UNIT 1

1) Match the equivalent value in the next column.

i) 105 A) 100 B)
ii) 104 C) 10 000 D)
iii) 102 C) 1000
iv) 103 D) 100 000

Answers:
i) D
ii) B
iii) A
iv) C

2) Work out and match your answer in the next column.

i) 550 ÷ 10 000 A) 94.2
ii) 0.942 × 100 B) 9.694
iii) 9694 ÷ 1000 E) 0.055
iv) 3.87 × 10 000 F) 38 700

Answers:
i) C
ii) A
iii) B
iv) D

3) When the prefix _____________ is used, it means multiply the number by 1,000.

A) Mega
B) Giga
C) Deci
D) Kilo

Answer: D

4) A joule (J) is a unit of energy. How many joules are in a megajoule (MJ)?

A) 1 000
B) 1 000 000
C) 10 000 000
D) 1 000 000 000

Answer: B

5) A watt (W) is a unit of energy. How many watts are in a gigawatt (GW)?
A) 1 000
B) 1 000 000
C) 1 000 000 000
D) 1 000 000 000 000

Answer: C

6) How many times bigger is millimetre than a nanometre?

A) 1 000
B) 1 000 000
C) 1 000 000 000
D) 1 000 000 000 000

Answer: B

7) Convert 5.4MJ to joules?

A) 5 400 000 000

B) 54 000 000
C) 5.49
D) 5 400 000

Answer: D

8) What is 15.6GW to W?

A) 15 600 000 000

B) 15 600 000
C) 15.66
D) 156 000 000 000

Answer: A

9) Which statement is true?

A) (46)3 = 49
B) 40 = 0
C) 46 × 43 = 418
46
D) 43 = 43

Answer: D

10) Evaluate -42 - 70

A) -16
B) -17
C) 16
D) 17

Answer: B

11) Round 7.85 (to 2 significant figures)

A) 8.1
B) 7.8
C) 7.9
D) None of the above

Answer: C

12) Round 0.00662 (to 1 significant figures)

A) 0
B) 0.01
C) 0.006
D) 0.007

Answer: D

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13) Harry wants to evaluate ( 4 )-3 . Help him work it out.

A) -64
1
B) 64
C) 64
1
D) − 64

Answer: C

14) Work out 2-2 + 3-2 × 23

A) 1365
B) 141
36
C) 136
41
D) 584

Answer: A
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15) Write 64 as a fraction raised to a power.

1
A) (2)3
5
B) (8)2
4
C) (32)2
2
D) (8)3

Answer: A

16
16) Write 625 as a fraction raised to a power.

2
A) (25)4
4
B) (25)4
2
C) (5)4
4
D) (25)3

Answer: C

17) Write 54 000 using standard form.

A) 5.4 × 104
B) 5.4 × 10−4
C) 54 × 104
D) 54 × 10−4

Answer: A

18) Convert 0.00697 to its standard form.

A) 6.97 × 103
B) 6.97 × 10−3
C) 69.7 × 10−3
D) 69.7 × 103

Answer: B
UNIT 2
1) Name this net of 3D solid

A) Tetrahedron
B) Square-based pyramid
C) Triangular prism
D) Cuboid

Answer: C

2) What is the name of this net

A) Tetrahedron
B) Square-based pyramid
C) Triangular prism
D) Cuboid

Answer: B

3) Mary wants to make several cans like the one below. She is going to cut them from
a sheet of metal that has an area of 3,768 in2. How many can she make? Use 3.14 for
π.

Answer: 24 cans

4) You are painting a room that is 18 ft long, 14 ft wide and 8 ft high. Find the area of
the four walls that you are going to paint.

Answer: 512 sq ft.

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5) A rectangular fish tank 60 centimeters by 15 centimeters by 34 centimeters is 3 full
of water. Find the volume of water needed to fill the tank completely.
Volume of water needed=Volume of empty space in the tank

A) 19 400cm3
B) 20 400cm3
C) 20 500cm3
D) 19 500cm3

Answer: B
6) What is the volume of the fish tank?

A) 24ft2
B) 24ft3
C) 20ft2
D) None of the above

Answer: B

7) The wheels on Aysha’s bicycle have a diameter of 26 inches. Work out the
circumference of one of the wheels. (Round off your answer to two decimal places)

Answer: 81.68 in

8) Your Geometry teacher rents a fast car for the weekend. Her friend, a Physics
teacher, uses a stopwatch to time how long it takes your teacher to make one complete
revolution about the track. If it takes your teacher 10.8 seconds to make a revolution
around the track, which as a diameter of 420ft, how fast is your teacher driving?
(Round off your answer to two decimal places)

Answer: 1319.47 ft

9) A circular mat has a diameter of 53 centimeters. Lily wants to sew a decorative

braid around the mat. How many centimeters of braid does she need? Give your
answer to the nearest hundredth of a centimeter. Use 3.14 as an approximation of π.

Answer: 166.42 cm

10) Bruce's grandmother loves to use fresh tomatoes in her homemade pasta sauce.
Bruce thought she might like to grow her own, so he bought her a planter box and a
tomato plant. The planter box is shaped like a rectangular prism. It is 12 1/2 inches
long, 10 inches wide, and has a volume of 1,875 cubic inches. What is the height of
the planter box?

Answer: 15 in

11) Saria is wrapping a gift for her mother. The gift box is in the shape of a
rectangular prism and is 5 centimeters high, 25 centimeters long, and 40 centimeters
wide. How much wrapping paper will you need to wrap the gift box?

Answer: 2650 cm2

12) The beam from a lighthouse reaches a distance of 8 kilometres and spreads to an
angle of 35°. Calculate the area covered by the beam from the lighthouse. Use 3.14 as
an approximation of π.

Answer: 19.54 km2

13) A sector has radius 3 cm. The angle at its centre is 120°. Find:
(a) the arc length
(b) the sector area.
Use 3.14 as an approximation of π.

Answers:
a) 6.28cm
b) 9.42cm2

14) Work out the area of a circle with a radius of 12cm. Use 3.14 as an approximation
of π.

Answer: 452.16cm2

15) Find the area of this circle.

A) 615.44 km
B) 625.44 km2
C) 605.44 km2
D) 615.44 km2

Answer: D

16) Calculate the volume and surface of the cylinder r = 4cm, h = 6cm.

Answers:
Surface area = 251.33 cm2
Volume = 301.59 cm3

17) The open tank has the shape of a cylinder with a diameter of d = 1m and a height
of h = 2m. How many m² of sheet metal is needed to make the tank? How many liters
of water will fit in this tank?
Answers:
Surface area = 7.07 m2
Volume = 1570.80 m3

18) What is the length of the hypotenuse in the figure?

A) 17.4 cm
B) 15.1 cm
C) 13.2 cm
D) 12.8 cm

Answer: D

19) The value of x correct to 2 decimal places is:

A) 9.59
B) 10.32
C) 12.16
D) 13.73

Answer: A

UNIT 3
1) Given the nth term n2 + 2n, generate the first 5 terms in the sequence.

Answer: 3,8,15,24,35

2) A sequence has nth term 4n – 5. Carl says “26 is a term in the sequence”. Is Carl
correct? Show your workings.

Answer: (Student solution) Yes

3) Match your answer in the next column. Find the nth term of the following
sequences:

i) 5, 8, 11, 14, ... A) 5n+4

ii) 9, 14, 19, 24, ... B) 0.5n+1
iii) 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, ... C) 25n+75
iv) 100, 125, 150, 175, ... D) 3n+2

Answers:
A) D
B) A
C) B
D) C

4) Given the first term a1 = 0.8, r = −5 and the common ratio of a geometric sequence
find the first five terms.

A) 0.8, 4, 20, -100, 500

B) 0.8, -4, -20, 100, 500
C) 0.8, −4, 20, −100, 500
D) 0.8, 4, 20, 100, -500

Answer: C

5) Find the next 3 terms of the geometric sequence given the common ratio is 6 and
the first term is 4.

A) 4, 24, 864
B) 4, 20, 24
C) 24, 48, 72
D) 24, 144, 864

Answer: D

6) Charles is keen to grow tomatoes in his backyard. He plants 8 seeds on day 1, 16

seeds on day 2, 32 seeds on day 3, and so on in a geometric sequence. How many
seeds will Charles plant on the 10th day?

A) 4086
B) 4096
C) 4056
D) 4066

Answer: B

7) Mr. Brix is conducting an experiment to observe the growth of bacteria. He records

the original count of the bacteria as 15. If the number increases by 2% every hour,
how many bacteria will be there after 3 hours?

A) 15.6
B) 15.3
C) 15.9
D) 16.2

Answer: C

8) Expand the expression (� − 6)(� + 4)

A) �2 − 2� − 24
B) �2 + 2� − 24
C) �2 − 2� + 24
D) �2 + 2� + 24

Answer: A

9) Work out (3� − 1)(� − 2)

A) 3x2 − 7x - 2
B) 3x2 + 7x + 2
C) 3x2 + 7x - 2
D) 3x2 − 7x + 2

Answer: D

10) Expand and simplify the linear expression (3� − 1)2

A) 9x2 − 6x − 1
B) 9x2 + 6x + 1
C) 9x2 − 6x + 1
D) 9x2 + 6x+ 1

Answer: C

11) Simplify (� + 5)2

A) x2 - 10x - 25
B) x2 + 10x+ 25
C) x2 + 10x - 25
D) x2 - 10x + 25

Answer: B

12) Harry, Ben, Adam, and Kari were trying to expand and simplify the quadratic
expression (x - 3) (-5 + x). Who got the correct answer?

A) Harry says the answer is x2 - 8x - 15

B) Ben says the answer is x2 + 8x + 15
C) Adam says the answer is x2 - 8x + 15
D) Kari says the answer is x2 - 8x2 + 15

Answer: C
13) John wants to find out the quadratic identities x2−2x−24=0, help him work it out.

A) (x−6) (x+4)=0
B) (x−6) (x-4)=0
C) (x+6) (x+4)=0
D) (x+6) (x+4)=0

Answer: A

14) Factorise the expression �2 − 7� + 10

A) (x + 5) (x − 2)
B) (x − 5) (x + 2)
C) (x − 5) (x − 2)
D) (x + 5) (x + 2)

Answer: C

15) Transform expanded expression 2x2 + 11x + 5 to factorised expression.

A) (2x - 1) (x - 5)
B) (2x + 1) (x - 5)
C) (2x - 1) (x + 5)
D) (2x + 1) (x + 5)

Answer: D

16) A rectangular garden has an area of 15 square feet. The length of the garden is
two feet more than the width. Find the length and width of the garden.

Answer: The width of the garden is 3 feet and the length is 5 feet.

17) Justine wants to put a deck in the corner of her backyard in the shape of a right
triangle, as shown below. The hypotenuse will be 17 feet long. The length of one side
will be 7 feet less than the length of the other side. Find the lengths of the sides of the
deck.
Answer: 8 is the length of the other side.