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Grade 10 Mathematics Questions and Answers by Topic (CXC Level)

A. Sets
1. List the elements in the set A = {x | x is an even number less than 10}.
Answer: A = {2, 4, 6, 8}

2. What is the cardinality of the set B = {3, 5, 7, 9, 11}?


Answer: 5

3. Give an example of a finite set and an infinite set.


Answer: Finite: {1, 2, 3}, Infinite: {x | x ∈ N}

4. Is the set of letters in the word 'LEVEL' equal to the set {'L', 'E', 'V'}?
Answer: Yes

5. List all subsets of the set {a, b}.


Answer: {}, {a}, {b}, {a, b}

6. If A = {1, 2, 3} and B = {2, 3, 4}, find A ∩ B.


Answer: {2, 3}

7. What is the complement of A = {1, 2} in U = {1, 2, 3, 4}?


Answer: {3, 4}

8. Use symbols to represent 'x is not an element of A'.


Answer: x ∉ A

9. If A = {1, 3, 5}, B = {2, 4, 6}, what is A ∪ B?


Answer: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}

10. Are the sets {a, b, c} and {c, b, a} equal? Why?


Answer: Yes, because they have the same elements.

B. Number Theory
1. Classify the number √16 as rational or irrational.
Answer: Rational, because √16 = 4

2. Evaluate: 4 + 6 × 2 - 3
Answer: 4 + 12 - 3 = 13

3. List the factors of 18.


Answer: 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18

4. Which of the following are prime: 2, 4, 7, 9?


Answer: 2 and 7
5. Find the HCF of 36 and 48.
Answer: 12

6. Write the prime factorization of 60.


Answer: 2² × 3 × 5

7. Find the LCM of 8 and 12.


Answer: 24

8. State the distributive law using a = 2, b = 3, c = 4.


Answer: 2 × (3 + 4) = 2×3 + 2×4 = 6 + 8 = 14

9. Calculate: 3.75 + 2.45 - 1.5


Answer: 4.7

10. Convert 1011 from base 2 to base 10.


Answer: 11

C. Measurement
1. What is the SI unit of length?
Answer: Meter

2. Convert 3.2 km to meters.


Answer: 3200 meters

3. Find the perimeter of a rectangle 8 m long and 3 m wide.


Answer: Perimeter = 2(8 + 3) = 22 m

4. Find the circumference of a circle with radius 7 cm (use π = 22/7).


Answer: Circumference = 2 × 22/7 × 7 = 44 cm

5. Find the area of a triangle with base 10 cm and height 5 cm.


Answer: Area = 1/2 × 10 × 5 = 25 cm²

6. Find the area of a circle with radius 5 cm (use π = 3.14).


Answer: Area = 3.14 × 5² = 78.5 cm²

7. Find the volume of a cuboid with dimensions 5 cm, 4 cm, and 3 cm.
Answer: Volume = 5 × 4 × 3 = 60 cm³

8. Convert 2.5 kg to grams.


Answer: 2500 g

9. What is 3:45 PM in 24-hour time?


Answer: 15:45

10. Convert 135 minutes to hours and minutes.


Answer: 2 hours 15 minutes
D. Algebra
1. Simplify: 4a - 3a + 2a
Answer: 3a

2. Multiply: 2x × 3x²
Answer: 6x³

3. If x = 2 and y = 3, evaluate x² + 2y.


Answer: 4 + 6 = 10

4. Use index laws to simplify: x³ × x⁴


Answer: x⁷

5. Simplify: x^(1/2) × x^(3/2)


Answer: x²

6. Expand: 2(x + 4)
Answer: 2x + 8

7. Find the product: (x + 2)(x - 3)


Answer: x² - x - 6

8. If a ◦ b = a + 2b, find 3 ◦ 4.
Answer: 3 + 2×4 = 11

9. Factorize: x² - 9
Answer: (x - 3)(x + 3)

10. Solve: 2x - 3 = 7
Answer: x = 5

E. Computation
1. Evaluate: 6 + 4 ÷ 2 - 1
Answer: 6 + 2 - 1 = 7

2. Simplify: 3/4 + 1/2


Answer: 3/4 + 2/4 = 5/4 = 1.25

3. Find: 5.6 ÷ 0.7


Answer: 8

4. Round 67.842 to 1 decimal place.


Answer: 67.8

5. Express 452.19 correct to 2 significant figures.


Answer: 450
6. Find 20% of 250.
Answer: 50

7. Convert 5/8 to a percentage.


Answer: 62.5%

8. Simplify the ratio 24:36.


Answer: 2:3

9. Find the average of 8, 10, 12, 14.


Answer: 11

10. Express 80% as a fraction in simplest form.


Answer: 4/5

F. Geometry
1. What type of angle is 85°?
Answer: Acute angle

2. Find the complement of 37°.


Answer: 53°

3. What is the sum of angles on a straight line?


Answer: 180°

4. How many sides does a hexagon have?


Answer: 6

5. What is the sum of interior angles of a pentagon?


Answer: 540°

6. Name three parts of a circle.


Answer: Radius, Diameter, Circumference

7. State the angle in a semicircle.


Answer: 90°

8. State the tangent property at a point on a circle.


Answer: A tangent is perpendicular to the radius.

9. What is an equilateral triangle?


Answer: A triangle with all sides and angles equal

10. Use Pythagoras Theorem to find the hypotenuse of a triangle with legs 6 cm and 8 cm.
Answer: √(6² + 8²) = √100 = 10 cm
G. Statistics and Probability
1. What type of graph best displays the number of students per class?
Answer: Bar graph

2. Find the mode of the data set: 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6.


Answer: 5

3. Find the median of the set: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11.


Answer: 7

4. Calculate the mean of 4, 8, 12.


Answer: 8

5. What is the range of the values: 15, 20, 25, 30?


Answer: 15

6. If a die is rolled, what is the probability of getting a 6?


Answer: 1/6

7. What is the probability of getting a head when flipping a fair coin?


Answer: 1/2

8. What is a frequency table?


Answer: A table showing how often each value occurs.

9. State one advantage of using a pie chart.


Answer: It shows parts of a whole clearly.

10. Interpret: If the mean score of a test is 60, what does that suggest?
Answer: It’s the average score of the group.

H. Consumer Arithmetic
1. A radio is bought for $150 and sold for $180. What is the profit?
Answer: $30

2. If a jacket costs $200 and is sold at $160, find the loss.


Answer: $40

3. Find the profit percentage: CP = $80, SP = $100.


Answer: 25%

4. Find the loss percentage: CP = $120, SP = $90.


Answer: 25%

5. A $300 item is sold at 10% discount. Find the selling price.


Answer: $270
6. If CP = $100 and profit = 15%, find the selling price.
Answer: $115

7. Calculate simple interest on $1000 for 2 years at 6% per annum.


Answer: $120

8. Compute VAT at 14% on an item costing $500.


Answer: $70

9. Calculate income tax on $20,000 at 20%.


Answer: $4,000

10. An item is bought on hire purchase: Deposit $100, 10 monthly payments of $40. Find
total cost.
Answer: $500

I. Relations, Functions and Graph


1. Plot the point (3, 2) on the Cartesian plane.
Answer: 3 units right, 2 units up from origin.

2. State the type of mapping: Each input maps to one output.


Answer: Function

3. Write the ordered pairs for x = 1 to 3 in y = 2x.


Answer: (1,2), (2,4), (3,6)

4. In a function, what is the image of 2 in y = 3x?


Answer: 6

5. What is the equation of a line with gradient 2 and y-intercept -1?


Answer: y = 2x - 1

6. Graph the inequality y > 2x - 3.


Answer: Shaded region above the line y = 2x - 3

7. Find the length between (0,0) and (6,8).


Answer: 10 units

8. Find the midpoint of the line joining (2, 3) and (6, 7).
Answer: (4, 5)

9. What is the gradient of a line through (1, 2) and (3, 6)?


Answer: (6-2)/(3-1) = 2

10. Find the equation of the line through (0, 1) with gradient 3.
Answer: y = 3x + 1
J. Trigonometry
1. What is the sine of 30°?
Answer: 0.5

2. What is the cosine of 60°?


Answer: 0.5

3. What is the tangent of 45°?


Answer: 1

4. Define the sine ratio in a right-angled triangle.


Answer: Opposite / Hypotenuse

5. Define the cosine ratio in a right-angled triangle.


Answer: Adjacent / Hypotenuse

6. Define the tangent ratio in a right-angled triangle.


Answer: Opposite / Adjacent

7. Identify the opposite side in a triangle with angle A and side BC opposite to it.
Answer: BC

8. State the sides involved in the SOHCAHTOA mnemonic.


Answer: Sine: Opp/Hyp, Cos: Adj/Hyp, Tan: Opp/Adj

9. In a right triangle, if opposite = 3 and hypotenuse = 5, find sinθ.


Answer: 3/5 = 0.6

10. If adjacent = 4 and hypotenuse = 5, find cosθ.


Answer: 4/5 = 0.8

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