CXC MODEL EXAM

Instruction (s): Answer all answers by circling the most suitable response to each item.

1. How many kilograms are there in 3t?

(A) 30 (B) 300 (C) 3000 (D) 30000
12. If Q = {a, b, c, d, e}how many subsets can be
2. 8% of 500 = obtained from the set Q
(A) $40 (B) $400 (C) $20 (D) $200 (A) 2 + 5
(B) 2 × 5
3. Which of the following letters has at least one line (C) 52
of symmetry? (D) 25
(A) A (B) B (C) F (D) G
Item 13 refers to the following Venn diagram.
4. If 1600 out of 8000 do not eat fish, then the
percentage that eat fish is
(A) 20 (B) 64 (C) 80 (D) 96

5. The base ten equivalent of 3015 is

(A) 4 (B) 31 (C) 76 (D) 81

6. If p * q means p2 – pq, then 5 * 2 is equal to

(A) 15 (B) –21 (C) 10 (D) 39

2 4
7. 7 5 
3 7 13. In the Venn diagram above
6 5 U = {students who play games}
(A) 12 (B) 13
10 21 H = {students who play hockey}
3 8 V = {Students who play volleyball}
(C) 12 (D) 13
5 21 The number of students in each set is indicated.
8. The point P(2, 7) is mapped onto P'(2, –7) by a How many students do not play volleyball?
transformation represented by the matrix M. The (A) 2
matrix M is (B) 3
1  1 1 0  (C) 5
(A)   (B)  
0 1
(D) 8
0 1 
 1 0    1 0 Item 14 refers to the following diagram.
(C)   (D)  
 0  1  0 1
9. 301 can be written as
(A) 3 × 102 + 1
(B) 3 × 103 + 1
(C) 3 × 102 + 1 × 10
(D) 3 × 102 + 1 × 10

10. If p  (3a  q), then 6a =

14. The two circles above represent sets P and Q. If P
(A) 2( p  3q) = {factors of 6} and Q = {factors of 4}, then the
(B) 2( p  q) shaded region represents
(A) { }
(C) p  3q
(B) {1, 2}
(D) p  q (C) {4, 6, 8, …}
(D) {12, 24, 36, …}
11. Which of the following sets is equivalent to
{a, b, c, d } 15. A woman buys a pair of shoes at a sale. She pays
(A) {4} $45, saving $15 on the normal price. The
(B) {a, b, c} percentage discount on the pair of shoes is
(C) {p, q, r, s} (A) 25
(D) {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} (B) 30

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 1 (A) 2x  8
(C) 33
3 (B) 2x  4
(D) 80 (C) 2x  4
(D) 2x  8
16. Tom bought a pen for $60 and sold it to gain 20%
on his cost price. How much money did he gain? 25. “When 7 is added to 3 times a certain number, the
(A) $12 (B) $40 (C) $72 (D) $80 result is 22”
The statement above may be represented by the
17. During a sale a shop marked 20% off the marked equation
price of clothing. What will a customer pay for a (A) 3n  7  22
dress with a marked price of $30? (B) 7n  22  3
(A) $10 (B) $20 (C) $24 (D) $30 (C) 3n  22  7
(D) 7n  3  22
18. A customer buys a table on hire purchase. He
makes a deposit of $306 and pays six monthly
instalments of $60 each. The total cost to the 26. John had x marbles and Max had twice as many.
customer is Max gives Tom 5 of his marbles. How many
(A) $306 (B) $366 (C) $666 (D) $966 marble does Max now have?
(A) x  5
19. A dinner in a hotel was advertised at $60 plus 18% (B) x  5
tax. The total bill for one dinner was (C) 2x  5
(A) $60.00 (B) $70.80 (D) 2x  5
(C) $78.00 (D) $81.60
27. Given that p * q means 2q  p , the value of 1 * 2
20. The simple interest on $400 at 5% per annum for 2
is
years is given by
(A) 0
400  5  2 (B) 2
(A) $
100 (C) 3
100  5  2 (D) 5
(B) $
400
28. The expression (2a)3 is the same as
400  2 (A) 6a
(C) $
5  100 (B) 8a
400  100 (C) 6a3
(D) $
25 (D) 8a3

21. If the simple interest on $800 for 3 years is $54, 29. If 5(2 x  1)  35 , then x =
what is the rate of interest per annum? (A) –4
4 1 1
(A) % (B) 2 % (B)
9 4 4
(C) 5% (D) 44% (C) 3
(D) 4
22. A plot of land is valued at $18 000. Land tax is
charged at the rate of $0.70 per $100 value. What 30. The sum of x and y is 18, and their difference is
is the total amount of tax paid for the land? 14which pair of equations describes the above
(A) $110.00 (B) $126.00 statement?
(C) $180.70 (D) $257.15 2( x  y )  18 2( xy)  18
(A) (B)
2( x  y )  4 2( x  y )  4
23. The expression ‘y is equal to the square of x’ can
be written as
( x  y )  18 ( x  y )  22
(A) y  x 2 (C) (D)
( x  y )  14 ( x  y )  14
(B) y 2  x
31. If 152 = 225 then the square root of 0.0225 is
(C) y  2 x (A) 0.015
(D) y  x (B) 0.15
(C) 1.5
(D) 15.0
24. The expression 2( x  4) is the same as
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 32. Which of the following diagrams illustrates a
function? 36.

From the graph above, the values of x when y = –1

are
(A) 1 and –1
(B) 2.2 and –2.2
(C) 2.5 and –2.5
(D) 2.8 and –2.8

Item 37 refers to the following diagram.

33. A function f is defined as f : x  3x  1 . The
value of f(–3) is

(A) –12 (B) –10 (C) –6 (D) 12

34. Given that f(x) = x2 – 3x + 1, then f(–1) =

(A) –3
(B) 3 37. The diagram above shows a graph. If a, b and c are
(C) 5 constants and a > b the equation of the graph above
(D) 6 could be
(A) y  ax2  c
35. Which of the following represents the equation of a
straight line? (B) y  c  ax2
4 (C) y  ax2  bx  c
(A) y 
x
(D) y  c  bx  ax2
(B) y  2 x  3
(C) y  x 2  4 38. The distance around the edge of a circular pond is
(D) y  x  2x  5
2 88 m. The radius, in metres, is
88 88
(A) 88π (B) 176 π (C) (D)
 2

Item 39 refers to the following diagram.

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 2 2
(D) r
5

43. How many millimetres are there in 1 metre

(A) 10
(B) 100
(C) 1000
39. The area in cm2 of the trapezium above is (D) 10000
(A) 21 (B) 27 (C) 33 (D) 54
44. If it took a speed-boat 9 hours to travel a distance
of 1080 km, what was its average speed in km/h?
(A) 12 km/h
Item 40 refers to the following diagram. (B) 102 km/h
(C) 120 km/h
(D) 1200 km/h

45. A man started a journey at 09:30 hrs and arrived at

his destination in the same time zone at 13:30 hrs
the same day. If his average speed was 30 km/h,
then the distance in km for the journey was
(A) 120
(B) 133
(C) 400
(D) 430
40. The figure above, consists of a triangle resting on a
square of side 5 cm. The height of the triangle is 4
Item 36 refers to the following diagram
cm. What is the total area of the figure?
(A) 35 cm2- (B) 45 cm2
2
(C) 50 cm (D) 100 cm2

41. The area of a rectangle is 53.6 cm2. If the length is

multiplied by 4 and the width is halved, the area
would then be
(A) 26.8 cm2
(B) 53.6 cm2
(C) 107.2 cm2
(D) 214.4 cm2 46. The pie chart above represents the mass of
ingredients in a cake. The total mass is 288g. What
is the combined mass, in grams, of fat and sugar?
(A) 93 (B) 132 (C) 165 (D) 195

47. The pie chart (drawn to scale) shows how a student

used 12 hours in studying English (E),
Mathematics (M), French (F) and Geography (G).

42. AOB is a sector of a circle such that angle AOB =

72° and OB is r units long. The area of AOB is
1 2
(A) r
5
2 The amount of time spent studying Mathematics is
(B) r 2
5 approximately
1 2 (A) 1 hr
(C) r (B) 2 hrs
5 (C) 3 hrs
(D) 4 hrs

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 Item 48 refers to the scores below.

10, 15, 4, 7, 8, 8, 1, 4

48. The median of the eight scores presented above is

(A) 4
(B) 7.25
(C) 7.5 53. From the diagram above, sin β is
(D) 8
3 3
(A) (B)
Item 49 refers to the following information. 5 4
4 5
(C) (D)
2 5 9 18 18 27 5 3

49. The mode of the numbers is

(A) 7 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 25

50. Of 120 students writing an exam, 100 are expected

to pass. The estimated probability of a student Item 54 refers to the following diagram
failing the exam is
1 1 1 5
(A) (B) (C) (D)
6 5 2 6

51. When three coins are tossed simultaneously the

possible outcomes are{HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT,
THH, THT, TTH, TTT}, where H represent a head
and T represents a tail. What is the probability of
obtaining at least two heads?
1
(A)
4
3 54. ABC is the image of ABC under an enlargement
(B) by a scale factor 2. the area in square units, of
8
ABC is
1 (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 12
(C)
2
2
(D)
3

55. In the figure above the line CD is the image of AB

after a
(A) Rotation through 90° centre O
(B) A reflection in the y–axis
52. In the figure above AB and CD are parallel. Which
of the following best describes the relationship  4
(C) A translation by the vector  
between x and y?   8
(A) x  y  2 x (D) An enlargement of scale factor –1
(B) x  y
(C) x  y  2 x
(D) x  y

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 59. How many triangles congruent to ADE would be
needed to cover the square ABCD entirely?
(A) 2
(B) 4
(C) 6
(D) 8

56. In the right angled triangle above, which

4
trigonometric ratio is equal to ?
8
(A) tan y
(B) cos x
(C) sin x 60. In the figure above, ABC is a triangle in which AD
(D) tan x = BD = CD.
57. A rectangle has rotational symmetry of order the angle ABC is
(A) 1 (A) 40°
(B) 2 (B) 50°
(C) 3 (C) 80°
(D) 4 (D) 90°
58. If the sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 4
right angles, then the polygon is a
(A) triangle
(B) hexagon
(C) pentagon
(D) quadrilateral

Item 59 refers to the following graph.

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