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CSEC Multiple Choice With Solutions SAMPLE PDF
This paper consists of 60 Multiple Choice items from the Core Syllabus according to
the following allocation:
Computation 6
Number Theory 4
Consumer Arithmetic 8
Sets 4
Measurement 8
Statistics 6
Algebra 9
60
For each of these items, choose the option (A, B, C or D) that is TRUE.
2 1 (C) $57
3. 2 +3 =
5 10 (D) $180
2
(A) 5
50 7. Which of the following sets has an infinite
1 number of members?
(B) 5
15 (A) {factors of 20}
3 (B) {multiples of 20}
(C) 5
15
(C) {odd numbers between 10 and 20}
1
(D) 5 (D) {prime numbers less than 20}
2
(D) 754
(C) 38 × 2 3 (A) $ 30
(B) $ 50
(D) 38 × 212
(C) $120
(D) $170
10. Three lights flash at intervals of 4, 6 and 10
seconds respectively. They are started
together. How soon after will they next flash 15. The marked price of a stove was $520. A
together again? worker bought the stove on hire-purchase
(A) 40 secs by making a down payment of $100, and
twelve monthly payments of $40 each.
(B) 60 secs
How much could she have saved if she had
(C) 120 secs bought the stove for the marked price?
(D) 240 secs (A) $ 40
(B) $ 60
11. After a 10% discount, an article is sold for (C) $100
$360. The price before the discount was
(D) $140
(A) $ 36
(B) $ 324
16. How much simple interest is due on a loan
(C) $ 392 of $120 for two years if the annual rate of
(D) $ 400 interest is 5 12 per cent?
(A) $12.00
12. A store charges 6% VAT on all sales. What (B) $13.20
is the total cost of a shirt marked at $30 ?
(C) $26.40
(A) $28.20
(D) $33.00
(B) $31.80
(C) $33.84
17. The water authority charges $10.00 per
(D) $36.00 month for the meter rent, $2.50 for the first
1 000 litres and $0.10 for each additional
100 litres. What is the total bill for 2 500
13. A shopkeeper buys 48 radios for a wholesale
litres used in one month?
price of $7200. At what price per radio must
he sell to make a profit of 15% on his cost? (A) $ 4.00
(A) $128.00 (B) $12.70
(B) $172.50 (C) $14.00
(C) $222.550 (D) $14.90
(D) $375.00
21. P Q
25. D 3 cm C
2 cm
R
A B
The shaded area in the Venn diagram above 5 cm
represents The area of the trapezium ABCD above is
(A) ( P ∪ Q) ' (A) 8 cm 2
(B) (Q ∪ R) ' (B) 10 cm 2
(C) ( P ∩ Q) ∪ R (C) 16 cm 2
(D) ( P ∪ R) ' ∩ Q (D) 30 cm 2
26. Which of the following words BEST 29. A circular hole with diameter 6 cm is cut
describes a quadrilateral with all its sides out of a circular piece of card with a
equal? diameter of 12 cm. The area of the
(A) Rhombus remaining card, in cm 2 , is
(B) Rectangle (A) 6π
(C) Parallelogram (B) 27 π
(D) Trapezium (C) 36 π
(D) 108 π
27. A square has the same area as a rectangle with
sides of length 9 centimetres and 16 centi-
metres. What is the length of the square? 30. The width of a block of wood with
rectangular cross-section is x cm. Its height
(A) 9 cm
is 23 its width and its length is 4 times its
(B) 12 cm
height. What is its volume in cm3?
(C) 12.5 cm
(D) 72 cm 8x
(A)
9
28. 16 x 3
B (B)
9
45˚ A 8x3
(C)
3
17 x
(D)
3
In the circle above, the circumference is 20
cm. The length of the arc AB, in centimetres,
is 31.
1 M E
(A) × 20
45
x
G 4x
1
(B) × 20
8 F
Items 32 and 33 refer to the information below 36. In a box, there are 3 white, 4 red and 2 blue
The following scores were obtained by eleven marbles. What is the probability that a
footballers in a goal-shoot competition: marble taken at random is NOT blue?
5 3 6 8 7 8 1
(A)
3 11 6 3 2 9
32. The modal score was 2
(B)
9
(A) 3
7
(B) 6 (C)
9
(C) 8
8
(D) 11 (D)
9
4 (A) 6
(A)
25 (B) 12
5 (C) 18
(B)
25 (D) 36
11
(C)
25
16
(D)
25
5x + 1 (C) 3x 2 + x − 2
(B)
4
(D) 3x 2 + x + 2
7x + 3
(C)
4
45. The range of values of v when
7x + 1 5 − v ≤ 2 v − 1 is
(D
4
(A) v<2
(B) v≤2
41. If x is an odd number, which of the following
is also odd? (C) v>2
(A) x +1 (D) v≥2
(B) x+2
(C) 2x + 2 46.
(D) 3x + 1 P
Q
42. 8 x − 4 ( x − 5) =
S
(A) 4 x + 20
R
(B) 4 x − 20
(C) 4x + 5 In the figure above, for which point is the
x-coordinate positive and the
(D) 4 x 2 − 20 x y-coordinate negative?
(A) P
(B) Q
43. 2 (5 − x ) − 3 ( x − 6) =
(C) R
(A) x−8
(D) S
(B) 28 − 5 x
(C) −5x − 8
(D) 8−x
47. y
49. The equation of the line which passes
through the point (0, 2) and has a gradient of
1 is
7 3
6 (A) y = 3x
5
4 (B) y = 3x + 2
3
2 1
(C) y= x
1 3
-3 -2 -1 0 x 1
-11 2 3 4 5 6 (D) y= x+2
3
-2
-3
-4 50. If f : x → x 2 + 1, then f ( − 3) is
3x y = 1
5x + 2y = 20 (A) 10
(A) (4, 0)
51. Which of the relations represented below
(B) (0, 1)
are functions?
(C) (2, 5)
(D) (5, 2) a 1
I. b 2
c 3
48. y
a 1
2 II. b 2
c 3
4 2 0 2 4 x a 1
III. b 2
c 3
2
56. A C
54. D A
32˚
80o
E P
C B B D
In the rectangle above, if ∠AEB = 80° , then
∠DAC = In the figure above,
AB CD and ∠BAD = 32° . ∠APC =
(A) 10°
(A) 32°
(B) 40°
(B) 64°
(C) 50°
(C) 90°
(D) 80°
(D) 116°
57. This question refers to the triangle PQR in 59. How many lines of symmetry does this
which angle QPR = 90° , PR = 12 cm and shape have?
PQ = 5 cm .
P
12
cm
m
5c
Q R
58. B
60. When rotated through 90° about the origin
in a clockwise direction, the
image of the point (3, 1) is
(A) (−1, 3)
30˚ (B) (3, −1)
A C