9 ME 1 ( Q )

Education Bureau
Territory-wide System Assessment 2024
Secondary 3 Mathematics
QUESTION BOOKLET

INSTRUCTIONS
1. There are 47 questions in this paper.
2. Time allowed is 65 minutes.
3. Answer ALL questions in the separate ANSWER BOOKLET.
4. The use of HKEAA approved calculators is permitted.
5. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers should be either exact or
correct to 3 significant figures.
6. Rough work should be done on the rough work sheet provided.
7. The diagrams in this paper are not necessarily drawn to scale.

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SECTION A: Choose the best answer for each question.
You should mark all your answers in the ANSWER BOOKLET.

1. Which of the following is the prime factorisation of 54 ?

A. 69
B. 32  6
C. 1  2  33
D. 2  33

2. Round off 40 780to 2 significant figures.

A. 40 000
B. 40 700
C. 40 800
D. 41 000

3. 3
729 =

A. 3.
B. 9.
C. 27.
D. 81.

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4. Mr Chan has x boxes of batteries. There are 50 batteries in each box. He used up 2 boxes
and divided the rest of the batteries into 60 packs for selling. How many batteries are in each
pack?

50( x  2)
A. batteries
60
50 x  2
B. batteries
60
x2
C. batteries
60
x  50  2
D. batteries
60

5. Which of the following statements is correct ?

1
A. The solution of 2 x  1  0 is .
2
1 1
B. The solution of x   0 is .
2 2
1
C. The solution of 2 x  1  0 is .
2
1 1
D. The solution of   x  0 is .
2 2

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6. Which of the following may represent the graph of the equation x  2 y  5  0 ?

A. B.
y y

x x
O O

C. D.
y y

x
O
x
O

7. 52 =

1
A. .
25

B. 25.
1
C. .
10

D. 10.

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8. Which of the following is NOT a polynomial?

A. 13x + 2y

y
B.  2 y2
13
13
C.  2y
y

D. 26xy 2

9. The length of a rectangle is x cm . Its width is 15 cm . If the perimeter of the rectangle does
not exceed 200 cm , which of the following inequalities can be used to find the range of the
values of x ?

A. 2( x  15)  200
B. 2( x  15)  200
C. 2( x  15)  200
D. 2( x  15)  200

10. Garfield uses a beaker to measure the volume of a can of drink and the result is 200 mL .
Find the percentage error of the measured value.

A. 4.17%
300 mL
B. 6.25%
C. 12.5% 200 mL

D. 66.7%
100 mL

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11. In the figure, the radius of sector OAB is 12 cm and AOB = 72 . Find the area of the
sector. Give the answer correct to 3 significant figures.
A
2
A. 7.54 cm
B. 15.1 cm2
C. 90.5 cm2
D. 181 cm2 72
O B
12 cm

12.

h cm

10 cm

A piece of paper with an area of 200 cm2 is folded into a hollow right circular cylinder without
overlapping. The base diameter and the height of the cylinder are 10 cm and h cm
respectively. Find the value of h . Give the answer correct to 3 significant figures.

A. 2.55
B. 3.18
C. 6.37
D. 12.7

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13. In each of the following figures, PQ is a straight line. Which figure shows that x and y are a
pair of interior angles on the same side?

A. B.
P P
x
x
y y

Q Q

C. D.
P P
x
x
y
y
Q Q

14. Which of the following MAY NOT be a regular polygon?

A. B. C. D.

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15. In the figure, PQR is a right-angled triangle. If PQ = 21 and PR = 29 , find QR .

P
A. 29 2  212

B. 29 2  212
21 29
C. 292  212

D. 292 + 212

Q R

16. P (7, 4) and Q (3, –8) are two points in the rectangular coordinate plane. The coordinates of
the mid-point of PQ are

A. (10, 12) .
B. (5, 6) .
C. ( 4 ,  4 ) .
D. (2, 2) .

17. The slopes of three straight lines  L1,  L2 and  L3 are listed in the table below.

Line L1 L2 L3
12 12 13
Slope 
13 13 12

Which of the following is correct ?

A. L1  L2
B. L1 // L3
C. L2 // L3
D. L2  L3

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18. Referring to the figure, find  . Give the answer correct to 3 significant figures.

A. 28.2 
B. 32.4 15
28
C. 57.6
D. 61.8

19. The table below shows the sale proportions of different types of set lunch sold in a school tuck shop
on a day.
Type of set lunch Proportion of total number
of set lunches sold
A 20%
B 26%
C 19%
D 28%
E 7%

Which of the following is the most suitable for presenting the data above?

A. Pie chart
B. Histogram
C. Stem-and-leaf diagram
D. Cumulative frequency polygon

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20. The following table shows the personal vaccination history and the corresponding frequency of
people who reserved a booking at a vaccination clinic yesterday.

Received Received
Vaccination history Never vaccinated 1 dose to 3 doses more than 3 doses
of vaccine of vaccine

Frequency 1 497 2

According to the table above, find the relative frequency of the people who received 1dose or
more of vaccine.

1
A.
500
2
B.
500
497
C.
500
499
D.
500

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SECTION B: Write ALL the answers in the ANSWER BOOKLET.
Working need not be shown.

21. Calculate 200  [25  (1 + 7  2 )] .

 1  2(8)
22. Calculate  .
3

23. A restaurant sold 1 344 lunch sets today. It is 12% more than the number of lunch sets sold
yesterday. Find the number of lunch sets sold by the restaurant yesterday.

24. In each of the following situations, determine whether the relationship between x and y is direct
proportion or inverse proportion.

(i) A bottle of soft drink is divided into x cups equally. Each cup has y mL .
(ii) A ticket for a theme park is sold at $200 . Wilson pays $y to buy x tickets.

25. A fruit shop sold 150 apples and mangoes in total, 70 of which were mangoes. Find the ratio of
the number of apples to the number of mangoes sold.

26. The diameter of the pollen of a plant is about 0.000 04 m. Use scientific notation to represent the
diameter.

27. Expand (x + 2)(3x  5) .

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 28. Factorise2x2 + 7x + 3.

29. Factorise x2  2x + 1 .

f2
30. Consider the formula  a = . If f = 5 , m = 9  and n = 3, find the value of a .
mn

31. Solve the inequality 2x  8 .

32. The figure shows Solids P , Q and R . If each surface of the solids is either a square or an
equilateral triangle, which of the following solids can satisfy ALL descriptions below?
(May be more than one answer)
I. It is a prism.
II. It is a right solid.

Solid P Solid Q Solid R

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 33. Use the given letters to represent the quadrilateral shown in the figure.

D C

34. In the figure, ABC  DEF . Find

(a) the value of m ,
(b) the value of n .

D
A

87 6

51 n
B m C F 9 E

35. A

8 6
53
B C
10
Which of the following triangles MUST be similar to ABC as shown in the above figure?
(May be more than one answer)

Triangle P Triangle Q Triangle R

9 16
4 3
53 53
5
15 20

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 36. In the figure, ABCD is a parallelogram. It is given that AC is the diagonal, BCA = 58
and BAC = 60. Find x.

A D
x
60

58
B C

37. The stem-and-leaf diagram below shows the scores a basketball team got in each match last year.

Scores of a basketball team got in each match last year

Stem (10) Leaf (1)
4 0 3
5 4 7 9 9
6 1 2 4 6 8 8 8
7 1 3 3 7 9
8 0 8

According to the above stem-and-leaf diagram, answer the following questions.

(a) How many matches did the basketball team play last year?
(b) What was the lowest score the basketball team got in the matches last year?
(c) Find the median score the basketball team got in the matches last year.

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 38. The cumulative frequency curve below shows the distribution of time spent on physical exercise by
all students of a school last week.

Time spent on physical exercise by all

students of a school last week
500

400
Cumulative frequency

300

200

100

0
2 3 4 5 6
Time (hours)

According to the above diagram, answer the following questions.

(a) How many students does the school have?
(b) What was the number of students who spent less than 3 hours on physical exercise last week?

39. The following table shows the price indices and their corresponding weight of the four types of
household expenditure (clothing, food, housing and transport) of a city in the previous year.

Household expenditure
Clothing Food Housing Transport
Price index 42 53 68 38
Weight 15% 30% 40% 15%

Find the weighted mean price index of these four types of household expenditure of the city in the
previous year.

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 SECTION C: All working must be clearly shown.
Write the mathematical expressions, answers and statements/conclusions
in the spaces provided in the ANSWER BOOKLET.

40. Peter deposits $5 000 in a bank. After 4 years, he will receive simple interest of
$1 000. Find the annual interest rate.

3x  8
41. Complete the table for the equation y = in the ANSWER BOOKLET.
4

x –4 0 4
y 2

According to the table, plot the graph of this equation on the rectangular coordinate plane given in
the ANSWER BOOKLET.

42. (a) Simplify ( x 5 )3 and express the answer with positive index.

(b) Simplify  x – 2 ( x 5 )3 and express the answer with positive index.

43. In the figure, the radius of sector OAB is 10 cm and AOB = 140 . Let x be the arc
length of the sector, find x . Give the answer correct to 3 significant figures.
x

A B
140
10 cm
O

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 44. In the figure, Solid A and Solid B are similar and the total surface areas are 200 cm2 and
1 800 cm2 respectively. Their bases are circles. The base diameter of Solid B is 12 cm .
Find the base diameter of Solid A .

12 cm

Solid A Solid B

45. In the figure, AEB and FED are straight lines. It is given that ECD = 42° , CED = 73
and  FEB = 115° . Prove that AB // CD .

115
A E B
73

42
C D

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 46. The following frequency distribution table shows the recovery time of 35 patients suffering from
influenza.

Recovery time
1 – 24 25  48 49  72 73  96 97  120 121  144 145  168
(hours)
Frequency 1 4 9 11 5 3 2

(a) According to the above table, complete the cumulative frequency distribution table in the
ANSWER BOOKLET.
(b) Construct a cumulative frequency polygon in the ANSWER BOOKLET to represent the
above data.

47. The following shows the monthly electricity consumption (kWh) of a company last year.

4 300, 5 300, 5 800, 6 300, 6 600, 7 200, 7 300, 8 100, 9 100, 11 600, 11 700, 12 700

It is given that the mean of the monthly electricity consumption of the company last year was 
8 000 kWh. Hence, the manager claimed, “Last year, over half of the monthly electricity
consumptions were more than 8 000 kWh.”
Do you agree with the manager? Explain your answer.

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