REVISION QUESTIONS

Part A
1. Approximate 589.57 to the nearest whole number.
(a) 589.0 (b) 589.6 (c) 590.0 (d) 590.5
2. Find 45% of 2800.
(a) 2350 (b) 1800 (c) 1450 (d) 1260
3. Convert 1100112 to base ten
(a) 42 (b) 50 (c) 51 (d) 22
4. If it takes 6 days for four men to finish a piece of work. How many days will it take
two men to do the same piece of work if they work at the same rate?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 12
5. What is the H.C.F of 21, 63, 91 and 105?
(a) 3 (b) 7 (c) 21 (d) 63
64
6. Find √
225
4 1 8 5
(a) (b) (c) (d)
9 2 15 7
22
7. Calculate the area of a circle of radius 2cm. (π= )
7
5 3 4 6
(a). 17 cm2 (b) 17 cm2 (c) 12 cm2 (d) 8 cm2
7 7 7 7
1
1 2 +2
8. Evaluate 1
16

1 1
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) 3
2 2

9. If 6x - 3x + x = 24, find the value of x

(a) 9 (b) 8 (c) 6 (d) 5
22
10. If the circumference of a circle is 44cm, find its radius. π=
7

(a) 44cm (b) 7cm (c) 22cm (d) 14cm

1 1 1
11. Simplify: 1 + + 2
2 3 4
1 1 1 1
(a) 4 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 3
2 12 4 12

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 12. Find the value of the angle marked x in the diagram below.

520 x0

(a) 39 (b) 38 (c) 41 (d) 45

13. In the diagram below, AB is a straight line. Find the value of angle k.

K0
75 0
600

(a) 36 (b) 38 (c) 40 (d) 45

6cm

xcm
14. Find the value of x in the figure above.
(a) 9 (b) 8 (c) 6 (d) 4
15. How many sweets at 25k each can be bought for N240?
(a) 600 (b) 960 (c) 720 (d) 840
16. If N4200.00 was shared between Kola and Bola such that Bola got three-quarters of
the share of Kola. How much did Kola get?
(a) N2000 (b) N2100 (c) N2800 (d) N2400
17. A hollow cuboid measures 6m by 1.5m by 20cm. How many litres of liquid can it
hold?
(a) 1.8 litres (b) 18litres (c) 180litres (d) 1800litres
18. Find the positive difference between the sum of 1.8 and 3, and the product of 8 and
0.3
(a) 7.2 (b) 3.9 (c) 2.4 (d) 1.5
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19. The perimeter of a rectangle is 42cm and its length is x cm. Find its width.
(a) (42-x)cm (b) (21-x)cm (c) (21+x)cm (d) (21-2x)cm
20. David thinks of a number. 18 is subtracted from the number, the result gives -2.
What is the number?
(a) 14 (b) 16 (c) 18 (d) 20
21. Two numbers have a sum of 15 and a product of 26. What are they?
____________
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22. How many months are in of a year?__________________
4

23. A melon costs 99p and an orange costs 18p. How much more does the melon cost
than the orange? ______________________
24. The sum of three consecutive even numbers is 72. What is the highest number?
_____________________
25. Two numbers have a difference of twenty. One of the numbers is 36. What could
the other number be? _______________
26. Abdul is 17cm taller than his brother Raj. Raj is 130cm tall. How tall is Abdul?
________________________
27. What fraction of 1kg is 250g? ____________________
28. What is the sum of the interior angles of a regular octagon? _______________
29. From ‘y’ weeks take away 5 days. Write the expression for the number of days
that
remain.
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30. Write 72 % as a fraction in its lowest term
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Part B
1. I have 2 boxes of y chocolates. If I get 2 more chocolates from my friend, how many
chocolates do I have in total? Write in expression:
2. The length of a rectangle is 5 times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 144m.
How wide is the rectangle?

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3. Solve 1100112 – 10112 in base 2
4. Find the sum of 1010112 and 110112 in base two
5. Change 3410 to a number in base three
6. Change 5310 to base two
7. Change 1100112 to base 10
8. One number is 6 times another number and their difference is 30. Find the numbers.
9. A rope 50 cm long was mistakenly measured as 45cm. What is the percentage error?
10. How much would N1000 amount to if it is increased by 45%?
11. Express 250g as a percentage of 2kg
12. Change 35% to a fraction in its lowest terms.
13
13. Change to a percentage
20

14. A man whose monthly salary was N120 000 receives an increase of 25%. Calculate
his present monthly salary.

15. Point A of the triangle is translated to coordinates (8, 9).

Draw the triangle in its new position

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2𝑚+𝑛
16. What is the value of , if m= 15, n = 5, p = 10 and q = 3?
𝑝−𝑞

24 𝑥 3 𝑦 5
17. Simplify:
16 𝑥 4 𝑦 2
42 21
18. What is the value of t in the equation? =
𝑡 2

19. Solve 1100112 – 11112 in base 2

20. A rope is 200 metres long. If 35% of the total length is cut off, calculate the length
of the remaining part of the rope.
21. School fees in a certain state were increased from N200 000 to N250 000 per term.
What is the percentage increase?
𝑥 7
22. What is the value of x if = ?
6 3

23. A farmer has 400 cattle in his garden. He bought 25% more, how many cattle does
he have now?
1
.25. Write 72 % as a fraction in its lowest term
2

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27. How many cups of coffee were sold in week 2?

28. What percentage of all cups was sold in week 1?

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29. The price of a delicious cup of coffee is N100. How much did the coffeeshop
earn on cups of coffee in weeks 1,2 and 3 together?
30. 15% of the people who drank a cup of coffee also ordered a N50
doughnut. How many doughnuts were sold in the last 2 weeks?

31. What percentage of the surveyed people liked the Titanic the most?
32. What percentage of the interviewed people liked Rocky the most?
33. What fraction of the people liked either Frozen or Toy Story the best?
34. What was the ratio of people who liked Toy Story to that of the total
number?
of people?
35. How many people were asked about their favourite film?
36. What was the ratio of people who liked Rocky to the Godfather?
37. The distance between Amsterdam and Paris is 500 km. It will take a
TGV train 2.5 hours to travel between the 2 cities. How fast is this train?
38. The distance between my house and work is 50 km. If I go by motorbike
at an average speed of 25 km/h, how long will this distance take me?
39. Yesterday I drove 9 hours at a speed of 120 km/h. How many kilometres
did I drive?
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 40. Yesterday I walked 12 kilometres in the park at an average speed of 2.5
km/h. For how long did I walk in the park?
41. If x= -2, y = 3 and z = -1, find 3x + 2y – z
42. A boy measured a desk as 30m instead of 50m. Calculate the percentage error in
the measurement.
43. Simplify (3x -4) + ( 2x + 1)
44. How many people altogether can travel in six 4-seater cars, four 3- seater cars and
five 2- seater cars?
45. 16 out of a class of 28 were girls. What fraction of the class were boys?
46. What fraction of one year is 26 weeks?
47. The sum of two numbers is 10 and their product is 24. What are these numbers?
48. Solve for x: 4x + 1 = 13
49. If a =2, b= 3 and c = 1. What is a2 + c2 – b2
50. I weigh 3kg more than my brother. Our total weight is 185kg. How much does my
brother weigh?

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