SEA Practice Test 1 - Mathematics (75 minutes)

SEA Practice Test 1

MATHEMATICS
Based on the Revised SEA Framework 2021-2023

School:
____________________________________________________
Student’s Name:
___________________________________________________
Date:
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INSTRUCTIONS

This test is divided into THREE sections with a total of 40 questions.

SECTTION 1 has 20 questions (nos. 1-20), Section 2 has 16 questions (nos. 21-36)
and SECTION 3 has 4 questions. (nos. 37-40).

You have 75 minutes to answer ALL questions. Read each question carefully and
show all working in the column provided. Marks will be given for correct steps
taken.

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

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Section 1
1. Write in Words: 54301

Answer: ________________________________________________________________(1 mark)

2. Use the following digits to make the smallest number.

8 3 1 6

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

3. Rearrange the following numbers in ascending order.

0.54 1.5 0.05 0.50

Answer: ______ _______ _______ ______ (1 mark)

4. Dylan saved $340. He gets an additional 25% from his mother which he saves. How
much money does Dylan have now?

Answer: _________________________________________________ (1 mark)

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5. Express 36% as a decimal fraction.

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

6. Complete the statement below to represent the decimal 8.36.

(8 x 1) + (3 x ⅒) + ( )

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

7. What is the difference between 3107 and 1752?

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

8. There are 20 dozen eggs to be shared equally among 4 bakers. How many dozen eggs
will each baker get?

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

9. 40% of a number is 20. What is the number?

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

10. In 2012, Grace was 10 years old. In what year would Grace celebrate her 16 th birthday?

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

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11. How long was session 2 below?

Sessions Begins Ends

1 8.45 p.m. 7.30 p.m.
2 9:30 a.m. 3:15 p.m

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

12. Shade 3/5 of the whole below.

(1 mark)

13. In a cash pan there are twenty 25₡coins pieces. How much money is that in dollars?

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

14. Calculate the perimeter of the rectangle.

5m

2m

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

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15. Rose is bought a box of candles for $450 at 20% discount. What was the original price
for the box of candles?

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

16. How many angles shown below are between 90° and 180°?

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

17. How many lines of symmetry does the figure below have?

Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

18. Complete the statement below.

3500 grams = _______ kilograms

Answer: ______________ kg (1 mark)

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19. Calculate:

0.5 + ¾
Answer: ______________ (1 mark)

20. Complete the table below. (1 mark)

Type of solid Type of faces

triangles

SECTION 2
21. Ben and Darcy park their cars in the same car park, with the rates advertised below. Ben
pays hourly and parks his car for 5 hours each day for 6 days a week, while Darcy pays
the daily rate and parks her car for the dame duration over the 6 days. Calculate the
difference between what Ben and Darcy pays.

Car Park Rates

$7.00 per hour or any part of the hour
$45 per day

Answer: ______________ (3 mark)

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22. A baker packed 6 muffins into 24 boxes each. If the baker had 5 remaining muffins, how
many muffins does she have in total?

Answer: ______________ (2 mark)

23. Which is the largest number below that can be divided exactly by 6 and 4?

24 48 52
Answer: ______________ (2 mark)

24. The prices at a fruit stall are displayed below.

Bananas Mangoes
$6.00 per pound $5 for 3

a) Alice spent $30 on bananas. How many bananas did she get?

Answer: ______________pounds (1 mark)

b) If she had purchased mangoes instead, how much would she have gotten?

Answer: ______________ (2 mark)

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25. Two children stood in a line at morning assembly. There are 5 children in front of the
first child and 12 children after the second child. If there are 40 students in line, how
many children are standing between these two children?

Answer: ______________ (3 mark)

26. Leo is packing away some items in his room. He must stack three items on top of each
other. Calculate the total weight of the items and state the order from the top to the
bottom which is the order he should pact the items so they are not damaged.

4.7 kg 1600 g

33 kg

Answer:
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

(3 mark)

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27. Marvin takes 30 minutes to get to work by taxi car from his home to Arima. Then 1½
hours by bus to Port of Spain. He then takes 10 minutes to walk to his office. Marvin left
home at 5 a.m. At what time did he get to his office?

Answer: ______________ (3 mark)

28. A school has a population of 560 students. 252 students are girls. What percentage of
the population is boys?

Answer: ______________ (2 mark)

29. Apples cost 3 for $12 and mangoes cost $2.50 each. Calculate the cost of 9 apples and 9
mangoes.

Answer: ______________ (2 mark)

30. A table top that measures 96cm by 168 cm has to be covered with square tiles of edge
24cm. how many tiles are needed to cover the table top?

Answer: ______________ (3 mark)

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31. Mother bought 3 bales of cloth to make curtains. She used ¼ of the cloth to make
curtains to cover the entrance doors, 5/8 to cover some windows in the living room, and
½ to cover the windows in the bedrooms. How much cloth did mother use?

Answer: ______________ (3 mark)

32. Write two of the symbols <, > or = to complete the statement below.
6/ ________ ¾ ________12/16
7

a b (2 mark)

33. What is the total length of the two pieces of strings below?

Answer: ______________ (3 mark)

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34. In the circle below, how many pairs of perpendicular lines are there? Label the line
which is perpendicular to line PQ with the letters R and S.

Answer: ______________ (2 mark)

35. Insert the values of the missing digits below (?).

3970
+ 4?6
4406

Answer: ______________ (2 mark)

36. How many cubes with volume 200 cm3 can fit into the box below?

Answer: ______________ (2 mark)

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SECTION 3

37. A storage tank can hold 91 litres of water. It is filled at a rate of 800 ml every 2 minutes.
What fraction of the tank would be filled between the periods 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.?

Answer: ______________ (4 mark)

38. Joe is purchasing pencil cases and pens as Christmas gifts children in his village. The cost
of pencil cases was 5 for $40.00 and the cost of the pens was 4 for $15. What is the total
cost of 25 cases of pencils and 62 pens?

Answer: ______________ (4 mark)

39. The solid below is made up of square and isosceles triangular faces.

8 cm

a) Complete the table below based on the solid.

NAME OF SOLID NUMBER OF NUMBER OF
EDGES VERTICES

b) How many edges are 8 cm long?

Answer: ______________ (4 mark)

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40. The block graph below represents the number of yogurt sold in a school cafeteria in a
particular week.

a) Calculate the average number of yogurt sold.

Answer: _____________ (3)

b) What is the most popular yogurt? Why do you think this is the most popular?

Answer: ______________ (4 mark)

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Answers:
1. fifty-four thousand, three hundred
and one.
2. 1368
3. O th
0.54
1.50←largest
17. D
0.05 ←smallest
0.50
Answer= 0.05, 0.50. 0.54, 1.50
4. 100 + 25 = 125% ← saved
340 x 125% = $ 425 18. Answer: 12
Answer = He saves $425 19. Answer = 3.5 kg
5. Answer= 0.36 20. Answer= 1¼
6. Answer: 6 x 1/100 21. Triangular-based pyramid
7. Answer= 1355 22. Ben pays= 5x6 = 30x$7=$210
8. Answer=20÷4= 5 dozens Darcy pays = 45x6=$270
9. 40% x n = 20 Difference = 270-210=$60 (Answer)
n = 20 /0.4 = 50 (Answer) 23. Amount of muffins packed =
10. 16-10 = 6 2012+6=2018 6x24=144
11. 5 hrs 45 mins Total amount of muffins before
packing=144+5 = 149 muffins
(Answer)
24. Answer=48
25. 30/6= 5 pounds of bananas (a-
Answer)
12. 30/5= 6 groups of 3 = 6x3=18
13. Answer= $5.00 mangoes (b- Answer)
14. Answer=14 metres 26. Answer=There are 23 children
15. Original price is 100% between them.
100%= 450/80 x 100=562.50 27. 1000g= 1kg
Answer= $562.50 4700+1600+33000=39300 g
16. Answer: 2 angles (B,C) or39.3kg

The teddy bear is the lightest so that should

be on top of the book and the suitcase
should be on the bottom because it is the
heaviest.

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28. 5:00+30=5:30+1:30=7:00+10=7:10 36. 3970+436=4406

Answer: arrives at work at 7:10 a.m. Answer: ? =3
29. Boys=560-252 =308 37. Volume of box=800x10=8000cm3
Percent= 308/560=0.55*100=55% Amount of cubes to fit=
Answer= 55% is boys 8000÷200= 40 cubes (Answer)
30. 9 apples=12x3=$36 38. Between 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. is 3 hrs
9 mangoes=2.5x9=$22.50 3 hrs= 180 min
Total=36+22.5=$58.50 (Answer) Amount of interval to fill=180÷2=90
31. Area of 90 intervals will get = 90x800=72000
countertop=96x168=16128cm2 ml= 72 l
Area of tile=24x24=576cm2 Fraction = 72/91
Amount of tiles=16128/576=28 39. 25 cases cost=5x40=$200
Answer= 28 tiles 62 pens cost=15x15.5=$232.50
32. ¼+5/8+½=1 3/8 bales of cloth Total cost = 200+232.50=$432.50
(answer) Answer=$432.50
33. 6/7>3/4=12/16 40. a) The solid is a square-based
34. 520+360=880cm or 8.8m (Answer) pyramid that has 8 edges and 5
vertices.

b) 4 edges that is 8 cm long

41. Total = 40+60+20+50=170

35. Average =170÷4= 42.5
Answer: 2 pairs of perpendicular lines a) Answer = 43 yogurts
b) The most popular yogurt is the
(Perpendicular lines form when two strawberry yogurt. Perhaps this
lines meet each other at the right is the variety that is most
angle.) available for sale.

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