Form 4 Mathematics Paper 01 (practice paper)

Calculators are not allowed.

There are thirty questions on this paper. Answer ALL questions. For each question, there are four answers,
A, B, C and D. Choose the one you consider correct and write Only the Capital letter for your answer.
1 4 18. The set of factors of 24 is
1. What is 3
+7?
1 2 19 (A) {2,3,4} (C) {2,3,4,6,8,12}
(A) 12 (B) 7 (C) 21 (D) 1 (B) {1,4,6} (D) {1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24}

3 2 𝑥 35 19. If U = {1, 2, 3,….10} and 𝑆 = {4, 5, 6, 7, 8},

2. =
34 then 𝑆′ =
7 10
(A) 4 (B) 4
(C) 9 (D) 27 (A) {9, 10} (B) {1, 2, 3, 9}
(C) {1, 2, 3} (D) {1, 2, 3, 9, 10}
7
3. 8
expressed as a decimal is
20. Which of the following sets has a finite number of
(A) 8.75 (B) 0.875 (C) 0.0875 (D) 0.00875
members?
(A) {factors of 40}
4. What is the number 2.0847 to 2 decimal places?
(B) {multiples of 40}
(A) 2.09 (B) 2.08 (C) 2.1 (D) 2.10
(C) {odd numbers greater than 100}
(D) {prime numbers greater than 400}
5. The number 32747 written to 4 significant figures is
(A) 32740 (C) 3274
21. In the Venn diagram, the shaded portion represents
(B) 32750 (D) 3275

6. What is the next number in the following sequence:

1, 2, 4, 7, 11…
(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 17 (D) 18

7. (0.1 + 0.01) x (0.1 – 0.01) =

(A) 0.0001 (C) 0.009
(A) P ∪ Q (C) P ∩ Q'
(B) 0.001 (D) 0.0099
(B) P' ∩ Q (D) P ∩ Q
8. The LCM of 2, 6 and 8 is
22. Which of the following words BEST describes a
(A) 2 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 48
quadrilateral with all its sides equal?
(A) Rhombus (C) Parallelogram
9. What is the product of the HCF and LCM of 12, 18,
(B) Rectangle (D) Trapezium
and 30?
(A)1080 (B) 180 (C) 108 (D) 18
23. Which of the following would be MOST suitable for
10. After a 10% discount, an article is sold for $360. The
displaying the proportions of a city’s budget spent
price before the discount was
on different items?
(A) $36 (B) $324 (C) $392 (D) $400
(A) Pie chart (C) Line graph
(B) Bar chart (D) Histogram
11. $x is divided among three boys, Ryan, Keith and
Andrew, in the ratio 2:3:7, respectively. If Andrew
24. The pie chart below, not drawn to scale, shows the
gets $15 more than Keith, what is the value of x?
number of vehicles parked outside a supermarket.
(A) $27 (B) $45 (C) $57 (D) $180
Angle AOB is a right angle. Given that there were
60 vehicles, how many were there?
12. Which of the following is a prime number?
(A) 31 (B) 33 (C) 35 (D) 39

13. The cost price of an article is $40 and the profit is 20

per cent of the cost price. What is the selling price of
the article?
(A) $40.20 (B) $48.00 (C) $50.00 (D) $60.00

14. If US$1.00 is equivalent to J$120.00, how much in

US$ would one get for J$9600?
(A) $40.00 (C) $96.00
(B) $80.00 (D) $120.00

15. What is the value of (-3) – (-4)?

(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 15 (D) 20
(A) -7 (B) 7 (C) -1 (D) 1
25. The observation which occurs most frequently in a
16. 4x2 x 5x3=
sample is the
(A) 9x5 (B) 20x5 (C) 9x6 (D) 20x6
(A) Median (C) Standard deviation
(B) Mean deviation (D) Mode
17. If x is an odd number, which of the following is also
odd?
(A) 𝑥 + 1 (C) 𝑥 + 2
(B) 2𝑥 + 2 (D) 3𝑥 + 1
 26. The mean of ten numbers is 58. If one of the
numbers is 40, what is the mean of the other nine?
(A) 18 (B) 60 (C) 162 (D) 540

Items 31- 32 refer to the information below.

The following scores were obtained by eleven
footballers in a goal-shoot competition:
5, 3, 6, 8, 7, 8, 3, 11, 6, 3, 2

27. The modal score was

(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 11

28. The median score was

(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 11

29. What is the median of the sample 5, 5, 11, 9, 8, 5, 8?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 9

30. 60 students were asked to choose their favourite

sport. These are the results:
Football – 15, Cricket – 12, Swimming – 12,
Basketball – 11, Athletics – 10
The data is to be illustrated in a pie chart. What
angle should be used for Football?
(A) 150 (B) 600 (C) 900 (D) 1800