REVISION PAPER 2 - JANUARY MONTHLY TEST

Degree of Accuracy
1. Length of an item is 23.6cm correct to one decimal place. Find the upper and lower bounds.

2. Length of an item is 260cm correct to ten. Find the upper and lower bounds

3. Length of an item is 65cm correct to the nearest five. Find the upper and lower bounds

4. Length of an item is 19cm correct to the nearest unit. Find the upper and lower bounds

5. Length of an item is 700cm correct to one significant figure. Find the upper and lower bounds.

6. A rectangular carpet measures 8 m by 10 m to the nearest m.

a) Calculate the upper and lower bounds for the perimeter of the carpet.
b) Calculate the upper and lower bounds for the area of the carpet

7. Length(�) and width(�) of a rectangle are measured to the measured to the nearest centimeter. Find the
upper bound and the lower bound of the following if,

� = 7�� and � = 3��

a) a−b 4�
b)
�
8. Distance travelled by an object is 56 m correct to the nearest meter. Also time taken by the object is 12
seconds correct to the nearest second. Find the maximum speed of the object

Equations
1. Solve for �
a) 8 − 3x = 5 3�+2 �−1
h) + =1
3 2
b) 9 + 2.5� = 36 − 0.2�
10
c) 2 3� − 1 − 3 2 − 3� = 2� − 23 i) =2
�
� �
d) − =1 6
+ =3
3
2 3 j)
� �
1 1
e) 2 � + 7 = 5 � + 10 1 1
k) + =1
3−� 2+� 2� 3�
f) =
3 2 6−3� 5�+12
l) − =− 1
4 3 3 4
g) = �−2
�+3 2�−3 �−2 7
m) − =
2 3 6

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 � �
2. 2
+7 is three times 5
+2 . Find the value of �

3. Ryan does one-third of his journey to school by car, and one-half by bus. Then he walks the final
kilometre. How long is his journey to school?

4. Find the value of � and the perimeter of the isosceles triangle given in the
diagram

5. Sum of two consecutive numbers is 111. find the two numbers

6. Find three consecutive numbers whose sum is 438.

7. Sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 52. Find the two numbers

8. The sum of three consecutive even numbers is 222. Find the numbers.

9. John and Amelia have a baby daughter, Sonia. John is 23 kg heavier than Amelia, who is four times as
heavy as Sonia. Their combined weight is 122 kg. How heavy is each person?

10. A father is three times as old as his son. In 14 years’ time, he will be twice as old as his son. How old is
the father now?

11. A father is three times as old as his son. 10 years ago, fathers age was seven times the age of his son.
How old is the father now?

12. A cup of tea costs 10 cents less than a cup of coffee, while a cup of hot chocolate costs 20 cents more
than a cup of coffee. Three cups of coffee, five cups of tea and two cups of hot chocolate cost $8.90.
Find the price of a cup of coffee.

13. A teacher gives you 20 cents for every question you get right, but you have to pay the teacher 10 cents
for every question you get wrong. After 30 questions you have made a profit of $1.80. Form an
equation with � representing the number of questions you got right. Find �

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14. Find the value of � and the perimeter of this rectangle

15. Length of a rectangle is 4cm more than the width. Find the width if the perimeter is 22cm

16. Write down the single inequality represented by this number line. What is the smallest integer that �
can be?

17. List the integers in the solution set 3 ≤ x < 5.

18. List the integers which satisfy both these inequalities simultaneously.
−3.5 < x < 3 and 4x + 1 ≤ x + 2

19. Solve the inequality and show each result on a number line.
a) 7 − 2x ≤ 11

b) 7x + 3 < 2x − 19

c) 2(x − 1) ≥ 5(x + 2)

�−2 �−3
d) > 3
5

e) −7 < 3x − 2 ≤ 11

f) x < 2x + 1 ≤ 7

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 RATIO
2
1. Nathans monthly salary is 12000. He spent 5
of her salary on food. Remaining salary was spent on

travelling and other costs in the ratio 3:2. Find how much he has spent on travelling

2. Ratio between girls and boys in a class is 5:9. Find the number of girls if there are 63 boys
3. Ratio between girls and boys in a class is 4:7. Find the number of girls if the difference between girls and
boys is 30

4. Ben, who is 42, his son Terry, who is 16, and his daughter Anne, who is 14, agree to share £540 in the
ratio of their ages. How much does each person receive?

5. Saru is making some lemonade. He fifinds using 42 ml of lemon juice and 210 ml of water makes a tasty
drink.
a) Find the ratio of lemon juice to water in its simplest form.
b) Saru uses 8 litres of water to make some lemonade of the same strength. What volume of
lemonade does he make?

6. The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3. Find the angles.

7. (a)Which is larger, 9 : 4 or 23 : 10?

(b)Which is larger, 2 : 5 or 7 : 20?

8. Archie and Bijan share some money in the ratio 7 : 11. Bijan gets £132. How much Archie gets?

9. Julie and Hammad each make a glass of orange drink. Julie uses 42 ml of juice and 210 ml of lemonade.
Hammad uses 30 ml of juice and 170 ml of lemonade. Who has made their drink stronger in taste?

10. In a school there are 52 teachers and 598 students.

a) Write the student : teacher ratio in the form n : 1.
b) Another school has 85 teachers and 1020 students. Which school has the larger number of
teachers per student?

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11. In a school, the ratio of the number of students to the number of computers is 1: 5. There are 210

computers in the school. How many students are there?

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Direct and inverse proportions

1. Scale of a map is 1cm represents 35m. Find the map length if the actual length is 175m

2. Ten people can complete a work in 15 days. How many people are needed to complete the same work in
6 days

Sequences

1. Find the 25th term of the arithmetic progression -10, -7, -4, -1,…..

2. 10th term of an arithmetic sequence is 37. Find the first term if the difference is 3.

3. 12th term of an arithmetic sequence is 63. Find the common difference if the first term is 8

4. Find the first term over 1000 in 7, 15, 23, 31, ….

5. Find the first term over 700 in 3, 7 , 11, 15,….

6. 3rd term of an arithmetic sequence is 19 and the 7th term is 31. Find the first term and the common
difference

7. Jay’s dog weighs 35 kilograms and is overweight. The dog is put on a diet, losing 0.5kg every week. How
long does it take to reach the target weight of 28 kilograms?

2−�
8. Find the first five terms in the sequences �� =
2�+1

9. Find an expression for the nth term

a) 3, 9, 15, 21,….
1 1 1 1
b) , , , , ….
6 7 8 9
1 3 5 7
c) , , , ,
6 11 16 21

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12. Is 345 a term in the sequence 4, 11, 18, 25, …..

13. 3rd term of an AP is 19 and the 6th term is 31. Find the first term and the common
difference of the sequence

14. Find which term is 109 in 19, 24, 29, 34,….

15. Find the sum of the first 20 terms of the sequence 7, 13, 19, 25,….

16. Find the sum of the first 50 even numbers

17. Marc is using stones to investigate rectangle perimeter numbers where the inner
rectangle is twice as long as it is wide

Copy and complete this table where n is the number in the sequence and s is the number
of stones

Find a formula connecting n and s.

What is the largest term of the sequence that Marc can build with only 200 stones?

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