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Mat 001 Midterm Exam 2010

This document contains a midterm exam for a developmental math course. The exam has two sections. Section A contains 5 multiple choice questions covering topics like simplifying expressions, computing percentages, and solving equations. Section B contains 3 longer form questions: drawing graphs from linear equations, using math to solve consumer problems, and factoring polynomials. The exam is worth a total of 125 marks and tests fundamental math skills and their application to real world scenarios.

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Mat 001 Midterm Exam 2010

This document contains a midterm exam for a developmental math course. The exam has two sections. Section A contains 5 multiple choice questions covering topics like simplifying expressions, computing percentages, and solving equations. Section B contains 3 longer form questions: drawing graphs from linear equations, using math to solve consumer problems, and factoring polynomials. The exam is worth a total of 125 marks and tests fundamental math skills and their application to real world scenarios.

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DEVELOPMENTAL MATHS – MAT 001

This paper has 2 sections.


All questions are compulsory
SECTION A (50m)
1. Simplify the following:
a. 5.43 – 7.233 + 3.85 (To 2 decimal places) (2m)
b. 7.21 × 4.84 ÷ 2.2 (To 2 significant figures) (2m)
c. 14 ÷ 3 × 6 - 5 + 9 (2m)
d. (-10 – 4) +4(6 ÷ ⅔) (4m)

2. Compute the percentages:


a. Convert ⅛ to a percentage. (To 1 decimal place) (3m)
b. 60% of a number is 80. What is the number? (3m)
c. 1,200 runners entered the New York marathon. 15% of the runners were from Kenya, 20% of
the runners were female. How many male runners entered the race? (4m)

3. Simplify the following:


a. (x – 3y).(-3y – 3x) (4m)
b. -3(x + 2y).(2x + y) (4m)
c. (x + y).(4/x) (2m)

4. Solve for x:
a. 5x + 21 = 1 (2m)
b. -3x - 5 = 2x - 8 (4m)
c. 4x – 6 = 2x + 5 (4m)
3 4 3

5. Using ratios:
a. The top 3 students’ marks in an exam were in the ratio 3:4:5. There total marks were 240.
What were their individual marks? (4m)
b. Bunny, Hinn and Isaac received an inheritance from Moses - their grandfather. The total
amount of the inheritance was three million and five hundred thousand dollars ($3,500,000.00).
Bunny received ⅖, Hinn got half the amount bunny received and Isaac got the balance. How
DEVELOPMENTAL MATHS – MAT 001

much did Hinn and Isaac received? (6m)

SECTION B (75m )
6. Draw the following graphs represented by the linear equations below.
(25m)
a. 5x + 2y = 15 b. -2x + 3y = ⅔

7. Using maths to solve everyday consumer problems:


(25m)
a. Using simple interest compute the principal, if the total interest received is $4000, the rate of
interest is 15%, and the investment period was 3 years.
b. Jane deposited $3000 into a bank account and the annual interest rate is 5%. How much is the
interest after 4 years?
c. Find the sale price for an item that has a list price of 400 dollars and a discount rate of 25 %.
d. Jan 1st 2007, James bought a desktop computer for $6000. The depreciation rate is 25% on the
reduced balance. What is the Jan 1 st 2009 accumulated depreciation?
e. Hezekiah's bill for breakfast at a restaurant was $50 including the tip. He left a 10 % tip on the
cost of his breakfast. What was the cost of Hezekiah's breakfast, excluding the tip?

8. Factor the following: (25m)


DEVELOPMENTAL MATHS – MAT 001

a. 3ab2 + 6ab2c + 3ab


b. -4xy2 - 3x3y
c. –x3y - y2x
d. 6m2n + 18m2n2
e. 36y2p - 9y3p2

END OF MIDTERM EXAM

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