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CSEC MATHEMATICS Assignment 1

This document is an assignment sheet for a CSEC Mathematics exam containing 30 questions to be completed by September 17, 2015. It provides a variety of math problems including evaluating expressions, finding percentages, ordering fractions, simplifying expressions, and solving word problems involving profit, cost price, selling price, time, and rates. Students are instructed to show all work to receive full marks and are provided two marks for each correct response.

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CSEC MATHEMATICS Assignment 1

This document is an assignment sheet for a CSEC Mathematics exam containing 30 questions to be completed by September 17, 2015. It provides a variety of math problems including evaluating expressions, finding percentages, ordering fractions, simplifying expressions, and solving word problems involving profit, cost price, selling price, time, and rates. Students are instructed to show all work to receive full marks and are provided two marks for each correct response.

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Portmore Community College

1
CSEC MATHEMATICS

Assignment 1 - Total 60 marks Due – Thursday, September 17, 2015

Answer the following questions. Show all working to obtain full marks. Two marks for each correct
response.

Prepared by H. Walker September 2015


1. Evaluate 15.96 x 0.5. following day. How many hours did the
2
journey take?
2. Given 5200 out of 6500 voted in an
election, what is percentage that did not 20. An article which costs $1336 may be
purchased by depositing $580 and
vote?
3. Find the missing number in the sequence making monthly installments of $42.

1 1 How many months are required to


12, 10 , _____ , 7, 5 .
3 3 complete the payments?
4. The number 43849 written to four 3
21. Simplify .
0.5
significant figures is ___________.
5. Which of the following number is prime? 0.25
22. Find the value of .
100
257 or 256 or 255 or 254 . Why?
23. Name a quadrilateral in which its
6. Express 0.00769 in standard form.
diagonals are perpendicular to each other
a c
7. If  , which of the following is and equal.
b d

true? a + b = c + d or a – b = c – d or 24. Express 0.004967 in standard form to

bd = ac or bc = ad three significant figures.

8. Arrange the following fractions in 25. If 3p is an odd number, which of the

7 1 1 1 following is a an even number?


descending order: , , , .
8 5 3 2 3p + 4p or 3p – 1 or 3p + 2 or 3p – 2
9. A man takes home $418 after 24 per cent 26. Evaluate (9.4)2 – (0.6)2.
of his salary was deducted for tax. What Hint: Difference of two squares
was the amount he paid in tax? 27. Express 4089 in standard form.
10. A bag of flour marked to give 150% 28. If a*b means 3a + b, find 1*3.
profit was originally sold for $60. What 29. Simplify (2m)3 + 2m3
is the marked price? p 3q
30. Simplify .
11. Express 4652 to the nearest hundred. q2 p

12. Evaluate 44.4  0.01.


13. The cost of posting a 10kg parcel is
$24.50. What is the cost of posting a
parcel weighing 6kg?
14. A salesperson sold an article to make a
profit of 20% on his cost price of $80.
What was the selling price?
15. A shopkeeper bought sweets at $1.00
per dozen and sold them at $1.50 per
dozen. Calculate his percentage profit.
16. Identify two whole numbers, where
the 165 lie between them.
17. Evaluate 25 x 13 + 7 x 25.
18. Calculate the loss percentage, if eight
books costing $30 each was sold for $180.
19. A man leaves home at 20:15 hrs and
reaches his destination at 06:00 hrs the
Prepared by H. Walker September 2015

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