Preliminary Examination: Mock Paper 2

Paper 1 (Duration: 50 mins)

Marks
Questions 1 to 10 carry 1 mark each and Questions 11 to 15 carry 2 marks each. For each
question, write the number corresponding to the correct option in the bracket provided.

1. Find the smallest number.

(1) 0.112 (2) 0.211
(3) 0.21 (4) 0.121
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2. What is the value of A in the following diagram?

(1) 15.2 (2) 15.4

(3) 15.6 (4) 15.8
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Given that 12.75 ÷ 15 = 0.85. What is value in the box below?

3.
12.75 ÷ = 85

(1) 15 (2) 1.5

(3) 0.15 (4) 0.015
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4. Simplify 20n – 7 – 9n + 3
(1) 11n – 4 (2) 13n – 7
(3) 17n + 4 (4) 23n – 16
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5. Calculate (22 + 13 – 27) + 2 x 3

(1) 30 (2) 29
(3) 26 (4) 14
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6. If a : b = 3 : 7 and b : c = 2 : 5. What is the ratio of a : c?

(1) 6 : 35 (2) 1:6
(3) 7:2 (4) 3:5
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7. ABCD is a rectangle. Find ∠ x. The figure is not drawn to scale

(1) 10o (2) 20o

(3) 50o (4) 80o
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8. Pipe 1 takes 3 hours to fill up the pool while pipe 2 takes 5 hours. How long does it
take to fill up the pool if pipe 1 and pipe 2 are used together?
(1) 4h (2) 8h
7 1
(3) 1 h (4) h
8 4
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9. The figure below is folded to form a cube. What will be seen in the blank face?

(1) B (2) C
(3) E (4) F
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10. 5
Aeron, Ben, John drive at the constant speed. The average speed of Ben is of
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Aeron. The ratio of John’s average speed to Ben’s average speed is 13 : 15. If
Aeron’s average speed is 60 km/h. What is John’s average speed? Give the answer to
the nearest whole number.
(1) 65 km/h (2) 87 km/h
(3) 55 km/h (4) 42 km/h
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11. Which of the following figure(s) has exactly 2 lines of symmetry?

1 2 3 4

(1) 2 and 3 (2) 3 and 4

(3) 4 (4) 3
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12. The following figure is formed by 1 big semi arc and 4 small arcs. Find the
perimeter of the figure assumed that the radius of the big semi arc is 10 cm. (Take π
= 3.14)

(1) 188.4 cm (2) 62.8 cm

(3) 282.6 cm (4) 47.1 cm
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13. Each month Salma saved some money. The average saving of Salma over a couple
of months was $78. If she saved $12 more on the last month, her average saving
became $82. How many months did Salma save money?
(1) 3 (2) 4
(3) 36 (4) 48
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14. Find the percentage of the unshaded area in the below figure?

(1) 25% (2) 50%

(3) 60% (4) 75%
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15. 3
Mrs Lee was typing a report. She typed h at an average speed of 50 words per
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minute. Then, she increased her speed to 70 words per minute and typed for 20
minutes. How many words did she type in total? Give the answer to the nearest
whole number.
(1) 1438 (2) 3650
(3) 2254 (4) 1568
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Questions 16 to 25 carry 1 mark each. Write your answers in the spaces provided. For
questions which require units, give your answers in the units stated. (10 marks)

16. Find the value of n.

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
+ + + + + + + =n× +1
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

Ans: _____________________

17. Calculate 25.5 ÷ 4

Ans: _____________________

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18. When b = 3, find the value of

9b + 5
13 − 2b

Ans: _____________________

19. The square ABCD has area 98 cm2. Find the length of AC.

A B

D C

Ans: _____________________

20. 236 is the average of 5 consecutive numbers. Find the value of the smallest number.

Ans: _____________________

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21. Use the following table to answer the question below:

A B C D
5 8 11 14
7 10 13 16
9 12 15 18
11 14 17 20

Which column will the number “67” display?

Ans: _____________________

22. The figure is made up of 8 identical semi-circular arcs of diameter 28 cm. Find the
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area of the figure. (Take π = )
7

Ans: _____________________

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23. Mr. Lee drove from his house to his friend’s house at 8.35 a.m. He drove 3 h 45 min
in total. What time did he reach his friend’s house? Give your answer in 24 hour
clock.

Ans: _____________________

24. 2 pupils can plant 2 trees in 10 minutes. How long does it take 20 pupils to grow 20
trees?

Ans: __________________min

25. A truck travels from city X to city Y at an average speed of 80 km/h while a car
travels from city Y to city X at an average speed of 60 km/h. They pass each other
after 30 minutes. How far apart are the two cities?

Ans: _________________ km

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Questions 26 to 30 carry 2 marks each. Show your working clearly in the space below
each question and write your answers in the spaces provided. For questions which require
units, give your answers in the units stated.

26. Mrs. Kan went to grocery to buy some oranges. For every 8 oranges purchased, Mrs.
Kan got 2 oranges free. How many of oranges did she buy in order to get 30 oranges
in total?

Ans: _____________________

27. 8 identical cubes are used to form the below solid. The shaded area is 36 cm2. Find
the volume of the solid?

Ans: _________________cm3

28. The pie chart below shows how Chris spent her money on her trip. How much
money did she spend for the traveling tickets?

Ans: _____________________

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29. Jia Wei buys 2 books and 3 pencils for $ (15n + 13). If each book costs $6, what is
the price of a pencil? Leave your answer in term of n.

Ans: $___________________

30. 32 pupils got the same amount of biscuits in a box. 8 of these pupils gave all of their
biscuits to the rest of the pupils. As the result, the rest of the pupils received 1 more
biscuit each. How many biscuits were there in the box at first?

Ans: _____________________

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 Preliminary Examination 1: Mock Paper 2
Paper 2 (Duration: 1 hr 40 mins)

Questions 1 to 5 carry 2 marks each. Show your workings clearly in the space below each
question and write your answers in the space provided. For questions which require units,
give your answers in the units stated.

1. The shaded part of the figure below is made up of 2 parallelograms. Find the area of
the unshaded part.

Ans: __________________cm2

2. Draw 3 more unit shapes on the grid provided to show tessellation.

Ans: _____________________

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3. A Styrofoam cuboid is 50 cm long 40 cm wide and 30 cm tall. 4-cm cubes are cut
from it. What is the minimum wastage?

Ans: __________________cm3

4. The graph below shows how much money Sebastian spent over a week

$8
$7
$6
$5
$4
$3
$2
$1
$0
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Sebastian had $60 at first.

How much money did he have left at the end of Thursday?

Ans: $___________________

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5. The daily car park charges for are as follows:

First hour $1.50

Each subsequent half hour or part thereof $1.00

Mr. Soh parked his car from 8.15 a.m to 6.10 p.m. How much did he pay for the car
park fee?

Ans: $___________________

For Questions 6 to 18, show your workings clearly in the space provided for each
question and write your answers in the spaces provided. The number of marks awarded is
shown in brackets at the end of each question. (50 marks)

6. Find the area of the shaded triangle given that 3 squares have lengths 4 cm, 5 cm,
and 3 cm respectively. (3 marks)

Ans: _____________________

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7. ABCD is a rectangle and MN//PQ. Find ∠ n. (3 marks)

Ans: _____________________

8. ABCD is a trapezium. Find

(a) ∠ BCD (2 marks)
(b) ∠ ABC (2 marks)
The diagram is not drawn to scale.

Ans: (a)__________________
(b)__________________

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9. 1
Ann and Betty have 40 pieces of colored papers in total. of Betty’s papers is 5
2
1
more than of Ann’s papers. What is the total number of colored papers which
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Betty has? (4 marks)

Ans: _____________________

10. David saves $150 more than Jack. The total money which they save is $958.50. How
much does Jack save? (4 marks)

Ans: _____________________

11. In the figure, not drawn to scale, Point O is the centre of the circle. CN and DM are
straight lines. ∠ OCD = 45o, ∠ OAB = 15o. Find
(a) ∠ NAM (2 marks)
(b) ∠ OBC (2 marks)

Ans: (a)___________________
(b)___________________

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12. A pen factory signed a contract to produce a number of souvenir pens for a company.
The pen company needs to produce pens in 5 days to accomplish the contract.
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On the first day, it produced of the required number of pens.
5
On the second day, it produced another 28 pens.
On the third day, it produced half of the number of pens produced on the first 2 days.
On the fourth day, it produced 9 more pens more than the first day.
On the fifth day, it completed the remaining 64 pens.

How many pens did the factory produce in those 5 days? (4 marks)

Ans: _____________________

13. Ben left Town A at 7.45 a.m and travelled towards Malacca at an average speed of
85 km/h. Rollend left Town A 30 minutes later and travelled to Malacca at the same
route at an average speed of 80 km/h.
(a) How far apart were they at 11 a.m? (2 marks)
(b) If Rollend increased his speed by15 km/h after 15 minutes, how long did he
take to overtake Ben? (2 marks)

Ans: (a)__________________
(b)__________________

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14. Annie, Chris and Lauren have some sweets. If Lauren gives 3 sweets to Annie, they
will have the same amount of sweets. If Annie gives 3 sweets to Lauren, Lauren’s
number of sweets is three times Annie’s sweets. Chris has 5 sweets less than half of
the total sweets which Annie and Lauren have. How many sweets do they have in
total? (4 marks)

Ans: _____________________

15. The figure below shows 8 identical semi arcs. Each arc has the radius of 5 cm.
(a) Find the total area of the shaded parts. (2 marks)
(b) Find the perimeter of the shaded parts. (2 marks)

(Take π = 3.14)

Ans: (a)___________________
(b)___________________

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16. The base of a water tank is a square of side 10 cm. Uncle Tan places eight 5-cm
3
cubes in that tank. He then pours the water into the tank until it is full. Uncle Tan
4
2
removes eight cubes and observes that the water level drops to the height of the
3
tank.
(a) Find the volume of the each cube. (2 marks)
(b) Find the height of the tank. (2 marks)

Ans: (a)__________________
(b)__________________

17. Benson saved one 50-cent coins on the first day. The next day, he saved four 50-cent
coins. Each day, he saved three 50-cent coins more than the previous day.
(a) Complete the table below. (2 marks)

Day Number of coins saved Total number of coins

each day
1 1 1
2 4 5
3 7 12
4
5

(b) How much money did Benson have after the 10th day? (2 marks)

Ans: __________________

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18. 25
In a sports competition, of the competitors were from school A. The ratio of the
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number of school B’s competitors to the number of school C’s competitors is 19 : 23.
School A sent 4 more competitors than school C.
(a) How many competitors were from school C? (2 marks)
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(b) Some competitors from school B left the competition. As the result, of the
21
remaining competitors were from school B. How many competitors from
school B left? (2 marks)

Ans: __________________

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