Intensive Mathematics Course (L1) Test 5

TEST 5
Revision Exercise III No. 2
1. (a) How many books costing $8.40 each can be bought with $200? How much money will then
be left?

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(b) The car uses 27 litres of petrol for a joruney of 220 km. How much petrol will it need to
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cover a distance of 680 km?

2. (a) Express 0.035 as a fraction in its lowest terms.

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(b) Express 1 as a decimal.
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(c) Express 2.004 56 correct to two decimal places.

(d) Express 0.025 47 correct to two significant figures.

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3. (a) Find the LCM of 25, 80 and 120.

(b) Simplify 3(5𝑥𝑥 − 7) − 2(3𝑥𝑥 − 5𝑦𝑦) + 2(3𝑦𝑦 − 7𝑥𝑥) − (𝑥𝑥 − 2𝑦𝑦).

4. If (𝑥𝑥 + 2)2 + (𝑦𝑦 − 3)2 = 0, find the value of 2𝑥𝑥 + 3𝑦𝑦.

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5. (a) The area of a trapezium is 1500 cm². Find the height between the parallel sides if their
lengths are 14 cm and 36 cm.

(b) How many liters of water are required to fill a rectangular storage tank 12 m long, 6 m
wide and 2 m deep? (1 liter = 1000 cm3)

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6. Consider the following number pattern:

2×2=1×3+1
3×3=2×4+1
4×4=3×5+1
5×5=4×6+1
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𝑛𝑛 × 𝑛𝑛 = 13 × 15 + 1

(a) Write down the 10th line in the pattern.

(b) Find the value of n.

(c) Use the above pattern to calculate the value of 1992.

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7. The students of a secondary 1 class were asked

to name their favorite subject. The bar graph
illustrates the result. Find

(a) The total number of students in the class;

(b) The fraction of students who like math;

(c) The fraction of students who like either History Geography.

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8. (a) A solid concrete cylinder of diameter 70 cm is 120 cm high. What is its volume in cubic
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meters? �Take 𝜋𝜋 = 3 �
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(b) At a sale, a sofa set selling at a discount of 25% fetches $3570. Find the original price of
the sofa set.

(c) A trader buys x pencils at $y each and sells them at 3 for $z. Find an expression for his total
profit.

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9. A bicycle wheel has a diameter of 70 cm. Find

(a) The circumference of the wheel;

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(b) the distance the bicycle travels after the wheel has made 400 revolutions. �Take 𝜋𝜋 = 3 �
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10. A rope which is wound round a drum of diameter 21 cm is

attached to a bucket that is resting at the bottom of a well of depth
9.89 m. Find the number of complete turns of the handle required
to bring up the bucket such that the bottom of the bucket is
suspended just above the mouth of the well.

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11. A trapezium ABCD is such that AD//BC. The diagonals AC and BD of the trapezium
intersects at E. If the lengths of BD and BE are in the ratio 5:4 and the area of ∆ABE is 20 cm2,
find the area of the trapezium.
𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵 𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶
Hint: Use the fact = .
𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸 𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸

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12. Kate likes to walk down moving escalators and she takes one step at a time. When she walks
down at a rate of 2 steps per second, she reaches the bottom from the top after 18 steps. When
she is exhausted, she will walk down at a rate of 1 step per second and she will reach the
bottom from the top after 12 steps. Find the time taken for her to reach the bottom from the top
if she just stands on the escalator.

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