Math practices

Day 1

1) Solve the following equations

2x + 14 = 9x 3(5 + 2x) = 8(4x - 3) 6 + 4x2 = 31

2) Factorize

15 21p 2a + 6a2 + 4ab

3) Expand and simplify

4a 2(7 b)+ 2b 5(4 3a) (a + 2)(a + 5)

4) The population of a town is 246000 correct to the nearest hundred people

i) Write down the upper and lower bound of the population of this town.
ii) Write the upper bound of the population correct to 4 sig. fig. using the standard form a x 10b.

5) Convert 12.5 km into m, and convert 12.5 km2 into m2.

6) Work out the prime factorization of i) 210; ii) 504. Hence work out the HCF of these two
numbers.

7) If A : B = 3 : 4 and B : C = 2 : 3, then find A : C?

8) Simplify i) and ii)

9) Describe the set of point that is at a distance of exactly 5 units from the origin.

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Day 2

1) Consider the points A (-2, 3) and B (6, -9).

i) Find the gradient of AB
ii) Find the equation for AB
iii) Find the midpoint of AB

2) In the diagram below, AE // DC and angle DAB = 40o. ABD is an isosceles triangle with AB = DB.
Calculate angle ADB, ADC and DBE.
3) Two lighthouses are located at (1,1) and (5,5), respectively on the x-y plane. A boat sails along a
straight line such that its distances from each lighthouse are the same. Describe the locus of the boat.

4) Draw the following triangles on a suitable grid or graph paper, and use your drawing to......

i) Find the area of the triangle formed by the points A (0,1), B (0,5) and C(7,3).
ii) Find the area ofthe triangle formed by the points D (8,6), B (0,5) and C(7,3).

5) Complete the following sequences:

i) 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, ?

ii) 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, ?

6) i) List the chinese zodiac signs: rat, bull, tiger, ............. (research if necessary)

ii) It's given that year 2001 is the year of the snake. You just realized that you teacher is born in the year
of the monkey. Find out 2 possible ages of your teacher.

7) A bag contains 4 blue balls and 7 green balls.

i) A ball is drawn, it's put back into the bag, and another ball is drawn. What's the chance that i)
the first ball is green, ii) both balls are green?

ii) A ball is drawn, it's set aside, and another ball is drawn. What's the chance that i) the first ball is
green, ii) both balls are green?

8) A set of numbers are 3, 13, 4, 7, x, y, 9. The mode is 9 and the mean is 11. x is greater than y.

i) Find x and y.
ii) Find the median.

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Day 3

1) Simplify the following

a2 x a7 x a11 (b4)3 (b5)2 (a2b3)-2 x (a5b4)3

2) The lengths of the two shorter sides of a right-angled triangle is 3.2 and 1.1 cm. Both are
measured correct to the nearest 0.1 cm.

i) Find the lower bound of the length of the hypotenuse

ii) Find the lower bound of the area.

Give both answers to 2 decimal places.

3) True or false?

4) 400 dollars are divided into three portions of 11 : 8 : 6.

i) Calculate the amount in the smallest portion

ii) Express the smallest portion as a percentage of $400.

5) Find a digit P such that.....

i) 31P4P2 is divisible by 3
ii) 2672P2 is divisible by 9
iii) 1055P6 is divisible by 4
iv) 13352P is divisible by 12

6) This question is about polygons

i) The exterior angle of a regular polygon is 40o. Find the number of sides that this polygon has.
ii) The interior angle of a regular polygon is 150o. Find the number of sides that this polygon has.

7) Solve the following equation

8) My wallet contans 20 dollar and 50 dollar bills. There are a total of 15 bills which are worth 480
dollars. How many of each type of bill do I have?

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Day 4

1) Expand and simplify

x2(x3 + 2x) + x(4x4 2x3) + x3(2x 5) m (m (m (m 14)))

2) Consider the points P (-1, 5) and Q (7, 9)

i) Let M be the midpoint of PQ. Find the coordinate of M

ii) Let N be the midpoint of MQ. Find the coordinate of N
iii) Suggest what the ratio of PN : NQ is.

3) Convert the following numbers:

i) 3.25 into mixed fraction and into improper fraction

ii) 76% into decimal and into fraction (in lowest terms)
iii) into a percentage and into a decimal

4) A cyclist cycles at 15 m/s for 30 minutes, rest for 10 minutes, and cycles at v m/s for 20 minutes.
The cyclist cycles for 36000 meters overall.

i) Convert 15 m/s into meters per minute.

ii) Find how far the cyclist cycled for the last stage of his journey.
iii) Calculate the value of v.
iv) What is his average speed in m/s for the entire trip if the rest time is not included in calculation?
v) What is his average speed in m/s for the entire trip if the rest time is included in calculation?
vi) Accurately draw a distance-time graph on graph paper.

5) A triangle has side lengths 8, 15 and 17 cm, respectively.

i) Show that this is a right-angled triangle
ii) Another triangle features all 3 sides that are 120% as long as the original triangle. Find these
new side lengths.
iii) Calculate the area of the new triangle.
iv) Find the ratio bigger area : smaller area in the form of x : 1 where x is a decimal.

6) Let ABCD be a parallelogram and let BD be a diagonal

i) Explain why triangles ABD and CDB are congruent
ii) Explain why AB = DC.

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Day 5

1) i) The size of a base angle of an isosceles triangle is 37o. Find the size of the angle at the top.
ii) The size of a base angle of another isosceles triangle is 62.5% of the top angle. Find the sizes
of all 3 angles.

2) i) Find the size of the unknown angle. You may need to extend certain lines in the diagram.
ii) The figure is a concave quadrilateral. Explain what "concave" and "quadrilateral" each means.
3. Find the size of m, n and p:

4. What is the chance that a single dice roll gives you a number that is......
i) odd?
ii) 5 or greater

5. Two dice are rolled at the same time. What is the chance that......
i) Both dice show a 5?
ii) Both dice show the same number?
iii) The sum is 9?
iv) The sum is 4 or below?
v) The product is even?

6. Consider the straight line y = 4x 12.

i) State the meaning of the 4 and the -12.

ii) Find the x intercept of this line.
iii) The point P lies on the line above and has the same x and y coordinate. Find these coordinates.

7. A triangle has coordinates (1,1), (2,2) and (3,2). State the final positions of the vertices after......
i) A translation of 4 units up and 2 units left.
ii) A reflection across the x-axis
iii) A reflection across y = x.

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Day 6

1) Expand

i) ii) (a + 3)(b + 4)

2) Standard form, power of 10 quizzes

i) 2.57 x 104 = ........................ (write as an ordinary number)
ii) 3.484 x 10-3 = ....................... (write as an ordinary number)
iii) 137 000 000 = ......................... (write in standard form)
iv) 2.96 x 107 = 29600 x 10......
v) 0.03 / 3600 = 30 / ................
vi) 700 x 3 x 108 = 7 x 1013 x 3 x 10......

3) Deduce the next term and find a general relation for the following sequences:
i) 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, ......
ii) 100, 91, 82, 73, 64, ......
iii) 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, ......

4) Find the final price of an item of original price $120 if the price is increased by 20%
Find the original price of an item if the final price of $120 includes a 20% discount.

5) Solve the inequalities:

i) 3x + 4(5 2x) > 12 ii) x2 4 > 21

6) Deduce whether the following numbers are prime:

91 209 221 289 323

7) The following is a pie chart showing the time spent eating an orange. Calculate b, c and m, and
the total time taken.
Day 7

1) Unit conversions:

1 km = ...................... cm (write in standard form)

1 day = ................................. seconds
1 m3 = ................................. mm3 (use standard form)

2) Brain teasers. Find digits that satisfy the following equations. The digits should be different
within each subquestion.
i) AB x AB = CAB ii) ABCD x 4 = DCBA iii) AA2 = BBCC

3) True or false? If false, provide a counterexample

i) If a number is divisible by 9 then it is divisble by 3
ii) If a number is divisible by 3 and also by 4, then it is divisible by 12.
iii) If a number of divisible by 2 and also by 6, then it is divisible by 12
iv) A number is divisible by 8 if the last 2 digits form a number that is divisible by 8.

4) What quadrilaterals have......

i) Both rotational and reflection symmetry;
ii) Only rotational symmetry;
iii) Only reflection symmetry;
iv) No symmetry?

5) A card is drawn from a standard deck of playing cards

i) How many cards are in a standard deck?
ii) What's the chance that a face card is drawn?
iii) What's the chance that a red Ace is drawn
iv) A 2nd card is drawn after the 1st card is drawn and set aside. What is the chance that both cards
are Aces?

6) Fred has 20% more candies than Travis does. Together the two boys have 132 sweets. How
many sweets do they each have?

7) Solve......

24+3x = 64 x + y = 41 and x y = 13, simultaneously

Day 8

1) Let P = 3.68, Q = 1.841 and R = 0.034

i) Calculate P x (Q + R)
ii) Paul rounds P, Q and R each to 1 sig fig before repeating P x (Q + R). Find the new answer.
iii) Calculate the percentage error (3 sf) in the answer in (ii) compared to the true answer (i).

2) i) 3 consecutive integers have a sum of 78. Find these numbers.

ii) Alex has 5 more pencils than Ben, who has 6 more pencils than Cam. The three boys
have 47 pencils. How many pencils do they each have?

3) Simplify and write using positive indices only

i) ii)

4) It's given that 1 Canadian dollar = 7.20 HK dollars

i) I have 14000 HK dollars. How much Canadian dollars can I exchange for ? (answer to 2 dp)
ii) I finish my trip to Canada and have 494.33 Canadian dollars remaining. How many HK dollars can
I exchange for? (2 dp)

5) Consider the english alphabet and its english letters:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Which letters have i) both reflection and rotation symmetry? ii) only reflection symmetry? iii) only
rotation symmetry? iv) no symmetry?

6) i) What is the difference between an equation and an identity?

ii) Hence determine whether the following are identities or equations?

2(3x 5) + 7 = 6x 3 4x + 11 = 12x (x + y)2 = x2 + 2xy + y2

iii) It is given that (x + 4)(x + b) = x2 + 9x + c is an identity. Expand the left hand side, compare
terms, and deduce the value of b and then c.

7) The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers that satisfy the following rules:
The 1st term is 1
The 2nd term is also 1
The 3rd term, and all subsequent terms, are the sum of the previous 2 terms.
i) Find all the terms less than 100.
ii) Is 250 one of the terms?
iii) Find the first term of the sequence that goes over 1000.
Day 9

1) A pie is cut into 4 slice. The largest slice is twice size of the next largest, the next largest is twice
the size of the next largest, which is twice the size of the smallest slice. Find the angle size of each slice.

2) (give all answers to 2 dp) The body mass index of a person is given by......
BMI = mass / height2, where mass is in kg and height is in m.

i) My height is 166cm and my mass is 58 kg. Calculate my BMI.

ii) A BMI of 30 is often considered to be obese. Find out how tall a 60kg person needs to be in
order to be considered not obese. Give you answer in cm.

3) i) How long (in minutes) will it take me to run 3 km if my average running speed is 4 m/s?
ii) How long will it take my younger brother to finish 3km if his average speed is only 80% of my
average speed?

4) It's given that 3 chefs can prepare 20 sandwiches in 40 minutes.

i) How long will it take for 6 chefs to prepare 10 sandwiches?
ii) How many sandwiches can 9 chefs prepare in 1 hour?
iii) How many chefs will be needed to prepare 80 sandwiches in 25 minutes?

5) (Answer to 1 dp) The following distribution table for the handedness of a school of kids is given:
Leftie Rightie Ambidextrous
Boy 14 114 2
Girl 17 102 1

i) How many kids are there in the school?

ii) How many % of kids within the boys are lefties?
iii) How many % of kids within the entire school are lefties?
iv) If I randomly chose two students, what's the chance that none of them can write with their left
hands?
v) How many % of the righties are girls?
vi) What's the chance that a randomly selected student is a boy or a leftie?

6 Consider the following sequence of operation:

i) square the number
ii) add 5 to the number in i)
iii) multiple the number in ii) by 2

i) Find the final number if the original number is 7.

ii) Find the original number if the final number is 60.
iii) Explain why the final number can be 10 but never smaller than 10.
Day 10

1) A survey on the opinion of "occupying central" is carried out at a secondary school......

1/3 of students are for the "occupying central" movement.
20% of the students are against the "occupying central" movement.
210 students have no opinion.

i) How many students are in the school?

ii) Give one reason why this survey can be considered valid and informative.
iii) Give one reason why this survey can be considered invalid and not informative.

2) A colony of bacteria doubles its population every 12 minutes. At noon there are 7 bacteria in the
colony.

i) How many bacteria will be there after 1 hour?

ii) By listing out enough terms, find out how long it will take for the population to go beyond 1
million.

3) In the polygon below, AB // CD and BC //

DE. Calculate the values of x and y in the following
diagram.

4) Solve the following equations

i) 2x = 512 ii) 3y = 1/3

iii) 17z = 1 iv) 3x+1 = 93x
(Hint for iv: write 9 as 32 and use power rules)

5) An open rectangular box has base lengths 4, 6 and height 12 cm respectively.

i) Calculate its volume.

ii) Calculate its surface area.
iii) Find the longest rod that one can fit completely, lying horizontally within the base of the box.
iv) Find the longest rod that one can fit completely and diagonally within the body of the box.
iv) The box is half filled with water. Calculate the % of the inner surface that is in contact with
water.

6. i) State the formula for calculating the circumference of a circle and the area of a circle.
ii) A circle has a radius of r cm. The area is m cm2 and the circumference also has the same value
(m cm). Find the values r and m (2 dp for m).
Day 11

1) A food store shelf contains x cans of food. 2/5 of the cans are canned fish, 50% of the cans are
luncheon meat and 28 cans are pineapples.

i) How many cans of food are present?

ii) It was known that one can of each type of food is expired. Bad luck Brian selected two random
cans from the shelf. What is the chance that both cans contain expired food?

2) i) A whole number leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6. What is the smallest

possible number that satisfies the description above?
ii) The Halloween of one particular year falls on a Thursday. What day of the week will Christmas
day of the same year fall on?
iii) Find a pair of solution (x, y) to the equation 2x + 6y = 25, and explain why x and y can't both
be integers.

3) i) Johan has 4 times as much money as Pedro does. If Johan gives Pedro $39, then they will have
the same amount of money. Find how much each person had at the beginning
ii) I earned $x in 2009. The next two years my employer gave me a 10% increase in salary
compared to each previous year. I earned $363000 in 2011. Find out how much I earned in 2009.

4) A triangular prism has a equilateral triangle base of a side length 6cm.

i) Use Pythagoras to find the height of the triangle. Give you answer as a surd, and also to 2 dp.
ii) Find the area of the triangle. (2 dp)
iii) The volume of the prism is 433 cm3. Find the height of the prism (2 dp)
iv) Find the surface area of the prism (2 dp)

5) A road runs north-south and connects Vancouver (north) and Seattle (south), 150 km apart. I am
camping in a forest. I am at a bearing of south-10o-east from Vancouver and north-45o-east from Seattle.

i) Use a protractor and ruler to make an accurate drawing, showing my location, and the locations
of the two cities. Use a scale of 1 cm = 20km.
ii) Which city am I closer to?
iii) Use the diagram to estimate the shortest distance, in km that you have to walk in order to get
back onto the main road. (give answer to nearest integer)
iv) Your walking speed is 2 m/s. How many hours will it take for you to get back onto the road?

6) i) A pizza has a radius of 12 cm. Tom cuts out a 60o slice. Find the area of the slice of pizza that
he has cut out.
ii) A square-shaped grass plot has an area of 144 m3. A pole is erected on the midpoint of one of
the sides. A goat is tied to the pole with a 12-meter rope. Calculate the total area of the grass that the
goat can eat. (2 dp)
Day 12

1) i) Find the HCF and the LCM of 42, 180 and 288.
ii) Buses A, B and C depart a terminal every 10, 15 and 25 minutes, respectively. The routes run
from 7am to 10pm every day. How many times will 3 buses depart together during each day?

2) Solve for the unknown:

3) True or false?

i)

ii) If m < n and n < p then m < p

iii) If m = n4 and n = p3 then m = p7

iv) If m > n then m2 > n2

v) If m > n > p and m n > n p , then the mean of the 3 numbers is greater than n but smaller
than m.

4) Alvin has the following items in his wardrobe:

Cap Shirt Shorts Socks

Blue
White
Green
Khaki

i) How many ways are there for Alvin to dress up fully if there are no restrictions?
ii) How many ways are there for Alvin to dress up fully if he has to wear at least 1 khaki?
iii) How many ways are there for Alvin to dress up if he doesn't wear a cap and has to wear exactly
1 green item?
iv) How many ways are there for Alvin to dress up fully if he can't repeat any colors?

5) A "number machine" carries out the following operations, in the order described

Multiply by 3
Add 14
Divide by 5

i) Find the input number if the final answer is 8

ii) Describe the sequence of operations that you will apply on a final number in order to recover
the original number.
Day 13

1) i) Write down all possible pairs of positive whole numbers that multiply to give 72.
ii) A rectangle has an area of 72 cm2 and has a perimeter of 44 cm. Find its side lengths.

2) i) The diagram to the left shows a

square divided into 2 area by an arc. Find the ratio of
the area M : N in the form of x : 1. Give x to 2
decimal places.

ii) A window has a composite shape of

a semicircle above a square. Find the area of the
window.

3) Consider the right angle triangle ABC with AB = 6 and BC = 8

i) Show that AC = 10
ii) Find the area of triangle ABC.
iii) BM is perpendicular to AC. Use the answer in (ii)
to help you find the length of BM.
iv) Calculate the sizes of angle A, angle ABM and
angle MBC.
v) Explain why triangle ABM is similar to triangle ACB
vi) State another triangle that is similar to triangle
ACB.
vii) The corresponding sides of similar triangles are
proportional. Find the lengths of AM and MC.

4. Consider the following equations

y=4 x=5 2x + 3y = 18 y = x2
y = 0.5x 12 x+y+4=0 3x + y + 7 = 0 y = -x

i) Which represents a vertical line?

ii) Which represents a horizontal line?
iii) Find the gradient and the y-intercept of 3x + y + 7 = 0.
iv) Which does not represent a straight line?
v) Which line has an x-intercept of 24?
vi) Which lines go through the origin?
vii) Find the intercept of the lines y = 4 and 2x + 3y = 18.
viii) Which 2 lines are parallel to each other?
ix) Find the area between the line 2x + 3y = 18, the x-axis and the y-axis
5. Aaron is training on free throws. He is off to a slow start, having made only 7 out of 15 shots,
and he needs to achieve a hit rate of 80% in order to be selected for his school team.
i) How many percent of his shot has Aaron missed so far?
ii) Aaron makes his next 5 shots. What is his shooting percentage after the 5 hits?
iii) Including his first 15 shots, what is the minimum number of shots that Aaron will need to take in
order to achieve a 80% hit rate?

6. The following is a survey on the number of seeds within 30 grapes:

Number 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 2 11 9 m 3 1

i) Find the value of m.

ii) Find the mean number of seeds within the grapes
iii) State the median, and the mode of the number of seeds within the grapes

Day 14

1) Simplify the following

i) ii) iii) iv)

2) i) Show that (x + y)(x y) = x2 y2.

ii) State the value of 500 x 500.
iii) Use the results above to state the value of 499 x 501, and 498 x 502

3) The diagonal of a square is 12 cm long. Find the area of the square.

4) Thomas keeps track of his combo statistics in the popular smartphone game "puzzle and
dragons":

i) Find the mode and the median number of combos.

ii) Find the range of the combos.
iii) What percentage of the time does Thomas achieve 10 or more combos?
5) Make x the subject:

i) 3x + 4y = 36 ii) y = 2(x2 + 4) + 5 iii) iv)

6) This question compares binary numbers and decimal (dernary) numbers.

i) State the place values of each digit within the number 62376.
ii) Complete the blanks: 62376 = 6 x 104 + 2 x 10... + 3 x 10... + ...............................................

Binary numbers only use the digit values 0 and 1. In binary number, the place values of each digit are
integer powers of 2, instead of integer powers of 10.

iii) Convert to decimal numbers:

Example: 101011(2) = 1 x 25 + 0 x 24 + 1 x 23 + 0 x 22 + 1 x 21 + 1 x 20 = .............

a) 1011(2) =
b) 11010(2) =
c) 10011000(2) =

iv) By considering 44 as a sum of integer powers of 2, convert 44 into a binary number

7) i) A cellphone battery can last for another 2 hours 8 minutes when the display reads "16%
battery remaining". How long can a full battery run for? Give your answers in the form "x hours y
minutes".
ii) A teaching, planning her teaching schedule, is going to divide the months of September,
October and November into 7 periods, each containing an equal number of days. (a) How many days
does each period contain? (b) The teacher plans to start teaching trigonometry at the beginning of the
6th period. On what day will she start teaching trigonometry?

Day 15

1) The general term of a sequence A satisfies An = 7n 11.

i) Find the first and the 5th term.
ii) Find n such that An = 66.
The general term for another sequence B satisfies Bn = n2 + 8n + 33.
iii) Explain whether n2 and (n)2 represent the same thing?
iv) Find the first 6 terms.
v) Suggest a maximum value for this sequence.
vi) Find n such that Bn first becomes negative.

2) I sleep at 11:25 pm one day and wake up at 7:20 on the next day. How many minutes have I
slept for?

3) Solve the simultaneous equations 2x +3y = 30 and 3x + 2y = 35.

4) Find the size of the interior angles of a regular star shape.

5) Weighted averages

i) My mid-term Chinese test score was 72% and my final exam score was 88%. Both assignments
are worth the same in determining my report card score. What should be the final grade showing on my
report card?
ii) My mid-term English test score was also 72% and my final exam score was also 88%. For English
though, the final exam is worth 75% of the final grade while the mid-term test is only worth 25%. What
should be the final grade showing on my report card?
iii) High quality coffee beans and low quality coffee beans are sold for $47 and $29 per kg,
respectively. A shop produces a mixed brand contain high-quality and low-quality coffee in a 60% to 40%
ratio. What should be the selling price of this mix?

6) A friend of you offers you the following game and money payout scheme:

You pay $10 to roll a dice

a) You lose the $10 if you roll a 1, 2 or 3
b) You will get back $12 (net gain = 2) if you roll a 4 or 5
c) You will get back $40 (net gain = 30) if you roll a 6

i) What is the chance of outcomes (a), (b) and (c) respectively?

ii) Decide whether it would be wise for you to play this game?

7) A couple is planning a wedding banquet. Two banquet halls each charge as follows:
Hall C: $500 per guest
Hall D: A rent of $20000 up to 50 guests. Every subsequent guest is charged $1000.

i) Draw, on the same plot area, 2 graphs of cost vs number of guests.

ii) Use your graphs to decide what is the range of party size (i.e. number of guests) that results in
Hall D being a cheaper rent?

8) Find the perimeter and the area of a semicircle with radius 8 cm.