the lengths of the Rajang River and the Kinabatangan
River.
River

Length

Rajang

590 km

Pahang

Kinabatangan

588 km
Table 1

The Pahang river is 71.8 km shorter than the Rajang river.

Find the total length, in km, of the three rivers.

[ 3 marks ]

10

Table 2 shows the lengths of strings needed to tie up parcels P and Q.

Parcel

Length of string

206 cm

1.45 m
Table 2

Calculate the total length, in m, of string needed to tie up the

two parcels.
[ 3 marks ]
10

Unit 7 - Length

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CONFIDENTIAL
* For teachers only.
Unit 7 : LENGTH

Allocated
Mark(s)
1

P1 : 39

P1 : 7.75 or 7

K1 : 9.041 + 0.038
N1 : 9.079

K1 : 21.09 1.55
N1 : 19.54

K1 : 15 x 15
N1 : 225

K1 :

No.

Marking Guidelines
P1 : 11.056

3
4

3
x 2.8
4

Minus 1 mark for overdoing

(OD)

N1 : 2.1

K1 : 1500 5
K1 : 300 x 14
N1 : 4 200

K1 : 590 71.8
K1 : 590 + 588 + 518.2
N1 : 1 696.2

10

P1 : 2.06
K1 : 2.06 + 1.45
N1 : 3.51

Unit 7 - Length

Remarks

K2 :

1500
x 14;
5

K2 : (590 x 2 71.8) + 588