KAMBULE PROVINCIAL STEM SECONDARY SCHOOL

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER STUDIES

MATHEMATICS STUDIES

GS MATHEMATICS MID – TERM TEST TERM 1 2021

TIME: 1 hour 30 MINUTES MARKS: 25

NAME:………………………………………………CLASS:…………………..
Answer all the questions in this paper
Show your working to avoid loss of marks.
CALCULATORS AND CELL PHONES ARE NOT ALLOWED.

1. Work out the value of

2
(a) 64 3

Answer:…………………........... [1]
−1
(b) 27 3

Answer:…………………...........[2]
2. Show clearly that 4 =8. Hence, or otherwise, work out the value of y if 4 y =86.
3 /2

Answer:…………………........... [3]

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3. a patient has a disease. she has 4 3 body cells on day 1. The number of affected cells
doubles every day. The disease becomes serious when 210 body cells are affected. on
which day does the disease become serious? show your working.

Answer:…………………...........[2]
−2 25 x
4. given that x 3/ 2=8 where x >0 and y = where y >0 , find the value .
4 y

Answer:…………………........... [3]
5. simplify the following giving your answer in surd form
(a) √ 63

Answer:…………………........... [1]

(b)
√ 3
16

Answer:…………………........... [2]

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6. rationalize the denominator for the following giving your answer in its simplest form,
1
(a)
3−√ 2

Answer:…………………...........[2]

(b)
√3+ 1
√5+ 2

Answer:…………………...........[3]
6−5 √ 5
7. simplify giving your answer in the form a+ b √ 5 where a and b are rational
3 √ 5−2
numbers.

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 Answer:…………………........... [3]
8. At Kambule stem school, learners eat about 105 kg of mealie meal per day. what is the
minimum and the maximum possible amount of mealie meal that can be taken by learners
per day?

Answers:
minimum…………………………[1]
maximum…………………………[1]
9. Mwamba measured the length of the table as 42.3cm correct to 1 decimal place.
calculate;
(a) absolute error [1]
(b) relative error [1]
(c) percentage error [1]

Answer: (a) …………………...........[1]

b)…………………………[1]

c)………………………….[1]

THE END!

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