GPLMS MATHEMATICS

NOVEMBER 2014 EXAMINATION

GRADE 7

DURATION: 90 MINUTES DATE:__ NOVEMBER 2014

SURNAME: BOY GIRL

NAME:

DATE OF BIRTH:
_______
100
SCHOOL:

PROVINCE:

NAME OF TEACHER:
Instructions to Learners:
1. Answer all questions
2. Write neatly and show all your calculations
3. No Calculator allowed
4. Duration 2 hours (120 minutes)

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SECTION A
There are FIVE multiple choice questions in Section A. For each question FOUR possible answers are
given and only ONE answer is correct. For each multiple choice question select answer and indicate your
choice by means of a CIRCLE on the corresponding letter.

Example: 7 x 15 = _________

A 105 B 110 C 115 D 120

Question 1 (5marks)
1.1 The letter A is rotated 180° about O. What will the position of A be now?

A. B. C. D.

1.2 Choose the statement:

73 =

A. 7 × 3 B. 7 + 7 + 7 C. 7 × 7 × 7 D. 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3

1.3 A factory manufactures dresses and shirts: 3 dresses are manufactured for every 4 shirts. In a week the factory
produced a total of 420 dresses and shirts. How many of these were dresses?

A. 180 B. 240 C.140 D.315

1.4 A square has 2 diagonals and a pentagon has 5. How many diagonals does a regular octagon have? (An
octagon has 8 sides.)

A.19 B. 28 C.16 D. 24

1.5 Bus A leaves Gauteng at 10:00 and travels north at 50 km/h. Bus B leaves Gauteng at 12:00 along the same
route at 70 km/h. At what time will bus B pass bus A?

A. 11:30 B. 15:00 C. 18:00 D. 17:00

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SECTION B: Answer ALL the questions
QUESTION 1 (10 marks)
1.1 Complete:
a. 7 342 651 = (7 000 000) + (3 × 100 000) + ( ____________________ ) +2 000 + 651 (1)

b. Round off 59 673 to the nearest 10 000.: ______________________________________ (1)

c. Simplify: 10 + 4 2 = __________________________________________________ (1)

d. Fill in the correct operational sign: 10 _______. 2 + 4 = 9 (1)

e. (14 ÷ 2) + (51 – 48) = __________ (1)

f. 2³ = _________________ (1)

g. Using Prime factors determine the following: = (2)

h. Write down the multiples of 7 between 21 and 56. (1)

i. Re-arrange the numbers from the smallest to the biggest. 4,5 : 4,3 ; 4,01 ; 4,8
____________________________________________ (1)

QUESTION 2 (12 marks)

2.1 Fill <; > or = in the space provided: (1)

2.2 Calculate:
a. (Write your answer in the simplest form) (3) b. 2 (Leave your answer in improper form) (4)

c. 5 (2) d. of 28 (2)

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QUESTION 3 (8 marks)

3.1 What is the place value of the underlined digit in 53486? _____________________ (1)

3.2 Calculate:
a. 6,5 – 2,34 (2) b. 0,06 0,3 (2)

c. 3,7 1,4 (3)

QUESTION 4 (9 marks)

4.1 Fill in <; > or =:

a. (1) b. (1)

Calculate:
4.2 a. (1) b. (1)

c. (1)

d. (2) e. (2)

QUESTION 5 (7 marks)

5.1 Find the value of in the following equations:

a. (1) b. (1)

5.2 Insert brackets to make the number sentence 18 + 12 2 = 15 true. (1)

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5.3 a) Solve the following by inspection and check your solution: (4)
i. Check:

ii. Check:

QUESTION 6 (10 marks)

6.1 Complete the flow diagram by indicate what both “a” and “b” will be below: (2)

1 4

2 7

3 10
a? b?
4 13

10 31

c) Write the rule of the above pattern:

_________________________________________________________________ (3)

6.2 Making patterns by sliding (translating), reflecting and turning (rotation):

a. Two of the rectangles can be rotated to fit exactly b. What kind of transformation is illustrated
onto the adjacent below? (1)
rectangles. Name the
rectangles? (1)

A B C D
________________________________________

c. Describe the translation which

transformed (changed) the position of
triangle A to that of triangle B. (2)
A

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 6.3 What is the value of A in the fourth figure? A = _____ (1)

QUESTION 7: DATA HANDLING (26 marks)

a) The table gives the number of learners in a Grade 7 class who come to school by bus over a period of 13 days.
Days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Number of learners 16 14 13 15 16 14 17 16 17 16 16 15 15

i. What is the mode (most frequent number)? _______________________ (1)

ii. Write the number of learners for the 13 days in ascending order: _______________________ (1)

iii. What is the median (middle-most number)? ______________________ (2)

iv. What is the range? (1)

v. Calculate the mean (average)? Round your answer off to 1 decimal place. (4)

vi. Display the above data for the following days in a frequency table: (6)
Days Tally Frequency
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7

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vii. Use the above frequency table and draw a bar graph on the given grid? (5)

17
LEARNERS

16
15
14
13

3 4 5 6 7
DAYS

b. This is the scores of J. Kallis a South African cricket player:

17; 61; 25; 37; 35; 45; 59; 19; 22; 38; 44; 32; 26; 55; 43

1 7 9
2 2 5 6
3 2 5 7 8
4 3 4 5
5 5 9
6 1
Answer the following questions:

i. Name the display of data?

______________________________________________________ (1)

ii. Write down the lowest score?

______________________________________________________ (1)

iii. Write down the highest score?

_______________________________________________________ (1)

iv. Find the median

____________________________________________________ (1)
v. Calculate the mean? (2)

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 Question 8 (3 marks)
PROBABILITY
A bowls player has 6 green balls, 4 red balls and 10 yellow balls in his bowls bag.
What is the probability of drawing the following at random?

a) A green ball : _______________________________________________ (1)

b) A ball : ____________________________________________________ (1)

c) A green or red ball : _________________________________________ (1)

Question 9
Radio and rate ( 4 marks)
If Thando gets 10 marks and Dani 20 for a project, complete the following using the simplest form:

a) The ratio of Thando’smarks to Dani’s marks is __________________________________ (1)

b) Dani’s mark … times Thando’s marks. ________________________________________ (1)

c) My mom mixes 6 parts of water with 4 parts of orange juice cordial.

i) What is the ratio water to orange juice cordial? ____________________________ (1)

ii) Write the fraction (in the simplest form) _________________________________ (1)

Question 10 (6 marks)
Geometry of 3D Objects
A
B

Refer to the above 3-D figures and complete the table:

Questions A B
a) the name of each figure

b) how many faces in A and B.

c) what the shape of the faces are.

TOTAL: 100

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