Paper 1 : (Multiple-Choice Questions) Total 40 marks

1. Express 5175 as a product of prime factors.

A. 152 × 23 B. 5 × 3 × 23 C. 115 × 32 × 5
D. 52 × 3 × 23 E. 52 × 32 × 23

2. Find the H.C.F. and L.C.M. of ab2c and abc3.

H.C.F. L.C.M.
A. a a2b3c4
B. abc ab2c3
C. abc a2b3c4
D. ab2c3 abc
E. a2b3c4 abc

3. The L.C.M. of x, 2x2 , 3x3 , 4x4 , 5x5 is

A. x B. 5x5 C. 60x5 D. 120x5 E. 120x15

4. Asher has 48 baseball cards and 64 football cards. He wants to put them into an album so
that each page has only baseball or football cards on it. What is the greatest number of
cards he can put on a page so that all the pages have the same number of cards?
A. 2 B. 4 C. 8 D. 16 E. 32

5. (53 – 33)2 – (43 – 23)2 is equal to …

A. 14 × 62 B. 21 × 77 C. 42 × 154 D. 56 × 200 E. 64 × 64

6. The average of 30, –12 and a third number is –2. What is the third number?
A. –3 B. 3 C. 24 D. –24 E. –12

7. Which of these pairs of numbers are both a distance of 4.7 away from 3.2 on the number line?
A. 1.5 and 7.9 B. –1.5 and 7.9 C. –1.5 and –7.9
D. 1.5 and –7.9 E. None of these

8. If 24x = 63 × 43 , then x =
A. 2 B. 12 C. 9 D. 6 E. 3

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9. Which of the following is true?
A. 1 is a prime number B. 0 is a natural numbers. C. 12 is a factor of 4
D. 24 is a multiple of 6 E. None of these

10. Which of the following(s) must be true?

I. All even numbers are divisible by 4.
II. The sum of two prime numbers is a prime number.
III. The product of two prime numbers is a natural number.
A. I only B. III only C. I and III only
D. II and III only E. None of these

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11. of a school’s population are teachers. There are 1326 students in the school. The total
20
number of teachers and students is
A. 15 600 B. 8840 C. 4680 D. 1560 E. 1460

5 9 13 11
12. Evaluate
√ + + +
8 5 8 5
.

2 5
A. B. C. 2 D. 4 E. 5
5 2

13. Mrs Seah is baking 12 cakes. She needs 2 ½ cups of flour for each of the first 9 cakes and
2 ¾ cups of flour for each of the remaining 3 cakes. How many cups of flour does Mrs
Seah need in all?
A. 25 ¼ B. 30 ¾ C. 31 ¾ D. 45 ¼ E. 60 ¼

14. Which of the following is NOT equal to 0?

A. 4 – 3 x 2 + 2 B. 4 – 3 – 2 : 2 C. (4 + 3) x (2 – 2)
D. (4 – 3) : (2 – 2) E. None of these

15. When the numbers 0.3, 22.5%, ¼ are arranged in descending order of magnitude, the
result is
A. 0.3, 22.5%, ¼ . B. 22.5%, ¼, 0.3. C. ¼ , 0.3, 22.5% .
D. 0.3 , ¼ , 22.5% E. ¼ , 22.5% , 0.3.

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16. John is 3d years old, and his grandfather is 4d times as old as him. Find the age of John’s
grandfather.
A. 7d B. 24d C. 7d2 D. 12d2 E. 14d

17. Solve the equation 6(s + 3) + 1 = - 71.

A. s = - 51 B. s = - 15 C. s = 51 D. s = 15 E. s = 25

w pq +r
18. Given that = . Find the value of w if p = 4, q = 3, r = 2 .
2 2 q−r
A. 12 B. 10 C. 7 D. 6 E. 3.5

5 2
19. Simplify : - .
3 (x− y ) 2( y−x)
1 11 7 11 11
A. B. C. D. E.
x− y 3 (x− y ) 3 (x− y ) 3 ( y−x ) x− y

1 1
20. Simplify : - .
ab−b2 2
a −ab
1 a−b 1
A. B. a – b C. D. E. a + b
ab ab ab(a−b)

21. The solution of 6 – x < 2x – 3 or 7 – 3x > 1 is

A. x < 2 B. x > 3 C. 2 < x < 3 D. x < 2 or x > 3 E. 0 < x

1 1 1
22. Given that = + . If u = 2 and v = 5, then f = …
2f 3u 4v
13 30 13 60 15
A. B. C. D. E.
30 13 60 13 13

23. Factorize the polynomial : 3xy + x – 3y – 1

A. (x – 1)(3y + 1) B. x (3y + 1) C. (x – 1)(3y - 1)
D. 3(x + 1)(y – 1) E. (3x – 1)(y + 1)

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24. Express the following sentence by using an inequality. Adding 8 to the result of x divided
by 3 is not greater than - 6.
x x x
A. +8≤-6 B. +8<-6 C. +8>-6
3 3 3
x x +8
D. +8≥-6 E. <-6
3 3

−2 3
25. if < , p > 0 and q > 0, which of the following inequalities shows the relation
p −q
between p and q?
A. p < - q B. p < q C. - p > q D. p > q E. None of these

Paper 2 : (Short Questions) Total 60 marks

1. Mrs Lim has 2 daughters, Helen and Melissa. The Highest common factor and lowest
common multiple of their ages are 3 and 168 respectively. If Helen is 3 years older than her
sister, find Helen’s age.

2. The freezing point of a liquid is – 7o C. The temperature difference between its freezing
point and boiling point is 25oC.
a. Find the boiling point of the liquid.
b. An additional of a small quantity of salt into the liquid decreased its freezing point by
0.8oC and increased its boiling point by 0.7 oC. Find the temperature difference between its
freezing point and boiling point of this liquid – salt mixture.

3. Mrs Chen filled the petrol tank of her car before setting off on a trip. She bought petrol
twice during the trip. At one stop, she bought 22.8 litres and at another, 24.9 litres. When
she returned home from her trip, she found that she needed 15.3 litres to fill the tank to its
40 - litre capacity.
a. How much petrol did she use on the trip?
b. If petrol costs $1.30 per litre, how much money did she spend on petrol for the trip?
c. If she travelled 15.7 km on l litre of petrol, what is the total distance travelled?

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4. a. Simplify the following algebraic expression : 2m + 3n – 3 – 5n + 3m
b. Solve the following equations.
3 n−2 1
b1. =
5 2
3 7
b2. f+3= f–5
8 8

5. If a number x is increased by 5, the result is less than 10.

a. Formulate an inequality to represent the above situation.
b. Write down three natural numbers that satisfy the inequality.

End of Question

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