Continuous

Assessment
NUMBERS, FACTORS AND MULTIPLES 1
1. Find all the factors of (a) 48 (b) 150.

2. Find the first 5 multiples of 14.

3. Express each of the following numbers as a product of their prime factors in

expanded form: (a) 28 (b) 96.

4. Express each of the following numbers as a product of their prime factors in index
form: (a) 84 (b) 150.

5. Find the H.C.F. of the following numbers: (a) 15 and 36 (b) 45, 75 and 105.

6. Write down all the multiples of 9 between 0 and 100.

7. Find the L.C.M. of the following numbers: (a) 18 and 24 (b) 36, 45 and 54.

8. Given that 720 = 24 × 32 × 5 and 960 = 26 × 3 × 5, find the H.C.F. and L.C.M. of 720
and 960.

9. Bilkiss has driving lessons every 6 days and swimming lessons every 4 days. If she
had a driving lesson and a swimming lesson both on the 8th March, when will be
the next date on which she will have both her driving lesson and her swimming
lesson again?

10. There are 42 boys and 48 girls who were chosen to participate in a quiz competition.
All the boys and girls should be divided in teams. Each team should contain the
same combination of boys and girls. If no boys and girls are to be left out,
(a) What is the greatest number of teams that can be formed to participate in the
quiz competition?
(b) How many boys and girls will be in each team?

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 2 INTEGERS

1. Copy and complete the number line below:

–4 –2 –1 1

2. Draw a number line to represent all the integers between –4 and 2.

3. Rewrite the following integers in ascending order:

–9, 15, 2, –4, 3, –15

4. Fill in each box with “<”, or “ >”

(a) –2 3 (b) 1 –4 (c) 0 –1 (d) –17 –1

5. Evaluate
(a) -2 + 3 (b) 6 – 8 (c) 4 + - 7
(d) 5 – -4 (e) - 6 – - 2 (f ) 10 – 14
(g) -9 + -3 (h) - 8 – - 3 (i) 12 + -15

6. Calculate
(a) 2 × -3 (b) -3 × -5 (c) 8 × 2
(d) -6 × - 4 (e) -3 × 7 (f ) -12 × - 8

7. Calculate
(a) 12 ÷ 3 (b) 15 ÷ - 5 (c) - 16 ÷ 8
(d) - 30 ÷ - 5 (e) - 40 ÷ 4 (f ) - 72 ÷ 9
(g) -120 ÷ 10 (h) 80 ÷ 5 (i) 70 ÷ - 7

8. Evaluate

(a) -38 + 38 (b) -25 + 16 (c) (-14) – (-19)

(d) (-7) + (-6) (e) (-10) × (-8) (f ) -224 + 13 – 129

(g) (-2) × 2 × (-7) (h) 0 × (-1) (i) -24 ÷ 6

9. Find the value of (a) √64 (b) √169

10. Calculate mentally

(a) 74 + 129 (b) 35 + 48 + 22 (c) 199 + 199 (d) 46 + 96
(e) 98 – 52 (f ) 436 – 113 (g) 86 – 29 (h) 99 – 24
(i) 9 × 52 (j) 99 × 20 (k) 22 × 25 (l) 104 × 12
(m) 57 ÷ 3 (n) 265 ÷ 5 (o) 182 ÷ 7 (p) 154 ÷ 14

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 ORDER OF OPERATIONS 3
1. Evaluate
(a) 10 + 5 – 3 (b) 3 × 7 – 9 (c) 6 + 5 × 4 ÷ 2
(d) 30 ÷ 5 × 6 ÷ 3 (e) (-6) × 2 ÷ 4 – 3 (f) 6 × 0 – 5 + 3

2. Evaluate
(a) 30 + 18 ÷ 3 – 4
(b) 52 × 4 – 3 × 10 + 7
(c) 11 + (6 – 2) × 9 ÷ 3
(d) 8 ÷ 2 + 5 × [(15 × 2) – 62]

3. Using the distributive property, fill in the blank spaces with the correct answer.

(a) 7 × (10 + 3) = ____ × ____ + ____ × ____ = ____

(b) 5 × 13 + 5 × 7 = ____ × ( ____ + ____ ) = ____

(c) 4 × (25 – 11) = ____ × ____ – ____ × ____ = ____

(d) 5 × 39 = ____ × ( ____ – ____ ) = ____

4. Chocobon Company manufactures 50 chocolate bars a week and sells them at Rs 20 each.
Before the chocolates could be sold at the end of a four-week month, workers found out
that 10 bars were damaged by insects and could not be sold. What is the total sale of
Chocobon Company for that particular month?
 4 FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS

1. Reduce the following to their lowest terms:

18 35 8 16
(a) (b) (c) 2 (d) 7
22 45 18 48
2. Convert the following improper fractions into mixed numbers:
15 111
(a) (b)
4 9

3. Convert the following mixed numbers into improper fractions:

2 3
(a) 3 (b) 5
9 4

4. What is the value of 7 in each of the following numbers:

(a) 5.709 (b) 6.0897 (c) 748.89 (d) 9 830. 837

5. Copy and complete the following equivalent fractions:

2 (.....) (.....) 3
(a) = (b) =
9 36 56 7
6. 30 ÷ 0.6 is same as

A. 3 ÷ 6 B. 30 ÷ 6 C. 300 ÷ 6 D. 3 000 ÷ 6

7. If 14 × 16 = 224, then 1.4 × 0.16 =

A. 0.224 B. 22.4 C. 2.24 D. 224

8. Evaluate:

(a) 2.427 + 0.51 (b) 4.508 – 1.8 (c) 0.09 ÷ 0.02 (d) 3.45 × 0.05

9. (a) Arrange the fractions 3 , 5 , 1 in ascending order.

5 8 3
(b) Compare the following numbers 4.050 and 4.005.

(c) Fill in the blanks with “ < ” or “ > ”

(i) 11 …… 19 (ii) 17 …… 13
15 45 18 15

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10. Evaluate the following giving your answer in its simplest form:

3 11 29 16 7 12 2
(a) 4 + 18
(b) 30 – 45 (c) 10 – 25 + 5

3 7 2 3 7 2 1 1
(d) 5 8 + 110 – 1 5 (e) × (f) 2 3 × 2 4 × 1 8
4 18

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11. Sania ate 3 of a pizza and Zia ate 5 of a pizza of the same size. Who ate more
pizza?

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12. For every 24 cookies that Alicia bakes, she needs of a cup of sugar. If she plans to
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bake 120 cookies, how many cups of sugar will she need?

13. The total length of three sticks is 18.27 m. If the lengths of the two sticks are 4.28 m,
and 7.46 m, calculate the length of the third stick.

14. In a 60 m race the time taken by Sam, Anil, John, Riad and Jeff were as follows: 9.03 s,
9.02 s, 8.91 s, 10.6 s and 9.2 s.

(a) (i) Write down the time taken by the five students in ascending order.
(ii) Who won the race?

(b) What is the difference between the time taken by the student who won the race
and the student who came last in the race?

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 5 ANGLES
1. Write down the complement of the following angles:

(a) 38⁰ (b) 87⁰

2. Write down the supplement of the following angles:

(a) 147⁰ (b) 123⁰

3. Calculate the angle x in each of the following cases

(a) (b) (c)

x + 29⁰

x 76⁰
x 65⁰ x
18⁰

(d) (e) (f)

2x x
x 125⁰
x
132⁰ 2x
96⁰
x

4. (iv)
(iii) (ii)

(i)

From the diagrams above, state the types of the following angles:

(i) (ii)

(iii) (iv)

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5. Calculate the unknown angles marked in each of the following cases.

(a) (b)
y
34⁰
e d 73⁰
a
c b
x

66⁰
(c) (d)
53⁰
z
48⁰ x
y
x
w
y
w z

(e)
b

c
a
47⁰ e
d

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 6 POLYGONS
1. Circle the correct answer.

(a) Which quadrilateral has only one pair of opposite sides parallel?

A. Rectangle B. Parallelogram C. Trapezium D. Rhombus

(b) Angle a is equal to

A. 700
B. 550
a
C. 350
D. 1800 1100

(c) The size of angle x in the diagram is

A. 1970
B. 1630 x
C. 2300 420
D. 630
250
1300
(d) The value of angle p in the diagram is

A. 2950
B. 1300
C. 1150
D. 250 650 p

2. Fill in the blanks.

(a) The sum of all the angles inside a triangle is equal to ……………
(b) The sum of all the angles of a quadrilateral is equal to …………..
(c) A polygon with three sides is called a ………………..
(d) An ………….. triangle has three equal angles.
(e) An …………….triangle has two equal angles.
(f ) Each angle of a rectangle is equal to …………
(g) A quadrilateral with diagonals of the same length is called a ………… or …………
(h) A …………. triangle has an angle of 900.
(i) The size of each angle of a regular quadrilateral is equal to…………… .

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3. ABC is a triangle with AC = BC.
(a) What is the special name given to this triangle?
(b) Find the size of angle a.

B
20⁰
A a

4. PQR is a triangle with angle PQR = 400.

The side QR is produced to the point S, such that angle PRS = 1000.
Find the angle x.
P

400 1000

Q R S
^ ^
5. ABCD is a trapezium where side AB and DC are parallel. If BAD = 1200 and BCD = 900,
find angles a and b.
A B
1200 b

a
D C

6. (a) Find angle a in triangle XYZ.

(b) What is the name given to triangle XYZ?

Y
X
a

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 7. In the diagram below, PQ is parallel to TR and PT is parallel to QS.
^
QSR = 550 and QS = QR. Find the size of angles p, q, r, s, t, and x.

P Q
p q
x

t s r
550
T S R

8. ABCD is a parallelogram with AB parallel to DC and AD

^ ^
parallel to BC. Given also that BDC = 18⁰, BAD = 130⁰, find the size of angles x and y.

B A
1300

y
x
180
C D

9. PQRS is a kite with PQ = PS and QR = SR. QS and PR are the diagonals.

Calculate angles a and b.

b
500
Q S
a

200

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 LENGTH, PERIMETER AND AREA 7
1. Convert the following to cm.
(a) 34 mm (b) 4.7 m

2. A man ran 5 times around a track which has a perimeter of 350 m. Calculate the distance
he ran in km.

3. The perimeter of a rectangular room is 26 m. The length of the room is 1 m longer than
its width. Calculate its length.

4. The perimeter of a rectangular note card is 0.14 m. It is 3 cm wide.

(a) How long is it?
(b) Find the area in m2 .

5. Find the area of the following figures:

(a) 20 cm

7 cm

14 cm

(b)

13 m

9m

(c)
6 cm
4 cm
2 cm

3 cm

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 6. A sales agent bought 3 hectares of land. He divided the land into 40 equal plots and sold
it to 40 clients at the cost of Rs 3 000 per square metre. How much does one plot cost?

7. The perimeter of a rectangle is 16 cm. If the length is thrice its width and the rectangle
is then divided equally into two rectangles, find the area of each rectangle.

8. Calculate the unshaded area.

10 cm

7 cm

16 cm

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 PERCENTAGE 8
1. Express the following percentages as
(a) fractions to their lowest terms (b) decimals

(i) 30 %

(ii) 55 %
1
(iii) %
2
3
(iv) 12 %
4
(v) 170 %

2. Copy and complete the table below.

Percentage Fractions Decimals

45 % 0.45

7
20

0.05

1
12 %
2

3. Michelle shared a bag of sweets as follows:

5% for her father, 1 for her mother, 1 for her brother and the rest was shared equally among
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5 guests. If one guest received 20 sweets, how many sweets were there in the bag?

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 9 RATIO AND PROPORTION

1. In Sally’s wardrobe, there are 12 dresses, 7 skirts and 9 blouses. Write down each of the
following ratios in its simplest form:
(a) dresses to blouses (b) skirts to dresses (c) skirts to blouses.

2. Simplify the following ratios:

(a) 32 : 28 5: 2
(b) (c) 1.8 : 8.1
6 3

3. Two students win a prize of Rs 6 000 for a science competition. The sum of money is shared
between the two students in the ratio 3: 5. Find the largest share.

4. Two entry tickets for an attraction park cost Rs 300.
(a) Find the cost of 15 entry tickets.
(b) How many tickets can be bought for Rs 3 600?

5. Alisha’s electricity bill for the month of April 2017 was as follows:

Consumption charges (Rs 5 per unit) Rs 650

Meter Rental Rs 10
TV license fee Rs 150
Last payment date: 10.05.17.

Any payment after the above date will have a penalty fee of Rs 25 per day.
(a) If Alisha pays her bill 3 days after the last payment date, calculate the total amount of
her bill.
(b) If Alisha’s electricity consumption for the month of May is 155 units, calculate the total
amount she has to pay before the last payment date.

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 INDICES 10
1. Circle the correct answer:

(a) 𝑥3 is equal to

A. 𝑥 × 𝑥 × 𝑥 B. 3 × 𝑥 C. 𝑥 × 𝑥 D. −𝑥 × 𝑥 × 𝑥

(b) 40 is equal to

1
A. 4 B. 1 C. D. −1
4

(c) 43 × 42 =

A. 45 B. 165 C. 46 D. 41

(d) 67 ÷ 62 =

A. 15 B. 63.5 C. 69 D. 65

(e) 𝑧3 × 𝑧9 =
𝑧2 × 𝑧 6

A. 𝑧12 B. 𝑧4 C. 𝑧6 D. 𝑧15

2. Find the value of

(a) 24 (b) 30 (c) 5𝑝0

3. Simplify the following
(a) 𝑎4 × 𝑎6 (b) 𝑦3 × 𝑦4 × 𝑦7 (c) 6𝑎4 × 3𝑎5

4. Simplify the following

𝑚4 × 𝑚 5
(a) 𝑎7 ÷ 𝑎6 (b) 24𝑝8 ÷ 6𝑝6 (c) y5 × (y2)4 (d)
𝑚2 × 𝑚

5. Simplify the following

(𝑞2)4 × (𝑞3)4 (𝑏2)4 × (𝑏5)4
(a) (𝑝3)4 (b) (𝑥3)4 × (𝑥5)4 (c) (d)
(𝑞3)3 (𝑏3)2 × (𝑏3)2

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 11 MONEY
1. Kiran buys 7 helium balloons at Rs 125 each for a birthday party. How much money
does Kiran spend in all?

2. Parina went to the cinema with her friends to watch “Beauty and the Beast”. Her mother
gave her Rs 500 for her expenses. Parina spent Rs 275 on the ticket, Rs 60 on a drink
and Rs 75 on popcorn. How much money was left?

3. Theresa bought a dress for her sister’s wedding. The dress was on sale at US $ 99 and
she had to pay an additional US $15 for shipping. Given that US $1 = Rs 35.25, how
much did Theresa pay in all for the dress, in Mauritian Rupees?

4. Tao saved the same amount of money each month during six months in order to buy
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a mobile phone. Unfortunately, at the end of the six months, he is still short of of
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the amount needed to buy the mobile phone. If the phone was priced at Rs 13 050
and his father agreed to pay the rest, find the amount of money that Tao saved each
month.

5. At Rosario Pizzeria, if you buy two regular pizzas at Rs 129 each, you get a 3rd regular
pizza free. At Italian Pizzeria, regular pizzas cost Rs 89 each if you buy 2 or more. Which
is the better buy if you want to buy 3 pizzas?

6. Alex went to the United States with his wife and two children.
(a) Given that the adult airfare was Rs 52 000 and a child’s airfare was Rs 36 000, find
the amount of money they spent on the airfares.
(b) Alex exchanged Rs 450 000 for all his expenses in the United States.
Given US $ 1 = Rs 30.00, how many dollars did Alex bring with him?
(c) Alex and his family visited different places. They spent US $13 000 in all. How much
money was left? Give your answer in dollars.
(d) On reaching Mauritius, they bought some articles in the duty free shop. The bill
was US $ 1 250. Find how much money Alex had left, in Mauritian Rupees, if the
exchange rate was US $ 1 = Rs 28.50?

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 TIME 12
1. Write down twenty-five minutes to nine in the evening in figures
(a) using the 12-hour clock,
(b) using the 24-hour clock.

2. (a) Convert 3.8 hours into minutes.
(b) Convert 15 000 seconds into hours and minutes.

3. Circle the correct answer.

(i) 3.10 p.m. on the 12-hour clock is written as …… on the 24-hour clock.

A. 3 10 B. 15.10 C. 15 10 D. 03 10

(ii) Ali took 35 minutes to complete a task. If he started at 13 45, at what time did he
finish?

A. 13 10 B. 48 45 C. 2.20 a.m. D. 2.20 p.m.

(iii) In a mathematical quiz contest, Jenny spent 2 minutes 30 seconds answering each
of the five questions asked. What was the total time taken for Jenny to answer all
the five questions?

A. 4 min 30 s B. 7 min 30 s C. 12 min 30 s D. 10 min 30 s

4. Ashwin left office at 15 45 and took 75 minutes to reach his friend’s place. At what
time did he arrive at his friend’s place? Give your answer using
(a) 12-hour clock (b) 24-hour clock.

5. Toronto is 6 hours behind GMT and Mauritius is 4 hours ahead of GMT. If the local
time in Mauritius is 13 35, what is the local time in Toronto?

[Link] local time in Dakar is 03 20 and it is 1 hour behind GMT. A plane left Dakar at this
time and travelled for 50 minutes to reach Cape Town which is 1 hour ahead of GMT.
Find (a) the GMT when the plane left Dakar,
(b) the time in Dakar when the plane reached Cape Town,
(c) the local time in Cape Town when the plane landed.

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 13 SPEED
1. The distance between Omega and Tortoise Bay is 144 km. Shane takes 3 hours to travel
between these two places. Find his speed.

2. A car travels at a speed of 110 km/h for 72 mins. Find the distance covered by the car.

3. Fabrice travels from A to B at an average speed of 80 km/h. It took him 1 hour and
30 minutes to complete his journey.
(a) Find the distance between A and B
(b) He then travels from B to C and altogether, that is from A to C, he travels 180 km
taking a total time of 2 hours and 30 minutes. What is his average speed from B to C?

4. Kate drives 65 km at a constant speed of 50 km/h and another 70 km at a constant

speed of 80 km/h. Find the total time taken to travel these distances.

5. Sandrine takes 12 minutes to go back home after school. Given that the school is 3.5 km
from her house, find her average speed.

6. Jerry travels at an average speed of 20 km/h. How far will he travel in 45 minutes?

7. Nishta and Vandana start travelling in the same direction at 8 km/h and 13 km/h
respectively. After 4 hours, Nishta doubles her speed and Vandana reduces her speed by
1 km/h. They reached the destination together. How long did the journey last?

8. Convert the following

(a) 60 km/h into m/s
(b) 0.6 m/s to km/h

(c) 10 4 km/h into m/s

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(d) 45 m/s to km/h

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 MASS 14
1. Convert the following:
(a) 300 kg to g
(b) 250 mg to g
(c) 2.6 g to mg
(d) 3700 kg to t

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2. Add 400 g to 3 kg , giving your answer in kg.
4

3. A cake of mass 1.5 kg, consists of 0.9 kg of flour, 0.4 kg of sugar and other ingredients.
Find the mass of other ingredients in grams.

4. A bag contains 4 mathematics books, 6 copybooks and 1 pencil case. The mass of a
mathematics book is 1.2 kg and the mass of a copybook is 350 g. The mass of a pencil
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case is of a kg. Find the total mass, in grams, of the items in the bag.
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5. A container has a mass of 250 g when empty. It can contain 12 eggs. When the
container is full of eggs, it has a mass of 3.25 kg. Find the mass of each egg if all the
eggs have the same mass.

6. Mr Avinash wants to buy concrete blocks to construct a wall around his house. The
mass of one concrete block is 6.5 kg and costs Rs 24.50 each.
Mr Salim’s lorry can carry a maximum weight of 3.9 t and he charges a transportation
fee of Rs 1 500.
Mr Brian, the helper, charges Rs 2 to embark one concrete block and Rs 3 to disembark
one concrete block.
Mr Avinash asked Mr Salim to bring a lorry full of concrete blocks and paid Mr Brian
for embarkation and disembarkation.
Calculate
(a) the number of concrete blocks that Mr Salim brought,
(b) the amount of money paid to Mr Brian to embark and disembark the blocks,
(c) the total amount of money Mr Avinash spent.

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 15 ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS &
ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS

1. Simplify
(a) 3a – 2a (b) 4c + 5c - 2c (c) 2m × 3
(d) 6x + 4x – 2x (e) 7t × 3t (f) 16g ÷ 2

2. Simplify
(a) 4m – 2m + 8m (b) 5x + 3(x – 4)
x 2x 5x
(c) + – (d) 6(2p – q) – 5(3p – 2q)
3 5 6

3. Given that a = 3, b = 5, c = –10 and d = –2, evaluate each expression

a
(a) abc (b) ad + bc (c) a2c (d) + d
b c

4. (a) Is 6x + 15 = 27 an equation or expression? Explain your answer.

(b) State the additive inverse of –10.
(c) State the multiplicative inverse of 1 .
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5. Solve (a) y + 10 = –14 (d) t – 5 = 15 (g) -3x = 15

m 3
(b) 2s = –10 (e) 3 – b = 2 (h) =
2 4
(c) 2 m = 40 (f) c + 3 = 1 (i) 4u = 1
5 2

6. Fill in the empty boxes to make the equation true.

24 × = 40 + 8

7. Solve x + 17 = 24
A. 41 B. 7 C. –7 D. –41

8. Solve x – 4 = –15
A. 19 B. –19 C. 11 D. –11

9. Solve –6x = 72
A. –12 B. 12 C. 78 D. 66

x
10. Solve – = –8
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A. 72 B. –72 C. 17 D. 1

11. Solve 3x – 19 = –31
A. 50 B. –4 C. 4 D. 150

12. Solve x + 4 = 1
3
A. 1 5 B. –1 C. – D. –15
5

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 PATTERNS AND SEQUENCES 16
1. Describe the following patterns and write down the next two terms.
(a) 2, 12, 22, 32, 42, 52, -------, -------- .
(b) –5, –10, –20, –40, -------, --------- .
1 2 1 2
(c) , , 1 , 2 , --------, ---------- .
3 3 3 3
(d) –0.25, 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, ---------- , ---------- .

2. Find the next two terms:

(a) 1, 3, 5, 7, ------, -------- (b) –6, –3, 0, ------, --------
(c) 1 , 1 , 3 , -------, --------- (d) 4.4, 2.2, 1.1, -------, ---------
4 2 4

3. Find the missing terms.

(a) 1, 2, 4, 8, -------, -----------, 64 (b) 243, 81, ----------, 9, ----------
(c) –625, 125, ---------, 5, ----------- (d) 2, 5, 10, -------, 26, -------, 50

4. Here is a sequence of diagrams made from lines and dots.

Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3

(a) Copy and complete the table below.

Diagram 1 2 3 4

Number of small squares 2 6 12

Number of dots 6 12 20

Number of lines 7 17 31

(b) How many small squares and how many dots will there be in the 8th diagram?

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 17 COORDINATES

1. (a) Plot the points P (–2, 5), Q (4, 5), and R (4, –3) on graph paper.
(b) Join the points P, Q and R with straight lines.
(c) Name the shape that is formed.

2. Write down the coordinates of the points A, B, and C on Fig. 1.

A (............. , .............)
B (............. , .............)
C (............. , .............)
y-axis
A
6
5
4
3
2
1

-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 x-axis
-1
-2
-3
B
-4
-5
C
-6

Fig. 1

3. Draw and label the lines

(a) x = 9 (b) y = –5

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4. Write down the coordinates of four points on the line x = 7.

5. Write down the coordinates of three points on the line y = –5.

6. Write down the equations of the red lines on the graph:

y-axis

6
5
4
3
2
1

-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 x-axis
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6

7. The line x = 4 meets the line y = 6 at the point M. Write down the coordinates of M.

8. Find the coordinates of the point of intersection of the line x = –1 and the x-axis.

9. Write down the equation of the line which is parallel to the y-axis and passes through the
point D (2, –5).

10. Write down the equations of the two straight lines which have N (–4, –2) as point of
intersection.

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 18 SYMMETRY
1. (a) Determine whether the dotted lines on each shape given below represent a line of
symmetry. Answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in the given box.

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(b) Given that the dotted lines are lines of symmetry, complete the given figures.

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

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2. (a) (i) One of the shapes given below is not symmetric. Identify it.
(ii) Draw the line(s) of symmetry of the other shapes.

(b) Consider the letters given below. Draw the line(s) of symmetry, if any.

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 3. (a) Complete the remaining half of each of the shapes, given that the dotted lines are lines
of symmetry.

(i) (ii)

(b) Complete the remaining part of the figure given that the dotted lines are lines of
symmetry.

(c) In the diagram, five small squares are shaded.

Shade one more small square so that the diagram has exactly one line of symmetry.

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GEOMETRICAL CONSTRUCTIONS 19
1. Construct the perpendicular bisector of line AB.

A B

2. Construct the perpendicular bisector of all the sides of the triangle.

3. Draw a line parallel to AB.

4. Draw a line parallel to PQ and passing through R.

R P

5. Measure angle ABC = 400 and draw the bisector of angle ABC.

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 20 REFLECTION
1. The point K (−3, 5) has been reflected in the y-axis. What are the coordinates of its image?

A. (3, −5) B. (−3, 0) C. (−3, −5) D. (3, 5)

2. What is the image of the point L (4, −1) when reflected in the x-axis?

A. (−1, 4) B. (−4, 1) C. (4, 1) D. (1, −4)

3. The point M (2, −3) has been mapped onto the point M1(2, 3) by a reflection. What is the
equation of the line of reflection?

A. x = 0 B. y = 0 C. x = 2 D. y = −3

4. Copy the graph given below which shows the rectangle ABCD and its image A1B1C1D1
under a reflection. Draw the mirror line and write down its equation.
y-axis

4
D C C1 D1
3
2
1

-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 x-axis
-1
-2
A B B1 A1
-3

y-axis
5. Make a copy of the following graph. l
Reflect the figure ABCD in the:
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(i) y-axis,
(ii) line y = –1, 6
(iii) line l. C
5
4
D
3 B
2
1

-1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 x-axis
-1 A
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 SETS 21
1. Fill in the blanks with the correct symbol ∈, ∉, ⊂ or ⊄.
(a) a _____ {e, m, a, i, l}
(b) {2, 4, 6} _____ {2, 3, 5, 7, 11}
(c) {VI, IX} _____ {I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X}
(d) {bit} _____ {b, i, t}
(e) {Friday} _____ {Days of the week}
(f ) Green _____ {Colours of the Mauritian flag}
(g) 9 _____ {Factors of 27}
(h) {1, 2, 3} _____ {Prime numbers}
(i) 108 _____ {Multiples of 12}
(j) 35 _____ {Triangular numbers}
(k) M _____ {g, a, m, e}
(l) { } _____ {1, 4, 9, 16}
(m) {C, A, T} _____ {t, a, c, o, s}
(n) { } _____ {c, u, p}
(o) {e, a, t} _____ {t, e, a}

2. Study the Venn diagram given below.

3 4
A 5 2 1 B
7 8
9

(a) List the elements of:

(i) A
(ii) B
(iii) A ⋂ B
(iv) A ⋃ B
(v) A'

(b) Find the value of

(i) n(A ⋂ B’)
(ii) n[(A ⋃ B)']
(iii) n(A ⋂ B’)’
(iv) n(A' ⋃ B)
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 3. = {s, c, e, n, o, g, r, a, p, h, y}
X = {g, r, a, p, h}
Y = {c, o, n, e, s}

(a) List the elements of:

(i) X ⋃ Y
(ii) X’

(b) Illustrate the given sets on a Venn diagram. Hence, write down the value of
(i) n(X ⋂ Y)
(ii) n(X ⋃ Y)
(iii) n(X’ ⋂ Y)

4. Given the two sets P and Q such that P ⊂ Q, shade on separate diagrams, the regions
representing
(a) P
(b) P’
(c) P’ ⋂ Q
(d) (P ⋃ Q)’

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 STATISTICS 22
1. The pictogram shows the number of boxes of chocolate sold during a week at Sweet Shop.

Number of of boxes of chocolate sold during a week at Sweet shop

Day No of of boxes of chocolate

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Key: represents 8 boxes of chocolate.

(a) How many boxes of chocolate were sold on Sunday?

(b) If 22 boxes of chocolate were sold on Friday, complete the pictogram.
(c) Draw a frequency table to represent the information given in the pictogram.

2. Pablo recorded the number of text messages that he received per day over a period of 3 weeks.
The results are shown below.

15 9 10 12 9 13 11
15 10 14 14 13 15 12
10 11 15 13 10 15 14

(a) Draw a frequency table to show Pablo's results.

(b) On a sheet of graph paper and using a scale of 1 cm to represent 1 day, illustrate the
results of the frequency table on a bar chart.
(c) What is the most frequent number of text messages?
(d) Express the number of days where he received 9 text messages as a percentage of the
number of days where he received 15 text messages.
(e) Use a pictogram with an appropriate key to illustrate the information of the frequency
table above.
(f) Which of the bar chart or pictogram was easier for you? Give your reasons.
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