01) Kulani planted ornamental flowers in her garden.

She planted roses in ½ of the garden,

Anthurium in 1/3 of the remaining and Boganwila in the rest part. She planted Boganwila in 4
perches.

1. What fraction of the whole garden was used to plant roses?

2. What fraction of the whole garden was remaining after used to plant Anthurium?

3. What fraction of the whole garden was used to plant Boganwila?

4. Find the amount of the garden used to plant roses

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02) A company produces laptops. If 4/7 of the laptops are sold domestically and 7/8 of the
remaining are exported,

1. What fraction of the total laptops are neither sold domestically nor exported?

2. If the company produces 560 laptops in total, how many laptops are sold
domestically?

3. What fraction of the total laptops are exported?

4. If the company wants to keep 10 laptops in stock for future orders, how many
laptops will be left after setting aside these for stock?

5. If the company decides to sell the remaining laptops at a clearance sale and sells 2/5
of the remaining laptops, how many laptops are sold in the clearance sale?

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03) A triangle and a semicircle is cut and removed from a rectangular metal sheet ABCD

1. Find the perimeter of the unshaded region to the nearest 1 decimal place.

2. Find the area of the shaded region

3. If a parallelogram with the same area as the unshaded region is made on top of AB
where AB is the base of the parallelogram, find the height of the parallelogram.

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04) A specimen trophy is shown in the figure ABCDEFG and it consists of two sectors with center
O and a rectangle part as shown in the figure.

1. What is the magnitude of angle COD?

2. If the radius of arc AB is 10.5cm, find the arc length AB.

3. Find the radius of arc length CD

4. Find the area of the total figure

5. Find the perimeter of the total figure

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05) (i) There are 8 cards which are equal in size and shape are put in a bag. They are numbered
from 1 to 8. Randomly a card is taken out and noted the number without replacing another card
is taken out and noted its number

1. Write down the sample spaces in the two occasions in a grid

2. Find the probability of addition of the two numbers being 9 or more than 9

3. Find the probability of getting a prime number in the two occasions

4. The number taken out first is in the tenth place, the number taken out in the second
occasion is in the ones/units place, what is the largest number that can be made?

(ii) The probability of shooting a man to the target is 2/3. The probability of shooting a
women to the target is 1/5.

1. Represent the sample space in a tree diagram

2. Find the probability of shooting both to the target

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06) (i) Four buttons of same shape and size are in a box. One of them is blue and three are red.
One button is randomly taken from the box and by putting it back another button is taken out

1. Show the relevant sample spaces in a grid

2. Find the probability of the buttons taken out being of two different colors.

3. Find the probability of the event in (ii) above, when the button taken first is not put
into the box and a button is taken again.

(ii) Two bags contain table tennis balls of the same shape and size. They are numbered as
follows;
First bag: 5 balls marked number five, 3 balls marked number two.
Second bag: 2 balls marked number five, 4 balls marked number two.

1. Draw a tree diagram to show the probability of drawing a ball randomly from the
first bag.

2. A ball randomly taken out from the first bag is put into the second bag. Later a ball is
taken out from the second bag as well. To indicate this, extend the tree diagram you have
drawn.

3. Find the probability of drawing a ball marked number 5 from the first bag and a ball
marked number 2 from the second bag.

4. Find the probability of drawing balls with the same number on both occasions.

5. Find the probability of getting at least one ball with number 2.

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07) The pie chart shows information about students' favorite sports from a sample of 300
students.

Football

150˚ Elle

60˚
Basket Ball
Cricket

1. If 100 students like to play cricket, find the angle connected with students who like
cricket

2. Find the angle related with Elle.

3. Find the number of students who like to play Football

4. Find the ratio between Cricket and Elle

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08) Following pie chart shows the way of selecting subjects in group III by 48 students in grade
10.

Information
Health
Technology
Science

Home
science
Agriculture

1. How many students studying information technology?

2. If 6 students study home science, find the angle at sector relevant to that

3. The ratio in between students who study agriculture students who study agriculture
and health science is 1:2. Find the students who study agriculture and health science,
separately.

4. If 4 students who study Information technology join to study health science, find the
new angle of sector related to students who study health science.

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09) The frequency distribution on the mathematics marks of students is given below.

Marks 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60 60 – 90 90 – 100
No. of students 5 7 8 18 4

1. Draw the histogram relevant to the given information.

2. Draw the frequency polygon on the histogram

10) The following table represents the total number of hours that 72 persons spent watching TV
during a 30 days month

No. of hours 0 - 15 15 - 30 30 - 45 45 - 60 60 - 90
No. of persons 6 8 16 18 24

1. Draw the histogram relevant to the given information.

2. Draw the frequency polygon on the histogram

3. How many persons watched TV for more than 30 hours during the month

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11) A frequency distribution based on the amount of money (In rupees) spent by the students in
a certain class, to buy food from the school canteen is given below.

1. Fill in the blanks of the table

2. Using the completed table, draw the cumulative frequency curve.

3. Using the cumulative frequency curve, find

a. First quartile
b. Second quartile
c. Third quartile
d. Inter quartile range

12) A frequency distribution of the marks awarded for an assignment is given below.

Class 15 - 20 20 - 25 25 - 30 30 - 35 35 - 40 40 - 45 45 – 50
Interval
Frequency 3 5 9 14 8 6 3

1. Draw the cumulative frequency curve.

2. Find the median, using the cumulative frequency curve.

3. When selecting the 25% of this group who scored the highest marks, what is the
minimum score that should be obtained by a student to be selected?

4. Find the percentage of students who scored less than 25 marks.

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13) (i) Assessed annual value of a house is Rs.180 000/= and the municipal council charges 4% of
it as annual rates. The owner rents out the house for monthly rental of Rs.12 000/= and he has
to spend 1.25% of monthly rental for maintenance of the house.

1. Find the total amount he receive as rental

2. Find the amount he pays as annual rates.

3. Find the total amount he spends for maintenance.

4. Find the amount remaining with him after a year.

(ii) A businessman paid Rs.56 000/= as income tax for year 2016. Find his annual income.
Initial Rs.500 000 - Tax free
Next Rs.500 000 - 4%
Next Rs.500 000 - 8%
Next Rs.500 000 - 12%

14) A local authority charges 8% as rates for the properties in its area. For a property which has
annual property value of Rs.25,000,

1. Find the amount of the annual rates.

2. Find the rates to be paid per quarter.

The next year the annual property value was increased by 20% and the rates
percentage was decreased to 7%.
3. What is the new annual property value?

4. Find the percentage by which the payable rates is increased due to the change made
by the local authority.

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15) A sum of Rs.360 000 is obtained from a financial institution at an annual simple interest rate
of 12% under the agreement of paying off the loan within a period of 3 years.

1. What is the total interest that should be paid in 3 years?

2. If the instalments are paid equally and monthly, find the monthly instalment with
the interest.

3. What is the monthly income received if the loan amount is deposited in another
institution at a monthly interest rate of 2%?

4. By the end of the loan period, will the income received from the deposit exceed the
loan amount? Give reasons for your answer

16) Naveen borrowed Rs.12000/= on simple interest. After 2 years he settled the loan by paying
Rs.19200/=.

1. Find the amount he paid as interest.

2. Find the interest paid per year.

3. Find the percentage of interest.

4. If Naveen could not settle it within 2 years and the loan period extended up to 5
years, find the total amount Naveen has to pay to settle the loan.

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17) (i)If a person takes a loan of Rs.20000 at a compound interest rate of 8% per year, calculate
the total amount required to repay the entire loan in 3 years.

(ii) Sunil deposits Rs.50000 in an account paying 10% annual interest compounded yearly.
After one year the bank interest rate increases to 12%. How much money will sunil receive
in total as interest at the end of 3 years?

18) A furniture set priced at Rs.120,000 for outright purchase can be bought by making a down
payment of Rs.40,000 and paying the rest in 16 equal monthly installments. If 12% annual
interest rate is charged on the loan, where the interest is calculated on the reducing loan
balance, find the amount of a monthly installments.

19) A down payment of Rs.5,000 and 14 monthly installments of Rs.1650 each should be paid to
purchase a color television set under reducing balance which can be bought on outright
purchase at Rs.26000. Find the rate of interest per annum.

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20) Mr. Amarasena bought 3000 shares in a certain company which pays annual dividends of
Rs.8 per share, at the market price of Rs.50 per share. After receiving dividends for a year, he
sold his shares when the market price had increased to Rs.70 per share.

1. Find the annual dividends income that Mr. Amarasena receives from this investment.

2. Find his capital gain.

3. Express his capital gain as a percentage of the amount invested.

21) A man invested Rs.50 000 and bought shares in company X which pays annual dividend of
Rs.8 per share at the market price of Rs.50 per share. After receiving annual dividend income,
he sold all his shares at Rs.60 per share.

1. Find the number of shares he bought in company X.

2. Find his total dividend income.

3. Find his capital gain.

4. Express his annual dividend income as a percentage of the amount invested.

22) A man invested Rs.50 000 to buy shares when the market price of a share of ‘Lanka’
company became Rs.10.
1. How many shares did he buy?
2. If an annual dividend of Rs.2 is paid for a share, find his annual income from
dividends.

When the market price of a share of ‘Lanka’ company became Rs.14 the man sells all his
shares.
3. Find his capital gain.
4. If he sold all his shares for the aforesaid market price after receiving the annual
dividend, indicate the sum of his dividend income and capital gain as a percentage of
the invested amount.
5. If an investor receives the above dividends and capital gain, what is the total income
he gets at the end of the year if Rs.100 000 is invested?

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25) A man on a flat land at point A, sees the top C of a tower BC located at a point B on the
same ground at an angle of elevation of 65o. He also sees the top of another tower 5m height
erected at a point D in between A and B at an angle of elevation of 30o. The horizontal distance
between D and B is 25 m, calculate the height of the tower BC using trigonometric ratios
assuming that the man and the two towers are on the same plane.

26) (i)A man standing on a horizontal ground 75 m away from the base of a communication
tower sees its top at an angle of elevation of 30o. Draw a scale diagram on the scale 1:1500 and
find the height of the tower.

(ii) A person standing on a flat ground, sees the top of a post situated 10m away at an angle
of elevation of 60o. (The height of the person is neglected.)
1. Sketch the above information in a diagram.
2. Find the height of the post.
3. Find the angle of elevation at which the person sees the top of the post if he walks
4m towards the post.

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27) The price of five oranges and seven apples is Rs 335. Five apples can be bought for the
amount spent for six oranges.

1. Develop a pair of simultaneous equations based on the above information

considering that the price of an orange is x and the price of an apple is y

2. By solving those two simultaneous equations, find the price of an orange and the
price of an apple separately.

3. Find the factors of 8a3 − 50 ab2

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29) Given below is the information regarding the tourists who came to a tourist hotel in year
2023.

No. of tourists 51 – 60 61 - 70 71 - 80 81 - 90 91 - 100 101 - 110 111 - 120

No. of days 2 4 8 10 12 8 6

1. What is the modal class?

2. What is the class interval that includes the median?
3. Taking the mid value of the modal class as the assumed mean, find the mean of the
number of tourists who visited the hotel in 2023.
4. If, for 50 days in 2022 the mean of the daily arrival of tourists was 80, show that the
arrival of tourists has increased in 2023 by 12.5% compared to 2022.

30)
1. In a circular compound, bricks are fixed in a way that the first tier has 7, second tier
has 11 and the next tier has 15. If fixing of a single brick costs Rs.10, show that the cost
for fixing bricks in 15 tiers exceeds Rs.5 000.
2. If the sixth and ninth term in the progression 12, 6, 3... are T6 and T9 respectively,
show that T6 = 8T9

31) (i) A tent made by a group of scouts is shown in the diagram. It has the shape of a right
circular cone. The diameter of the base is 4.2 m and its perpendicular height is 2.8 m.

1. Find the radius of the base of the tent.

2. This tent is fully covered with canvas. Find the

area of the canvas used for this in square meters.

(ii) A logo is cast by melting a solid metal hemisphere of radius A and a cone of the same
radius A and height 2A. Assuming no metal is lost, state with reasons, whether the volume
of the logo is equal to the volume of the sphere of radius A.

(iii) Find the value of the following expression using logarithm.

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32) An incomplete table is given below to draw the graph of the function y = (x+3)(1-x)

x -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2
y -5 0 …… 4 3 0 -5

1. Find the value of y when x = -2.

2. Draw the graph calibrating the axes as appropriate.

Using the graph,

3. Write the equation of the axis of symmetry of the graph.
4. Find the maximum value of the function.
5. Write the coordinates of the turning point of the function.
6. Find the roots of the equation y = 0 and then
write the quadratic function y = (x-a)(x-b), where y = 0 has roots 2 and -5

33) There are 65 members in a school sports club. Of them 40 are in the cricket (C) team, 12 are
in the football (F) team and 20 are in the basketball (B) team. All members in the football team
belong to the cricket team also. The number of members playing cricket and basketball but not
football is 11. The number of members belonging to all the three teams is 4.

1. Indicate the above information in a Venn diagram and complete it.

2. Write in set notation, the relationship between the sets C and F.

3. How many members are playing only basketball?

4. How many members do not belong to any of the above three teams?

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34) Using a straight edge with a cm/mm scale and a pair of compasses only,

1. Construct the line segment AB = 8 cm.

2. Mark point C on AB such that AC = 5 cm. Locate point D such that CD = 4 cm and
ACD = 60o.
3. Construct the circle which touches AB at C and passes through the point D.
4. Construct a tangent to the circle from A and name the point of contact as E.
5. Name an angle equal to BCD.

35) Using a straight edge with a cm/mm scale and a pair of compasses only,

1. Draw a circle of radius 3.5 cm. Name its centre O.

2. Mark a point on the circle and name it A. Construct the tangent that touches the
circle at point A.
3. Mark point B on the tangent, 6 cm away from point A. Construct another tangent to
the circle from point B. Name the point at which that tangent touches the circle as C.
4. Construct the circle passing through A, B, C and O. Measure and write its radius

36) PQ and QR are two chords of the circle with Centre O as shown in the figure. PO produced
bisects RQ at T. The tangent drawn to the circle at X is XY. The chord RQ has been produced to Z
and POX = 40°.

1. Write the magnitude of PQX with reasons.

2. Show that OTYX is a cyclic quadrilateral.
3. Find the magnitude of XYZ
4. Name a diameter of the circle passing through the points O, T, Y and X, and write the
theorem which is the reason for it.

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