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Chapter 1 Computation and Financial Mathematics: Pre-Test

The document contains a pre-test with multiple choice and free response math problems evaluating skills like evaluating expressions, rewriting fractions, ordering decimals, performing operations, and word problems. It also includes key ideas and exercises reviewing computation with integers, factors, multiples, primes, and operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on integers. There are also enrichment sections on special numbers and quotes about mathematics and attitudes.

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Chapter 1 Computation and Financial Mathematics: Pre-Test

The document contains a pre-test with multiple choice and free response math problems evaluating skills like evaluating expressions, rewriting fractions, ordering decimals, performing operations, and word problems. It also includes key ideas and exercises reviewing computation with integers, factors, multiples, primes, and operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on integers. There are also enrichment sections on special numbers and quotes about mathematics and attitudes.

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Chapter 1 Computation and Financial Mathematics Name: -----------------------------------------

Pre-test
1) Evaluate each of the following:
a) 5 + 6 × 2 17 b) 12 ÷ 4 × 3 + 2 11 c) 12 ÷ (4 × 3) + 2 3 d) 3 + (18 – 2 × (3 + 4) + 1) -5

e) 8 – 12 f) –4 + 3 g) –2 × 3 h) –18 ÷ (–9)

11
2) Write 5 as a:
a) mixed number b) decimal

3) Evaluate each of the following.


a) 32 b) 25 c) (–4) 2 d) 2 3

3 7
4) Determine which is larger, 4 or 9 by:
a) rewriting with the lowest common denominator
b) converting to decimals (to three decimal places where necessary).

5) Arrange the numbers in each of the following sets in descending order.


a) 2.645, 2.654, 2.465 and 2.564 b) 0.456, 0.564, 0.0456 and 0.654

6) Evaluate each of the following.


a) 4.26 + 3.73 b) 3.12 + 6.99 c) 10.89 – 3.78

7) Evaluate each of the following.


a) 7 × 0.2 b) 0.3 × 0.2 c) 2.3 × 1.6
d) 4.2 × 3.9 e) 14.8 ÷ 4 f) 12.6 ÷ 0.07

8) Evaluate each of the following.


a) 0.345 × 100 b) 3.74 × 1 000 000
c) 37.54 ÷ 1 000 d) 3.754 ÷ 1 00 000

9) Find the lowest common denominator for these pairs of fractions.


1 1 1 1 1 1
a) 3 and 5 b) 6 and 4 c) 5 and 10
10) Evaluate each of the following.
2 3 1 3 2 3 1
 2   2
a) 7 7 b) 2 2 c) 3 4 d) 2
11) Find:
a) 50% of 26 b) 10% of 600 c) 9% of 90

Key ideas
Exercise 1A Review Computation with integers
1)Write down these sets of numbers.
a) The factors of 16 b) The factors of 56 c) The HCF of 16 and 56
d) The first 7 multiples of 3 e) The first 6 multiples of 5 f) The LCM of 3 and 5
g) The first 10 prime numbers starting from 2
h) All the prime numbers between 80 and 110

2) Evaluate the following.


a) 112 b) 15 2 c) 144 d) 400
3 3
e) 33 f) 5 3 g) 8 g) 64

3) Evaluate the following.


a) 5 – 10 b) –6 – 2 c) –3 + 2 d) –9 + 18

e) 2 + (–3) f) –6 + (–10) g) 11 – (–4) h) –21 – (–30)

i) 2 × (–3) j) –21 × 4 k) –11 × (–2) l) –3 × (–14)

m) 18 ÷ –2 n) –36 ÷ 6 o) –100 ÷ (–10) p) –950 ÷ (–50)


11) Margret and Mildred meet on a Eurostar train travelling from London to Paris. Margret visits her daughter in
Paris every 28 days. Mildred visits her son in Paris every 36 days. When will Margret and Mildred have a
chance to meet again on the train? 252 days

12)a) The sum of two numbers is 5 and their difference is 9. What are the two numbers? 7, -2
b) The sum of two numbers is –3 and their product is –10. What are the two numbers?

13) Two opposing football teams have squad sizes of 24 and 32. For a training exercise, each squad is to divide
Into smaller groups of equal size. What is the largest number of players in a group if the group size for
both squads is the same? 8
Enrichment: Special numbers

“Gratitude should be our “attitude” that determines our “altitude”.


“Mathematics makes the invisible visible.”
“It’s not what you do once in a while; it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.” Jenny Craig
“Be flexible, be creative, and be prepared.”
Pre-Test Answers

1A Answers

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