EDU MATHEMATICS TEST SET 21

Question 1. A square was cut out of an A4 paper with the dimensions 210mm by 297mm. If there is
still 398.7cm 2 left, what is the length of the cut out square?
A: 15cm B: 20cm C: 10cm D: 18cm E: 21cm

Question 2. I bought a bike that was $X at a discount of 20%. When I sold the bike I made a 20%
profit from what I bought it for. Did I make a profit or a loss from the original price of the bike at the
store and by how much?
A: 5.5% profit B: 3.7% loss C: 6% loss D: 2% profit E: 4% loss

Use the following information to answer questions 3 and 4.

An agent is paid by commission on the total of the house sold. The first $250,000 of the house, the
agent would receive 8% commission and the remaining amount they would receive 3.5%
commission.

Question 3. If a house is sold at $635,000, what is the agent’s commission?

A: $74,352 B: $15,233 C: $26,367 D: $23,534 E: $33,475

Question 4. How much was the house sold for, if the agent receives $24,396 in commission?
A: $354,300 B: $541,400 C: $547,200 D: $375,600 E: $468,300

Question 5. Four siblings have a total mass of 96kg. The oldest is three times heavier than the third
sibling. The youngest is half the weight of the second oldest. If the oldest is 45kg, what is the mass
of the forth sibling?
A: 15kg B: 16kg C: 12kg D: 8kg E: 10kg

Question 6. If a shop owner sold 87 books for $25.75 each. How much profit did he received, if he
bought them for $12.25 each?
A: $3118.10 B: $1543.40 C: $1174.50 D: $2253.00 E: $2411.20

Question 7. For every 5 apples I picked, I received 13 oranges. If I received 351 oranges, how
many apples did I pick?
A: 114 B: 195 C: 123 D: 141 E: 135
Question 8. Layla sold a collector toy at a profit of 25% to Peter. Peter later sold that toy to John at
a loss of 15%. If John paid $595 for the toy, how much did Layla buy it for?
A: $560 B: $345 C: $258 D: $664 E: $625

Question 9. Two numbers have a sum of 4.6 and their product is 4.65. What are the two numbers?
A: 1.7 and 2.9 B: 1.9 and 2.7 C: 1.2 and 3.4 D: 1.5 and 3.1 E: 1.3 and 3.3

Question 10. Evaluate:

165
𝑥0 +
164.5
A: 5 B: 𝑥 + 4 C: 16𝑥 D: 4𝑥 E: 4√𝑥

Question 11. The set notation to describe the following diagram is:

A: 𝑥 > −6 B: 𝑥 < −6 C: 𝑥 ≥ −6 D: 𝑥 ≤ −6 E: None of these

Question 12. Which of the following is not a factor of 𝑥 3 + 2𝑥 2 − 𝑥 − 2?

A: (𝑥 + 2) B: (𝑥 − 2) C: (𝑥 − 1) D: (𝑥 + 1) E: None of these

Question 13. Simplify:

14𝑎 − 22𝑎2
4𝑎
14−11𝑎 7 7−11𝑎
A: 3.5 − 5𝑎 B: C: − 11𝑎 D: E: None of these
2 2 2

Question 14. There are 84 odd socks in my drawer. The basic colours are either red, black and
white. Their ratio are 3: 4: 7 respectively. How many black socks are there in the drawer?
A: 21 B: 16 C: 30 D: 24 E: 19
Question 15. Find the value of 𝑥, where c is the centre of the circle?
A: 25° B: 60°

C: 73° D: 47°

E: 38°

Question 16. Simplify:

4𝑥 2 − 9
2𝑥 2 − 5𝑥 + 3
𝑥+1 𝑥−3 2𝑥+3 2𝑥−3
A: B: C: D: E: None of these
3𝑥−2 𝑥 𝑥−1 𝑥+3

Question 17. The perimeter of the following shape is:

A: 2𝑥 2 − 15 B: 7𝑥 − 15

C: 2𝑥 2 + 7𝑥 − 15 D: 6𝑥 + 4

E: 12𝑥 + 8

Question 18. Find the area of the following rhombus:

A: 314cm2 B: 412cm2

C: 216cm 2 D: 531cm 2

E: 316cm2

Question 19. Evaluate:

2 𝑥
+
𝑥2 −1 𝑥−1
2+𝑥 𝑥 2 +𝑥+2 2𝑥 2 2(𝑥+1) 2𝑥+4
A: B: C: D: E:
𝑥 2 −1 𝑥 2 −1 (𝑥+1)(𝑥−1) 𝑥+1 𝑥 2 +𝑥+1

Question 20. Simplify:

3√2 × 5√3 + 2√24

A: 15√6 + 2√24 B: 12√6 C: 19√6 D: 13√4 E: 38

Question 21. Two angles, 𝑥 and 𝑦 are supplementary angles, where 𝑥 is equal to 3 times greater
than y + 12. What are the values of 𝑥 and 𝑦?
A: 23 and 104 B: 42 and 138 C: 39 and 141 D: 62 and 118 E: 45 and 147

Question 22. Evaluate:

1
𝑙𝑜𝑔10 ( )
1000
A: 0.3 B: 3 C: 30 D: 10 E: None of these (-3)

Question 23. Write 5.56 × 105 in decimal notation.

1
A: 556,000 B: 55,600,000 C: 0.0000556 D: 55,600 E:
556

Question 24. Simplify:

(𝑥 3 )5 × 𝑥 6
A: 𝑥 14 B: 𝑥 21 C: 𝑥 48 D: 𝑥16 E: 𝑥 10

Question 25. Simplify:

(𝑥 + 2)2 − (𝑥 − 5)2

A:14𝑥 − 24 B: 2𝑥 2 + 14𝑥 − 35 C: 𝑥 2 + 7𝑥 − 10 D: 21𝑥 − 14 E: 7(2𝑥 − 3)

Question 26. Factorise:

𝑝2 + 𝑝 − 30
A: (𝑝 − 3)(𝑝 + 10) B: (𝑝 − 6)(𝑝 + 5) C: (𝑝 − 10)(𝑝 + 3) D: (𝑝 − 5)(𝑝 + 6) E: None of these

Question 27. Which of the following inequality represents the following number line?

A: − 2𝑥 ≤ 4(𝑥 + 3) B: 3𝑥 ≥ 2(𝑥 − 2) C: 4𝑥 ≥ −2(𝑥 − 1) D: − 3𝑥 ≤ 4(𝑥 − 1) E: None of these

Question 28. Solve:
3𝑥 − 2
≥7
−5
A: 𝑥 ≤ −11 B: 𝑥 ≥ −11 C: 𝑥 ≤ 11 D: 𝑥 ≥ 11 E: None of these

Question 29. The result of the sum of −4𝑥 and 3 is divided by 7, the result is less than or equal to 9.
Which could not be a value of 𝑥?
A: -15 B: -2 C: 0 D: 20 E: None of these

Question 30. What is the total increase or decrease of a quantity that was increased by 35% and
then decreased by 30%?
A: 4% increase B: 5.5% decrease C: 3.8% increase D: 6% increase E: 6.4% decrease

Question 31. The length of a rectangle increased by 23% while it width decreased by 9%. What is
the percentage change in its area?
A: 11.93% increase B: 12.4% decrease C: 13.42% decrease
D: 14.34% increase E: 15.81% increase

Question 32. A rectangle has the area of 2𝑥 2 + 13𝑥 + 15, with the width of 𝑥 + 5, what is its length?
A: 2𝑥 + 5 B: 2𝑥 + 3 C: 2𝑥 − 10 D: 𝑥 − 15 E: None of these

Question 33. Factorise:

18𝑥 2 − 32𝑦 2
A: 9(𝑥 − 4𝑦)(𝑥 + 4𝑦) B: (2𝑥 − 4𝑦)(9𝑥 + 8𝑦) C: 2(3𝑥 − 4𝑦)(3𝑥 + 4𝑦)
D: 2(3𝑥 − 2𝑦)(3𝑥 + 8𝑦) E: 2(3𝑥 − 2𝑦)(3𝑥 + 8𝑦)

Question 34. Find the size of the following angle in the right angle triangle?
7 7
A: 𝑐𝑜𝑠 −1 ( ) B: 𝑠𝑖𝑛 −1 ( )
15 15

7 15
C: 𝑡𝑎𝑛−1 ( ) D: 𝑐𝑜𝑠−1 ( )
15 7

15
E: 𝑡𝑎𝑛 −1 ( )
7
Question 35. What is the true bearing of Q from O?
A: 220°T B: 50°SW

C: 140°T D: 130°T

E: 40°T

Question 36. At random a three digit is chosen. What is the probability that the number chosen was
a multiple of four?
1 1 1 1
A: B: C: D: E: None of these
8 32 25 4

Use the following information to answer questions 37 and 38.

Four dice was rolled.

Question 37. How many outcomes can there be?

A: 230 B: 360 C: 845 D: 335 E: 1296

Question 38. How many outcomes are there with no repeated numbers?
A: 230 B: 360 C: 845 D: 335 E: 1296

Question 39. If the line P 𝑦 = 3𝑥 + 5 and line S 𝑦 = 7𝑥 − 11, cross each other at a point. What is
the point?
A: (3, 15) B: (2, 19) C: (4, 17) D: (3, 16) E: (4, 15)

Question 40. Two trains from the same station are both going to Central City Station. Train A
leaves at 7am at an average of 50km/h, while train B left at 11am at 90km/h. What time would train
B over take train A?
A: 5pm B: 2pm C: 1pm D: 3pm E: 4pm

Question 41. The volume of this prism with a triangle area of 120cm 2 is 2400cm 3. What is its
surface area?
 A: 1240cm2 B: 1350cm2

C: 1151cm 2 D: 1634cm 2

E: 1560cm2

Question 42. In 10 seconds at an average speed of 70km/h, what is the closest distance a car can
travel?
A: 164m B: 5km C: 0.8km D: 194m E: 0.13km

Question 43. Solve for n:

5 3
=
𝑛 7
3 2 2 3
A: 13 B: 11 C: 12 D: 10 E: None of these
4 3 5 7

Question 44. What is the length of PQ?

A: 45 B: 50

C: 75 D: 62

E: 84

Question 45. Find the area of the following figure?

A: 845 B: 761

C: 678 D: 736

E: 789
Question 46. Amy multiplied a number by 9. Then multiple by 10. Then divided this result by 6. The
final answer that Amy received was:
A: Double the original number B: Triple the original number C: 15 times the original number
D: 20 times the original number E: 30 times the original number

Question 47. Evaluate:

(3 × 107 ) × (7.2 × 1012 )

A: 3.15 × 1025 B: 2.16 × 1020 C: 216 × 1019 D: 2.16 × 1019 E: None of these

Question 48. Amber drove 25 minutes at 60km/h and then walk for 15 minutes from the car to the
supermarket. The total distance cover was 28,000m, what was her walking speed?
A: 15km/h B: 11km/h C: 8km/h D: 12km/h E: 18km/h

Use the following diagram to answer question 49 to 51.

Triangle F and G are similar triangles.

Question 49. The scale factor of triangle

G to triangle F is:

A: 3 B: 4.25

C: 6 D: 5.2

E: 3.5

Question 50. Find the value of 𝑥.

A: 13 B: 16 C: 9 D: 12 E: 5

Question 51. Find the value of 𝑦.

A: 26 B: 42 C: 32 D: 35 E: 48
Question 52. Which of the following diagram has parallel lines?
A: B: C: D: E:
None of these

Question 53. Wyatt’s yearly net salary is $73,248. He pays tax of 25% of his net earnings. What is
his monthly net pay?
A: $6413 B: $6104 C: $4578 D: $1526 E: $5136

Question 54. What is the area created by the 𝑥 and 𝑦-axis and line 5𝑦 = 6𝑥 + 30?
A: 25 unit2 B: 12.5 unit2 C: 18 unit2 D: 26 unit2 E: 15 unit2

Question 55. What is the value of 𝑥?

A: 124° B: 108°

C: 164° D: 132°

E: 96°

Question 56. Which test proves the two triangles are congruent?
A: SAS B: RHS

C: AAS D: SSS

E: Not congruent

Question 57. Which of the following is an irrational number?

22
A: 10 B: 4. 3̇ C: -31 D: E: √7
7
Use the following information to answer question 58 to 60.
The cost ($C) on a particular tour is $125 plus $12 per day, if the tour is 𝑥days.

Question 58. Find the formula for the total cost?

A: 𝐶 = 125𝑥 B: 𝐶 = 12𝑥 C: 𝐶 = 125 + 12𝑥 D: 𝐶 = 12 + 125𝑥 E: None of these

Question 59. How much is the cost for 2 fortnights?

A: $354 B: $612 C: $461 D: $489 E: $564

Question 60. If you spent $341 on the tour, how many days did you go for?
A: 21days B: 18 days C: 8 days D: 15 days E: 10 days

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