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Semester review 1
Measurement
Short-answer questions
1 Convert these measurements to the units shown in the brackets.
a 0.43 m (cm) b 32 000 mm2 (cm2 ) c 0.03 m3 (cm3 )
2 Find the perimeter of each of these shapes.
a b c 2.6 m
10 m
3 cm
7m
1.9 m
2 cm 12 m

3 For these shapes, find, correct to two decimal places:

i the perimeter ii the area
a b c
12 cm 4 cm 2m

3 cm
5 cm

4 Find the area of each of these shapes.

a b c 2m
3m
7 cm 2m
7m 16 cm

6m
5 For these solids, find (correct to two decimal places where necessary):
i the volume ii the total surface area
a b c 12 mm
5 cm 3m 5m
10 mm
4m
3 cm 5m

Multiple-choice questions
1 The number of centimetres in 2.8 metres is:
A 0.28 B 28 C 280 D 2.8 E 2800
2 A rectangle has length 7 cm and perimeter 22 cm. Its width is:
A 7.5 cm B 15 cm C 14 cm D 8 cm E 4 cm
3 The area of a circle with diameter 10 cm is given by:
A p(10)2 cm2 B p(5)2 cm2 C 10p cm2
D 5 × p cm2 E 25 cm2
4 The surface area of this cylinder is closest to: 4 cm
A 351.9 cm2 B 301.6 cm2 C 175.9 cm2
D 276.5 cm2 E 183.4 cm2
10 cm

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5 The area of the triangular cross-section of a prism is 8 mm2 and the prism’s height is 3 mm.
The prism’s volume is:
A 48 mm3 B 12 mm3 C 24 mm2
D 24 mm3 E 12 mm2

Extended-response question
A concrete cylindrical pole has radius 0.5 m and height 10 m. The outside curved surface only is to be
painted. Answer the following, to two decimal places.
a What volume of concrete was used to make the pole? 0.5 m
b What area is to be painted?
c A litre of paint covers 6 m2 . Paint costs $12 per litre and there are 18 poles
to be painted. What is the cost of paint required? Round your answer to the
nearest $10.
10 m

Consumer arithmetic
Short-answer questions
1 Sven earns $28.40 per hour working in a bar. What would he earn for working a 6-hour shift?

2 Tobias earns $55.20 an hour as a mechanic. Calculate his:

a time-and-a-half rate
b double-time rate
c weekly wage for 38 hours at normal rate
d weekly wage for 38 hours at normal rate plus 3 hours at time and a half
3 Fatima earns $60.80 an hour on weekdays and double time on the weekends. Calculate her weekly
pay if she works 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Monday to Friday and 9 a.m. till 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.

4 Cara invests 10% of her net annual salary for 1 year into an investment account earning 4% p.a. simple
interest for 5 years. Calculate the simple interest earned if her annual net salary is $77 500.
5 A $120 Blu-ray player is discounted by 15%. What is the sale price?
6 Marina has a taxable income of $42 600. Calculate her income tax if she falls into the following tax
bracket.
$3572 plus 32.5c for each $1 over $37 000

7 Each fortnight, Raj earns $1430 gross income and pays $34.94 in superannuation, $23.40 in union fees
and $493.60 in tax.
a What is Raj’s annual gross income?
b How much tax does Raj pay each year?
c What is Raj’s net annual income?
d What is Raj’s net weekly income?
8 Find the final value of an investment of $7000 at 6% p.a., compounded annually for 4 years.

9 Jason earns $664.20 in a week, where he works 35 hours at his normal hourly rate and
4 hours at time and a half. Calculate Jason’s normal hourly rate.

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Multiple-choice questions
1 Nigel earns $1256 a week. His annual income is:
A $24.15 B $32 656 C $65 312 D $15 072 E $12 560
2 Who earns the most in a year?
A Priya: $56 982 p.a.
B Suresh: $1986 per fortnight
C Henry: $1095 per week
D Yasmin: $32.57 per hour, 38-hour weeks for 44 weeks
E Bill: $20 000 p.a.
3 Adrian works 35 hours a week, earning $575.75. His wage for a 38-hour week is:
A $16.45 B $21 878.50 C $625.10 D $530.30 E $575.75
4 Jake earns a retainer of $420 per week plus a 2% commission on all sales. His fortnightly
pay when his sales total $56 000 for the fortnight is:
A $2240 B $840 C $1540 D $1960 E $56 420
5 Antonia earns $4700 gross a month. She has annual deductions of $14 100 in tax and
$1664 in health insurance. Her net monthly income is:
A $3386.33 B $11 064 C $40 636 D $72 164 E $10 000

Extended-response question
A computer tablet with a recommended retail price of $749 is offered for sale in three
different ways:
Method A Method B Method C
5% discount for cash 3% fee for a credit card 20% deposit and then $18.95 per
payment month for 3 years

a Jai buys a tablet for cash. How much does he pay?

b Thalia buys a tablet using her mother’s credit card. How much more does Tahlia pay for her
tablet compared to Jai?
c Georgia chooses to pay for her tablet using method C.
i Calculate the deposit Georgia must pay.
ii What is the final cost of purchasing the tablet on these terms?
iii How much interest does Georgia pay on her purchase?
iv What percentage of the recommended retail price is Georgia’s interest? Round
your answer to two decimal places.

Algebra and indices

Short-answer questions
1 Simplify the following.
2
a 2xy + 7x + 5xy − 3x b −3a × 7b c 4a b
8ab
2 a Expand and simplify the following.
i −4(x − 3) ii 3x(5x + 2) iii 4(2x + 1) + 5(x − 2)
b Factorise the following.
i 18 − 6b ii 3x2 + 6x iii −8xy − 12y

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3 Simplify these algebraic fractions.

a 6x + 18 b 3(x − 1) ÷ x − 1 c x + 2x d x−3
6 8x 2x 2 5 4 8
4 Use index laws to simplify the following. Express with positive indices.
12x3 y2
a 2x2 × 5x4 b c (2m4 )3 d 3x0 + (4x)0
3xy5
4x5 y3 × 5x−2 y
( )
2 4
e 3a4 f 3a−5 b2 g −5 h
b t 10x7 y2
5 a Write the following as basic numerals.
i 4.73 × 105 ii 5.21 × 10−3
b Convert these to scientific notation, using three significant figures.
i 0.000027561 ii 8 707 332
Multiple-choice questions
1 The expanded and simplified form of 4(2x − 3) − 4 is:
A 8x − 7 B 6x − 11 C 8x − 16 D 8x − 8 E 6x − 7
2 The fully factorised form of 4x2 + 12x is:
A 4(x2 + 3x) B 4x(x + 12) C 4(x2 + 12x) D 4x(x + 3) E 2x(x + 6)

3 5(x − 2) × 12 simplifies to:

3 x−2

A 20 B −6 C 20 D 16(x − 2) E (x − 2)
x 6
3x2 y × 2x3 y2
4 Using index laws, simplifies to:
xy3
5 2 4
A 5x B 6x5 C 6x D 6x4 E 6x
y y y
5 (a3 )4 b−2 expressed with positive indices is:
7 12 12
A a2 B a2 C 71 2 D a−2 E a7 b2
b b a b b
Extended-response question
Julie invests $3000 at an interest rate of 6% per year, compounded.
a Write a rule for the amount of money, $A, in her account after n years.
b How much will be in her account, correct to two decimal places, in:
i 2 years’ time? ii 6 years’ time?
c Use trial and error to determine how long it will take her to double her initial investment. Answer
to one decimal place.

Probability
Short-answer questions
1 A keen birdwatcher records the number of different species of birds in her backyard over a
20-day period.
Number of species 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 0 2 3 8 4 2 1
From these results, estimate the probability that on the next day the birdwatcher will observe the
following number of species.
a 3 b 2 or 3 c fewer than 5 d at least 2

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2 Of 25 students, 18 are wearing jackets, 14 are wearing hats and 10 are wearing both jackets
and hats.
a Represent this information in a Venn diagram.
b Represent this information in a two-way table.
c How many students are wearing neither a hat nor a jacket?
d If a student is chosen randomly from the group, find the probability that the student will
be wearing:
i a hat and not a jacket ii a hat or a jacket
iii a hat and a jacket iv a hat, given that they are wearing a jacket
3 Two 6-sided dice are rolled and the total is recorded. Die 1
a Complete the table to find the total number of outcomes. 1 2 3 4 5 6
b Find: 1 2 3 4
i Pr(5) ii Pr(7) 2 3 4
iii Pr(at least 7) iv Pr(at most 4) 3

Die 2
4
5
6

4 Two people are chosen without replacement from a group of 2 males and 4 females.
Use a tree diagram to help find the probability of selecting:
a 2 males b 1 male and 1 female c at least 1 female
5 For each diagram, find Pr(A) and Pr(A | B) and then decide if events A and B are
independent.
a A B b A AÌ
B 3 2 5
3 2 4
BÌ 2 1 3
6 5 3 8

Multiple-choice questions
1 A letter is chosen from the word PROBABILITY. What is the probability that it will not be a
vowel?
A 3 B 4 C 7 D 1 E 8
11 11 11 2 11
2 For this Venn diagram, Pr(A É B) is equal to: A B
A 1 B 1 C 1 3 1 2
6 10
D 3 E 3 4
10 5

3 For this tree diagram, what is the probability of the 1

3 T
outcome (T, H)? T
1
A 1 B 1 C 1 2 2
3
H
3 6 2
D 1 E 2 1 1
3 T
4 3 2
H
2 H
3

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4 The number of faults in a computer network over a period of 10 days is recorded in this table.
Number of faults 0 1 2 3
Frequency 1 5 3 1
An estimate for the probability that on the next day there would be at least two errors is:
A 3 B 1 C 4 D 2 E 1
10 5 5 5 10
5 Two events are mutually exclusive when:
A Pr(A) = 0 B Pr(A È B) = 0 C Pr(A É B) = 0
D Pr(A|B) = Pr(A) E Pr(A È B) = Pr(A) × Pr(B)

Extended-response question
A hot dog stall produces two types of hot dogs: traditional (T) at $4 each and Aussie (A) at $5 each.
Gareth randomly selects two hot dogs.
a Complete this table to show the possible selections. T A
b Find the probability of selecting: T (T, T)
i 2 Aussie hot dogs A
ii at least 1 Aussie hot dog
c Gareth has only $8. What is the probability that he will be able to afford two hot dogs?

Statistics
Short-answer questions
1 Twenty people were surveyed to find out how many days in the past completed month they
used public transport. The results are as follows:
7, 16, 22, 23, 28, 12, 18, 4, 0, 5, 8, 19, 20, 22, 14, 9, 21, 24, 11, 10
a Organise the data into a frequency table with class intervals of 5 and include a percentage
frequency column.
b Construct a histogram for the data, showing both the frequency and the percentage frequency
on the one graph.
c i State the frequency of people who used public transport on 10 or more days.
ii State the percentage of people who used public transport on fewer than 15 days.
iii State the most common interval of days for which public transport was used. Can you
think of a reason for this?
2 The data set shows the number of Apps owned by students in a school class.
12 24 36 17 8 24 9 4 15 32 41 26 15 18 7
a Display this data using a stem-and-leaf plot.
b Describe the distribution of the data as symmetrical or skewed.
3 For the data set 8, 10, 2, 17, 6, 30, 12, 7, 12, 15, 4:
a Order the data.
b Determine:
i the minimum and maximum values
ii the median
iii the lower quartile (Q1 ) and the upper quartile (Q3 )
iv IQR (= Q3 − Q1 )
v any outliers
c Draw a box plot of the data.

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4 Farsan’s bank balance over 12 months is recorded below.

Month J F M A M J J A S O N D
Balance ($) 1500 2100 2300 2500 2200 1500 1200 1600 2000 2200 1700 2000

a Plot the time series for the 12 months.

b Describe the way in which the bank balance has changed over the 12 months.
c Between which consecutive months did the biggest change in the bank balance occur?
d What is the overall change in the bank balance over the year?

Multiple-choice questions
1 The values of a and b in this Colour Frequency Percentage frequency
frequency table are: Blue 4 16
A a = 3, b = 28 Red 7 b
B a = 4, b = 28 Green a 12
C a = 4, b = 19 White 6 24
D a = 6, b = 20 Black 5 20
E a = 3, b = 30
Total 25

2 The mean, median and mode of the data set 3, 11, 11, 7, 1, 9 are:
A mean = 7, median = 9, mode = 11 B mean = 6, median = 9, mode = 11
C mean = 7, median = 8, mode = 11 D mean = 7, median = 11, mode = 8
E mean = 8, median = 7, mode = 11
3 For the given stem-and-leaf plot, the range and median, respectively, Stem Leaf
of the data are: 0 2267
A 20, 12.5 B 7, 12 C 27, 12.5 1 012358
D 29.3 E 27, 13 2 33579
1 | 5 means 15

4 The interquartile range (IQR) for the data set 2, 3, 3, 7, 8, 8, 10, 13, 15 is:
A 5 B 8.5 C 7 D 13 E 8
5 The best description of the correlation between the variables for the y
scatter plot shown is:
A weak negative B strong positive
C strong negative D weak positive
E no correlation
x

Extended-response question
The heights of plants in a group of the same species after a month of watering
with a set number of millimetres of water per day are recorded below.
Water (mL) 8 5 10 14 12 15 18
Height (cm) 25 27 34 40 35 38 45

a Draw a scatter plot for the data, using ‘Water’ for the x-axis.
b Describe the correlation between water and height as positive, negative or none.
c Fit a line of best fit by eye to the data on the scatter plot.
d Use your line of best fit to estimate the:
i height of a plant watered with 16 mL of water per day
ii daily amount of water given to a plant of height 50 cm

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