Oxford Mathematics for the New Century

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Term Exam Paper 1A (2021-2022)

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Class: Full marks: 200

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Short Questions (55 marks)

Answer ALL questions and give your solutions in the spaces provided.

1. Find the H.C.F. and the L.C.M. of 22  3  7 and 23  32  5.

(4 marks)

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2. Refer to the number line below.

P 0 Q +5 R

(a) Write down the directed numbers represented by P, Q and R.

(b) Find the result of each of the following.
(i) P + Q
(ii) R  P
(5 marks)

3. The average temperature on Neptune’s surface is 201C. The average

temperature on Mars’ surface is 121C higher than that on Neptune’s surface.
Find the average temperature on Mars’ surface.
(3 marks)

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4. Simplify
(a) 9y2 + 2y  y,
(b) 5z  4z  3.
(4 marks)

5. Refer to the solids A, B and C as shown.

A B C

(a) Which one is a tetrahedron?

(b) Which one has the greatest number of edges?
How many edges does it have?
(3 marks)

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6. Find the value of N in each of the following.

(a) N = when f = 5.

(b) p = 2N + 103 when p = 803.

(6 marks)

7. Calculate the following expressions.

(a)

(b)

(5 marks)

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8. In a florist’s, there are 80 potted plants in the morning. If 12 potted plants are left
in the evening, what is the percentage change in the number of potted plants?
(3 marks)

9. (a) By guessing, write down the 5th term of the sequence 1, 2.5, 4, 5.5, ….
Explain your answer.
(b) By guessing, write down the 6th term and the 7th term of the sequences
5, 10, 20, 40, …. Explain your answer.
(6 marks)

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10. Solve the following equations.

(a)

(b) 36 + 5s  9 = 2s
(6 marks)

11. In a bakery, 40% of the cakes are chocolate cakes.

(a) If there are 140 chocolate cakes in the bakery, find the total number of cakes
in the bakery.
(b) If 70% of the cakes are sold, find the number of cakes left.
(5 marks)

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12. A cube is placed horizontally as shown. It is cut vertically line A

along line A.

(a) Draw the cross section obtained.

(b) Kayden claims that the cross section obtained is a convex polygon. Do you
agree? Explain your answer.
(5 marks)

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Long Questions (55 marks)

Answer ALL questions and give your solutions in the spaces provided.

13. (a) Fig. I shows the 2-D representation of a cube. Referring to the sketch shown
in Fig. I, add 2 solid lines and 2 dotted lines in Fig. II so as to form a 2-D
representation of a prism with a pentagon as its base.

Fig. I Fig. II

(b) Sketch the 2-D representation of Fig. II on the given isometric grid paper.

(7 marks)

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14. In a lucky draw, each customer can draw 5 balls from a bag randomly.
The points represented by the balls of different colours are shown below:
Colour of the ball Red Blue Yellow
Points +5 4 +3
(a) Emily draws 1 red ball, 2 blue balls and 2 yellow balls. How many points
does she get?
(b) A gift is given to the customer who gets 10 points or above. Peter draws
3 red balls and 2 blue balls. Can he get the gift? Explain your answer.
(6 marks)

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15. A hawker has 500 apples. of them are rotten and the remaining
apples are
good. For the good apples, of them are red apples and the
rest of the good
apples are green apples.
(a) Find the number of good apples.
(b) Find the number of good green apples.
(c) The prices of each red apple and green apple are $5.6 and $4.7 respectively.
The hawker claims that if all the good apples are sold, he can get more than
$2 500. Do you agree? Explain your answer.
(10 marks)

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16. The age of Alton is 3 times the age of Kate. The age of Jessie is 4 more than
2 times the age of Kate.
(a) If the sum of their ages is 76, find the age of Kate.
(b) Who is the oldest? Explain your answer.
(c) N years later, the age of Kate is half of the age of Alton, find the value of N.
(11 marks)

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17. Miss Li wants to paint a flat. The total fee ($C) that she should pay can be
calculated by the formula C = 1 000 + 460mn, where m and n are the numbers of
workers hired and working days respectively.
(a) The table below shows the plans offered by two companies to paint her flat:
Number of worker(s) Number of working days
Company X 1 14
Company Y 3 5
Which company should Miss Li choose in order to pay a lower fee? Explain
your answer.
(b) Company Z offers Miss Li another plans, where the total fee for each plan is
fixed at $12 040.
(i) If the number of workers hired is 6, find the number of working days.
(ii) If Miss Li wants to save 2 working days compared to (b)(i), does
company Z need to hire 2 more workers? Explain your answer.
(13 marks)

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18. Lucy bought a dictionary for $300 and n storybooks for $25 each. She sold the
dictionary at a loss of 20% and sold all the storybooks at a profit of 30%.
(a) Express the total cost and total selling price in terms of n.

(b) If Lucy made the overall profit of 13 %, find the value of n.

(8 marks)

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Multiple-choice Questions (90 marks)

Choose the best answer for each question.

1. Which of the following is not divisible by 8?

A. 9 000
B. 7 144
C. 5 320
D. 2 716

2. Which of the following is correct?

A. 20 = 23  5
B. 84 = 23  3  7
C. 216 = 23  32
D. 280 = 23  5  7

3. Which of the following sets of numbers has the largest H.C.F.?

A. 16, 32, 72
B. 5, 35, 45
C. 12, 60, 70
D. 93, 98, 99

4. Which of the following numbers lies between 1.4 and on a number

line?
A. 4.1
B. 0.4
C. +0.4
D. +1.4

5. Which of the following expressions gives a value different from

the others?
A. 3  (2) + 1
B. (3)  2  (1)
C. 3  (2)  (1)
D. (3)  (2 + 1)

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6. (3)  (3)(+3) + (3)(3) =

A. 21
B. 9
C. 3
D. 3

7. Which of the following algebraic expressions represents the word phase

“Subtract the square of a from 5”?
A. 5  a
B. a2  5
C. 5  a2
D. (5  a)2

8. For the algebraic expression 5v2  2vb + b  v + 5v  7, which of the following is

true?
A. The algebraic expression can be simplified as 5v2  vb + 5v  7.
B. The constant term is 7.
C. 5v2 and 5v are like terms.
D. There are 6 terms in the algebraic expression.

9. Simplify x  (2y  3x)  4y.

A. 2x  6y
B. 2x + 2y
C. 4x  6y
D. 4x + 2y

10. The following figures are formed by dots with a pattern.

Which of the following is the number of dots in the 8th figure?

A. 36
B. 35
C. 28
D. 21

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11. Find the 19th term of a sequence if its general term is 4(n  8).
A. 22
B. 33
C. 44
D. 55

12. The price of a cup of coffee increases from $32 to $36. What is the percentage
increase?
A. 16%
B. 12.5%
C. 11.1%
D. 4%

13. The marked price of a saxophone is $11 000. If it is sold at 8% off, find the
discount.
A. $880
B. $2 200
C. $8 800
D. $10 120

14. Refer to the polygons below.

2 2 1 1
2 2
2 2
2 2
2 2 1 1
2 2

P Q R S

Which of the following is true?

A. P is an equilateral convex polygon.
B. Q is an equilateral concave polygon.
C. R is an equiangular concave polygon.
D. S is a regular polygon.

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15. Refer to the figure below.

C

120
A B
D
Which of the following is true?
A. △ABC is a right-angled triangle.
B. △ACD is an acute-angled triangle.
C. △ABC is an obtuse-angled triangle.
D. △BCD is an obtuse-angled triangle.

16. Which of the following solids is not a polyhedron?

A. B.

C. D.

17. Which of the following is divisible by both 2 and 9?

A. 9 873
B. 7 532
C. 5 276
D. 4 104

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18. Which of the following expressions gives the result with the smallest value?
A. 1.3  [4.2  (3 + 0.6)]

B.

C.

D.

19. The floor guide of a shopping mall is shown below.

5/F Cinema

4/F Restaurant

3/F Book shop

2/F Supermarket

1/F

G/F

B1

B2 Car park
Rachel is originally at the car park. She goes up 5 floors, and then goes down
3 floors and finally goes up 4 floors. Where is she now?
A. Supermarket
B. Book shop
C. Restaurant
D. Cinema

20. Evaluate .

A.

B.

C.

D.

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21. Which of the following equations has x = 3 as its solution?

A. 2(x + 1) = 6
B. 2(x  1) = 6
C. 3(x + 1) = 12
D. 3(x  1) = 12

22. Solve the equation = 15.

A. n =

B. n = 12
C. n = 13

D. n =

23. Mr Au has n kg of rice originally. He then buys 20 kg of rice and packs all the
rice
evenly into 11 bags. Find the weight of rice in each bag.
A. (20 + n) kg

B. kg

C. kg

D. kg

24. Consider the formula . If A = 42, v = 4 and h = 7, find the

value of u.
A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8

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25. Which of the following solids has the same number of faces and vertices?
A. B.

C. D.

26. The following solids are placed horizontally as shown. Peter

wants to cut them along the given grey lines. Which one is cut
such that the cross section obtained is a uniform cross section?
A. B.

cut vertically cut vertically

C. D.

cut horizontally cut horizontally

27. Find the area of the right-angled isosceles triangle

in the figure.
A. 64 3s  1

B. 32
C. 16 s+5
D. 8

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28. If p is less than q by 37.5%, then q is more than p by

A. 60%.
B. 62.5%.
C. 160%.

D. 166 %.

29. A shop bought 25 music boxes. In a sale, each music box is sold for $108. If there
is a loss of $900 after all the music boxes are sold, what is the loss per cent?
A. 20%
B. 25%
C. 35%
D. 75%

30. On a farm, 20% of the sheep and 10% of the cows are in the barn today. If
288 sheep and 162 cows are outdoor today, what is the total number of sheep and
cows on the farm?
A. 480
B. 500
C. 540
D. 640

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