MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, HERITAGE & ARTS

FIJI YEAR 7 FINAL EXAMINATION 2019

MATHEMATICS

Time Allowed: 1½ hours

(An extra 10 minutes is allowed for reading this paper)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Write all your answers in the Answer Booklet provided.

2. Write your Name and Year Level on the front page of the Answer Booklet.
3. If you use extra sheets of paper, be sure to show clearly the question
number(s) being answered and to staple each sheet securely in your Answer
Booklet at the appropriate place.
4. Answer all the questions with a blue or black ballpoint or ink pen. Do not
use red ink. Use a pencil only for drawing.

5. There are two sections in this paper. Both Sections A and B are compulsory.

6. The diagrams in this paper are not drawn to scale.

SUMMARY OF QUESTIONS

SUGGESTED
SECTION QUESTION TYPE MARK
TIME

A There are twenty Multiple Choice

Questions 40 36 minutes
All are compulsory.

B There are fourteen short-answer questions. 60 54 minutes

All are compulsory.

TOTAL 100 90 minutes

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INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO ANSWER MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. In your Answer Booklet, circle the letter of the best answer.

If you change your mind, put a line through your first circle
and draw a circle around the letter of your next choice.

For example: 1 A B C D

2. If you change your mind again and like your first answer
better, put a line through your second circle and tick (P)
your first answer.

For example: 1 A B C D
P

3. No mark will be given if you circle more than one letter as the
answer for a question.
 

SECTION A [40 marks]

MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

There are twenty questions in this section. Each question is worth 2 marks.
Answer all questions.

Circle the letter of the best answer in the Answer Booklet.

1. Thirty five thousand written as a number is

A. 350 B. 3,500 C. 35,000 D. 350,000

2. Which set of numbers is arranged in ascending order?

A. {4,976 6,325 7,641 9,217}

B. {6,325 4,976 7,641 9,217}
C. {7,641 9,217 6,325 4,976}
D. {9,217 7,641 6,325 4,976}

3. The number 7,485 when rounded off to the nearest hundreds will be

A. 7,000 B. 7,400 C. 7,500 D. 8,000

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4. Which set best describes all the factors of 50?

A. {2, 25} C. {1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50}

B. {1, 2, 25} D. {50, 100, 150, 200, 250}

5. The fourth square number is

A. 4 B. 16 C. 36 D. 64

6. –6–4=

A. – 10 B. −  2 C. 2 D. 10

7. The number that breaks the sequence is

{250, 225, 215, 200, 175, 150}

A. 150 B. 175 C. 200 D. 215

8. The value of y in 3y + 4 = 16 is

A. 4 B. 12 C. 13 D. 16

9. What is the area of the given shape?

A. 26 cm2 B. 18 cm2 C. 14 cm2 D. 12 cm2

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10. Study the circle given below and answer the question.

𝟐𝟐
14 cm 𝜋 =
𝟕

When the diameter of the circle is 14 cm, the circumference will be _________.

A. 22 cm B. 44 cm C. 77 cm D. 154 cm

11. 5,723 millilitres (ml) converted to Litres (L) is

A. 0.005723 L B. 0. 05723 L C. 0.5723 L D. 5.723 L

12. Mr Kumar weighs 95 kg and his eldest son weighs 45.05 kg. What is the
difference in their weights?

A. 49.95 kg B. 95 kg C. 95. 5 kg D. 140.05 kg

13. What time would be one and a half hours from 6.30 pm?

A. 5 pm B. 8 pm C. 9 pm D. 10 pm

14. Mrs. Singh bought a bundle of dalo for $10 from a farmer and she later sold it
for $15 at the market. How much profit did she make?

A. $ 5 B. $ 10 C. $ 15 D. $ 25

15. Study the coordinate plane given below.

y
4
3
2
B
1

0 x
1 2 3 4 5 6
The coordinates for point B are:
A. (1, 4) B. (1, 5) C. (4, 1) D. (5, 1)
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16. Use the diagram to answer the question given below.

The diagram above is a

A. cylinder. B. cone. C. sphere. D. circle.

17. How many faces are there in the triangular pyramid given below?

A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 7

18. Study the diagram given below and answer Question 18.

Object
A
Image B C

B C

Which one of the statements given below correctly describes the

translation of the above triangle?
‘
`
A. 2 units down. C. 10 units to the right and 2 units down.
B. 10 units to the left. D. 10 units to the left and 2 units down.
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19. A jar contains 3 white marbles, 7 blue marbles and 10 red marbles.
If a marble is drawn from the jar at random what is the probability
that this marble is red?

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A. C.
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B. D.
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20. Study the table given below and answer the question.

Tima’s Exam Marks

English Maths Basic Social Healthy Vernacular
Science Science Living
90 76 80 88 85 92

The range of the above marks is_________.

A. 16 B. 76 C. 88 D. 92

SECTION B [60 marks]

There are14 questions in this section. Answer all the questions.
Write the answer for each question in the space provided in the
Answer Booklet. Show all the necessary working.

QUESTION 1
Answer all the questions. Each question is worth 1 mark.

(a) The place value of 7 in 15.273 is _______________.

(b) 2,462 ÷ 2 =

(c)

0 1 2 3 4 5
-6 -5 -4 a -2 -1 6

The missing value for a is _________________.

(d) Solve for n if 2n = 10.

(e) 5,250 grams is equal to _____________ kilograms.

(f) 1350 hours is _____________ p.m.

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(g) Banks charge ____________ on the amount borrowed.

(h) The diagram given below is a __________________.

A B

(i) A cuboid has _________ faces.

(j) Use the table given below to answer the question.

Favourite Subjects Of Year 7 Students of a School

Subjects Maths English Basic Social Healthy Vernacular
Science Science Living
Number 15 22 12 11 25 11
of
Children

Which subject is liked the most by Year 7 students?

QUESTION 2 – 6 (15 marks)

Each question is worth 3 marks. Answer all the questions.

2. Three friends ran a competition to collect plastic bottles in a year.

Rajiv collected 2,500 plastic bottles, Sunia collected 1,500 plastic
bottles and Tanya collected 1,000 plastic bottles.

(a) How many bottles were collected altogether by the three

friends? (1 mark)

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(b) If of the collected plastic bottles are used for water storage,
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how many bottles will be used? (1 mark)

(c) What fraction of the plastic bottles will be remaining after

storing the water? (1 mark)

3. During a class party, Kara brought 85 cupcakes to school.

She gave 2 cupcakes to each student and 3 cupcakes to her teacher.

(a) Write an equation to calculate the number of students for

the above statement. Let n represent the number of students. (1 mark)

(b) Calculate the number of students in Kara’s class. (2 marks)

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4. A retail shop owner bought 10 shirts for $300. He sold it with a

10% profit for each shirt.

(a) What was the cost price for each shirt? (1 mark)

(b) What is the total profit of the shirts sold? (1 mark)

(c) What was the selling price for each shirt? (1 mark)

5. Use the diagram given in your Answer Booklet to answer the

question given below.

Plot, label and join the given coordinates to complete the shape.

A = (1, 5) B = (3, 6) C = (5, 6)

D = (7, 5) E = (5, 4) F = (3, 4) (3 marks)

6. Study the graph on Favourite fruits of Year 7 students given below

and answer the questions that follow.

Favourite Fruits of Year 7 Students

14

12

Number of
10
students
8

Banana Guava Pawpaw Mango

(a) Which fruit is least liked by the students? (1 mark)

(b) How many more students like banana than pawpaw? (1 mark)

(c) How many students are there altogether in this class? (1 mark)

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QUESTION 7 – 11 (20 marks)

Each question is worth 4 marks. Answer all the questions.

7. The diagram below shows the likeness of two common games by a

group of Year 7 students.

Set A - students who like soccer.

Set B - students who like rugby.

A B
Freddy
Siya Jo Api
Kunal Selai Meena
Ben Simon Meli
Grace

(a) List Set A. (1 mark)

(b) List Set B. (1 mark)
(c) List A ∪ B. (1 mark)
(d) How many students like both the games? (1 mark)

8. In a festival a number machine game was played. Numbers were put

into the number machine and the output numbers were predicted.
Anisha put the following numbers in to the number machine and out
came the numbers.

Input 3 5 7
Output 9 15 21

(a) What is the rule of this number machine? (2 marks)

(b) If a number 11 is put into the machine, what will be the

output? (1 mark)

(c) If a number 39 comes out as the output from the number

machine, what will be the input? (1 mark)

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9. Ram prepared 4 square gardens to plant vegetables. Each garden

has a perimeter of 14 metres.

(a) Calculate the length of one side of a garden. (2 marks)

(b) What will be the total area of the 4 gardens? (2 marks)

10. Fill in correct words to complete the given statements in the

Answer Booklet.

(a) A ____________ has one circular base and a ______________

connected by a curved surface. (2 marks)

Seru constructed the shape given below in a Mathematics lesson.

𝟏
h = 7cm V= 𝝅 r2h
𝟑

r = 3 cm

(b) Find the volume of the above shape using the given formula. (2 marks)

11. Given below are the weights in kg of a group of Year 7 students

46 55 52 46 43 58

(a) Find the average weight of the students. (2 marks)

Study the table below and answer the questions.

The table below shows the school roll of a Primary School from 2014
to 2018.
Year Number of students
2014 295
2015 315
2016 323
2017 340
2018 354
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(b) In which year was there a huge increase in number of

students’ enrolment? (1 mark)

(c) How many more students were enrolled in 2018 than in

2017? (1 mark)

QUESTION 12 – 14 (15 marks)

Each question is worth 5 marks. Answer all the questions.
12. Mrs. Smith had $3,600 in her bank account. She withdrew 60% of
the money to buy a new washing machine.

(a) What fraction of the money was left in the bank? (2 marks)

(b) Calculate the amount of money that was withdrawn to

buy the washing machine? (2 marks)

(c) What amount was left in the bank after buying the washing
machine? (1 mark)

13. Given below is a diagram of James vegetable farm which he had

decided to fence before planting the vegetables.
20 m

10 m 12 m
118 m18 m

35 m
(a) Calculate the length of wire needed to fence the garden if
he plans to put two layers of wire around the garden. (2 marks)

(b) What is the area of the vegetable garden? (2 marks)

(c) If a metre of fencing wire cost $6.50, what would be the

cost of two layers of fencing wire? (1 mark)

14. Use the diagram given in the Answer Book to answer the questions
that follow.
(a) Reflect the given shape on the mirror line in the Answer
Booklet. Draw and label the image. (4 marks)

(b) Name the shape ABCD. (1 mark)

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