MATHEMATICS SENIOR QUIZ 2016

1. Find the nt h term of the sequence; 1, 4, 9, 16, …. ONE ATTEMPT ONLY

ANSWER: 2
n.
2. By selling a cup at K800.00, Mr. Zimba made 60% profit. What was the initial cost of the cup?
ANSWER: K500.00
3. Solve for x in 3 x+1=9.
ANSWER: X = 1.
4. In an examination, a pupil gains three marks for every correct answer and scores -2 for every wrong answer. If
the pupil has 33 answers correct and 17 wrong ones, what is the pupil’s total marks?
ANSWER: 65.

5. Magazine has 16 pages. 3 1 of these pages are poems and 7 1 stories. Find pages not poems or stories?
2 2
ANSWER: 5.
6. Given that n is an integer, find the smallest value of n for which 2n >35.
ANSWER: 6.

7. The sum of three consecutive integers is 1 of 90. Find the first two of these integers.
5
ANSWER: 5 AND 6.
8. A woman has 4 skirts and 5 blouses. Assuming that each blouse can be worn with each skirt, how many
different skirt-blouse outfits does the woman have? ONE ATTEMPT ONLY
ANSWER: 20.
9. Two towns are 8 km apart. Using a scale of 1 : 20, 000. Find the distance, in cm, between the two towns.
ANSWER: 40 cm.
10. Find the value of Sin 30 + Cos 600 + Sin 900.
0

ANSWER: 2.
11. 4
Factorise completely 9 t −9.
9 [ ( t +1 ) ( t−1 )( t +1 ) ]
ANSWER: 2

12. A car left Mwachisompola at 23:30 hours and travelled at a speed of 60km/hr. It reached Kapiri Mponshi at
01:15 hours. Find the distance it covered in km.
ANSWER: 105 km.

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13. A bag contained some red and white balls. If 12 balls were red and 25% were white, how many balls did the
bag contain? ONE ATTEMPT ONLY
ANSWER: 16.
14. What are the next two terms in the sequence 100, 10, 1, 0.1, _, _, _, _.
ANSWER: 0.01 AND 0.001.
15. A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 450. How many sides does the polygon have?
ANSWER: 8.
16. Danny received a car repair bill for $106. This included $23 for spare parts, $22 per hour for each hour of
labour and $6 for taxes. Find the number of labour hours.
1 HOURS OR 3.5 HOURS.
ANSWER: 3
2
17. Three metals A, B and C are mixed to make an alloy in the ratio 1:2:3. If metal B is 72kg, find the mass of
metal A.
ANSWER: 36 Kg.
18. Given that q 2− p2=32 and that q− p=16 , find the value of q + p .
ANSWER: 2.
19. Jane borrowed K300.00 for 6 months at an interest rate of 10% per year. What amount of interest did she pay?
ANSWER: K15.
20. Given that C=5 ×10−2 and D=4 ×10 4, find D ×C in standard form.
ANSWER: 3
2.0 ×10 .
21. A man cycles 24 km due south and then 20 km east. Another man, starting at the same time as the first man,
cycles 32 km due east and then 7 km due south. Find the distance between the two men.
ANSWER: 20.81 KM.
22. A ladder rests against the top of the perpendicular wall of a building and makes an angle of 73 0 with the
ground. If the foot of the ladder is 2m from the wall, calculate the height of the building.
ANSWER: 6.54m.
23. A cylinder is a cast from the rectangular piece of alloy 5cm by 7cm by 12cm. If the length of the cylinder is to
be 60cm, find its diameter.
ANSWER: 2.99cm.
24. A pendulum of length 1.5m swings through an angle of 100 in a single swing. Find, in centimetres, the length of
the arc traced by the pendulum bob.

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 ANSWER: 26.2cm
25. What is the area of the regular hexagon which has sides 25mm?
ANSWER: 1, 624 mm2.

26. Which of the series: 2187, 729, 243, …… is 1 ?

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ANSWER: 10TH TERM.
27. Find the sum of all the numbers between 5 and 250 which divisible by 4.
ANSWER: 7, 808.
28. The sum of three consecutive numbers is 15 and their product is 80. Determine the three numbers.
ANSWER: 2, 5 AND 8.

29.
4 ( )
Given that AB = −1 and B( 3 ,−2 ) obtain the coordinates of A.

ANSWER: ( 4 ,−6 )

30. Evaluate log 3

4
( 169 ).
ANSWER: 2.

31. The distance of the earth from the sun is 1.496 ×10 8 km . How far is Saturn from earth if its distance from
the sun is 1.427 ×10 9 km ? Give your in standard form.
ANSWER: 8
1 .2774 ×10 km .
32. A marketer sells 100kg of groundnuts for K1, 120. What could be the selling price per kg if she wants to make
a profit of 25 %?
ANSWER: K14.00 per kg.
33. After 84 miles, Mary found that she had three-fourth of the entire distance to her home. What is the total
distance to her home?
ANSWER: 112miles

34. OC has the same direction as (−34) and |OC| = 30. Express OC as column vector.
ANSWER:
(−18
24 )
35. What type of roots does the equation 5 x 2−3 x+1=0 have?
ANSWER: Has no real roots.

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36. What name is given to a triangle whose pattern in horizontal lines starts and ends with 1?
ANSWER: Pascal’s Tr iangle.

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