JETS JUNIOR CATEGORY

MATHEMATICS QUIZ

1. In which quadrant is cosine positive and the rest negative.

Answer: 4th quadrant
2. What is the image of (1,2) after a reflection in y = 0.
Answer: (- 1, - 2)
3. A cuboid has a base area of 10 cm2 and a height of 5 cm. What is its volume?
Answer: v = 50 cm3
4. How many centimetres are there in 2 kilometres?
Answer: 200 000
5. In the equation v = √ a+b , b in terms of a and v.
Answer: b = v2 – a
6. The area of a square is 12 cm2. Find the area of a square with side twice the length.
Answer: 48cm2
x 1
7. Find the value of x in 2 = .
16
Answer: x = - 4
8. The average of five numbers is 16. Another number x is added and the average of the six
numbers is 14. What is x?
Answer: 6
9. Subtract 2900 grams from 3.7 kilograms.
Answer: 800g or 0.8 kg
10. If the bearing of X from Y is 1500, find the bearing of Y from X.
Answer: 3300
11. What is the probability of Brazil winning the game against England.
1
Answer:
2
12. The sum of interior angles of a regular polygon is 18000. How many sides have the polygon?
Answer: 12 sides
13. How many subsets are found in a set of 5 elements?
Answer: 32
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14. Which fraction is greater or ?
5 4
4
Answer:
5
15. Find the value of x for which (x – 5)2 = 64.
Answer: - 3 and 11
16. For the line 2y + 5x = 10. What is its gradient?
5 1
Answer: gradient =- or −2
2 2
17. Given that x is a member of a set of whole numbers less that 3. State the solution set of the
inequation 3 x+ 4> 4 (x +2)
Answer: x < - 4 , { } or empty set
18. Given that the set Q has 254 proper subsets. Find the total number of elements in set Q.
Answer: 8
19. Solve the equation 272 x−1 =35
Answer: x = 1
20. A car travelling at a speed of 120km/h covers the distance from Mpika to Kasama in 2 hours. On
the return journey from Kasama to Mpika the take only 1 hour 30 minutes. What was its
average speed on its return journey?
Answer: 160 km/h
21. Two heaps of Rice are of similar shape and contain 128 kg and 250 kg of Rice respectively. If the
height of the bigger heap is 60m, find the height of the smaller one.
Answer: 48 cm
22. The mean mass of 30 pupils is 50 kg. Two pupils join the class and the masses of two pupils are
49 kg and 47 kg respectively. Find the new mean mass correct to 1 decimal place.
Answer: 49.9 kg
23. Find the sum of the first 75 positive odd numbers.
Answer:
24. A ladder 10 metres long leans to a vertical wall to a height which is 8 metres from the bottom of
the wall. What is the distance between the bottom of the wall and the foot of the ladder?
Answer: 6 metres
25. What is the sum of the two negative numbers?
One attempt, answer: its negative
26. A Juldan bus leaves Lusaka at 15 30 hours and takes 12 hours 45 minutes to reach Nakonde. At
what time did it reach Nakonde?
Answer: 03 45 hours
1
27. Round off 12 minutes to the nearest minute.
4
Answer: 12 minutes
28. It takes 4 people 18 hours to paint a house. If the work has to be completed in 8 hours, how
many people would be needed if they were all working at the same rate?
Answer: 9 people would be needed.
29. If y ∝ x 2 and y = 8 when x = 4, find y when x = 5.
1
Answer: 12
2
30. Find the length of a chord which is 5 cm from the centre of a circle with radius 8 cm.
Answer: 12.49 cm
a d
31. Solve for x given that =
x c
ac
Answer: x =
d
32. The voltage V in a circuit is given by the formula V= IR, write I in terms of V and R.
V
Answer: I =
R
33. A solid has a height of 15 cm and a volume of 360 cm 3. A similar solid has volume 9720 cm 3. Find
its height.
Answer: Height= 45 cm
34. A box has length 15 cm, breadth 7 cm and height 8 cm. Find its surface area.
Answer: 562 cm2
35. A box contains 7 red beads and 3 blue ones. Musa takes a bead without looking, what is the
probability that he takes a red one?
7
Answer:
10
36. A machine is tested for 100 hours continuous running how many day is this?
Answer: 41.7 days
37. X*Y means multiply the first number by 3 and then added to half of the second number. What is
2*(- 8).
Answer:
38. How many centimetres make 2 kilometres?
Answer: 200 000
39. The equation of a straight line is 3 x+ y=6 . What is the y-intercept?
Answer: y−intercept =6
40. What is the value of a if 3a ×3 3=1
Answer: - 3
2 5
41. Evaluate −
3 8
1
Answer:
24
42. Express in standard form 0.008
Answer: 8 × 10- 3
43. The ratio of a girl’s weight to her mother is 4: 5. If the girl’s weight is 48 kg, what is the mother’s
weight?
Answer: 60 kg
a
44. Find the solution set {a: >5}
2
Answer: {11, 12, 13, ...}
45. The sum of two numbers is 15 and their difference is 1. Find the numbers.
Answer: 8 and 7
46. A 5m ladder leans against a window still 3.2 m above the ground. How far from the base of the
wall is the foot of the ladder?
Answer: 3.86 m
47. Find the size of each interior angle of a nonagon.
Answer: 1400
48. A circular running track has a radius of 140 m. find the circumference of the track.
Answer: 1320 m
49. A set has 128 subsets, how many elements has such a set?
Answer: 7 elements
50. Given that vector⃗
OA = ( 34). Find its magnitude.
Answer: 5 units
2
51. Find the value of 27 3

1
Answer:
9
52. Given that 5x =3y, find the ratio of x:y
Answer: 3:5
−1
53. Evaluate 32 5

1
Answer:
2
54. Express 0.02995 correct to 3 significant figures.
Answer: 0.0300
55. State whether true or false. 1 is a square number.
One attempt Answer: true
4t
56. Express q in terms of H in H =
q
4t
Answer: q =
H
57. What is the value of 862- 142
Answer: 7200
58. A gardner is paid K15000 for four hours work. What is the rate of pay?
Answer:K3750/hr
59. What is the sum of the prime numbers between 60 and 70.
Answer: 128
1
60. A train started a journey of 247 km at 09 47 hour. Given that the train travelled for 3 hours.
2
Calculate the time at which the train reached its destination.
Answer: 13 02 hours
61. Express 0.18 m as a percentage of 240 cm.
Answer: 7.5%
62. What is half of 3.5?
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Answer: or 1.75
4
63. Convert 3125 into base 3
Answer 100013
64. Subtract 13 from – 2.
Answer: - 15
65. What special name is given to a quadrilateral made of two isosceles triangles?
Answer: Kite
66. Find the exact value of 0.57 ÷ 1.9.
Answer: 0.3
67. What is the complementary of 850?
Answer: 5%
−1
68. What is the inverse of ? One attempt
3
1
Answer:
3
69. What is the 8th term in the sequence 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
Answer 31
70. It is given that M = 8 × 105 and N = 4 × 10-3. Find the value of MN.
Answer: 3200
71. What are the value of x in (x – 3)2 = 9.
Answer: x= 6 and x = 0
72. What is a sector?
Answer: A sector is an area bounded or formed by two radii and an arc
73. The average of 5 minute is 20. When two equal numbers are added, the average is 18. What is
the sum of sum numbers?
Answer: 26
74. Given that (p +q)2 = 40 and pq = 8, what is p2 + q2.
Answer: 14
75. Added 620 grams to 3.7 kg. Given the answer in kilograms.
Answer: 4.320 kg or 4.32 kg
76. Given that 11x = 23y state the ratio of x and y
Answer: 23 : 11
77. Divide 50 by half and then add ten. What do you get?
Answer:110
78. What name is given to the ratio between the circumference and diameter?
Answer: Pie or π
79. Find the value of the suard √
2
5 ×√5
3

Answer: 30
80. Find the value of 992 – 1
Answer: 9800
3 x+ 3
81. The function f ( x )= , find f (2)
x
Answer: 4
2 a+2 x
82. Express x in terms of a and y, that given y= .
x
2a
Answer: x=
y−2
83. Change 13610 into base 5.
Answer:
84. The angles of a pentagon are 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 6x. Find x.
Answer: x = 180
85. List the subsets of {x, y}
Answer: ∅ , {x}, {y}, {x, y}
86. How many lines of symmetry has a regular undecagon.
Answer:11
87. The base of a rectangle is twice its height. The area is 18 m2. Find the base.
Answer: 6m
88. A bird flies from a tree to the river on a bearing of 072 0. The bird then proceeds to a millet field
which is due south of the river and that the distance between the tree and the river is equal to
the distance between the river and the millet field, calculate the bearing of the millet field from
the tree.
Answer: 1260
89. A father is 4 times as old as his son. If the difference in their present ages is 30, how old will be
the son in 3 years time?
Answer: 13 years
90. Find the largest integer which is both a factor of both 60 and 126.
Answer: HCF = 6
91. Factorise completely 2p3 – 50p
Answer: 2 p ( p+5 ) ( p−5)
92. Mr. Mukuka bought a car at US$ 2300 from Japan. If the exchange rate on that day was
US$ 1 = K5330, how much did Mr. Mukuka pay for his car in Zambia Kwacha?
Answer: K 12, 259, 000
93. Each interior angle of a regular polygon is 170 o. Calculate the number of sides in the
polygon.
Answer: 36
94. A holiday is planned for a group of 20 children and food is bought to last 15 days. If the
number of children were to increase to 25, how long would you expect the same
amount of food to last?
Answer: 12 days
2 4
8 π r −2 π r
95. Simplify 2
4 πr +2 π r
3
4 r −r
Answer:
2+r
96. When it is 12 00 hours in London, the time in Singapore is 20 00hour. What is the time in London
when it is 12 53 hour in Singapore?
Answer: 04 53 hours
97. The scale of a map is 1: 250 000.Two villages A and B are 3 cm apart on the map. Find the actual
distance in kilometres.
Answer: 7.5 km
98. Mr Kumalo a retired Headteacher invests K84 00 for 3 years and receives K6 300 as simple
interest. At what rate per annum was the money invested?
Answer: 2.5%
4−5+51 ÷ 17
99. Work out
6−2× 3
Answer: undefined since any number divided by zero is undefined
100. Solve the equation 3x + 5 = 5(x – 2)
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Answer: 7.5 or 7
2