Mathematics CXC Paper 1 Practice Questions

The length of the sides of a triangle are x,2x and 2x centimeters. If the perimeter is 20 centimeters, what is the value of x?

When 8 is subtracted from a certain number and the result is multiplied by 3 the final answer is 21. What is the original number?

What is 30% of $9000?

Sum of all interior angles of a polygon with (n) sides is given by

Simple interest

Venn diagram

John has x marbles and max has twice as many. Max gives John 5 of his marbles. How many marbles does max now have?

What is the largest share when $360 is divided in the proportion 2:7:9?

Betty and Ann shared a sum of money in the ratio 2:3 respectively. Ann received $120. what was Betty share?

What is 1004 divided by 2?

What is the cube root of 27?

What is the highest common factor of the set of numbers{30,45 90}?

The cost of 14 articles is $28.14. What is the cost of 12 similar articles?

A toy was sold for$24.00, at a profit of 20%. The cost price was

Sum of all interior angles of a parallelogram is

Which of the following is more than 0.35 but less than 0.41

What number when added to 1 1/3 gives 2

Write 689.56 to the nearest whole number

All students in a class play scrabble or checkers or both. 36% of the students play scrabble only. 48% of the students play checkers only. What percentage of students play both games?

If the means of the four numbers 4,8 x and 12 is 10, then x is

By the distributive law 49`x 17 +49 x 3=

A five metre-long ladder which rests on the horizontal ground is leaning against a vertical wall. The foot of the ladder is 3m away from the wall. How far up the wall does the ladder reach

The HCF of 24, 60 and 96

The cost of six pens is$37.20. What is the cost of eight similar pens?

The sum of two numbers, x and y is 18, and their difference is 14. which pair of equation below describes the above statement?

A dress which costs $180 is being sold at a discount of 10%. The amount of the discount is

A dinner at a restaurant was advised at $60 plus 18% tax. The total bill for this dinner was

Fifty guest each had 2 glasses of champagne. Each glass held 150 millimeters. How many litres of champagne were used?

John bought a book for $60 and sold it to gain 20% on his cost price. How much money did he gain?

Susan bought a calculator for $120. She had to pay a sales tax of 10% on the price. How many change would she receive from $140?

What is the square root of 100?

How many cents is equal to $ ¼?

The square root of 191 lies between

If -2x+6=18,then x =

if 5x-26=x+5, then the value of x is

Of a class of 32 students, 17 study music and 20 study Art. What is the LEAST number of students who study BOTH Music and Art?

During a sale, a shop allows 20% discount off the marked price of clothing. what will a customer pay for a dress with a marked price of $30?

A company employs 12 gardeners at$26 per day, and 8 clerks at $17 per day. What is the mean daily wage in dollars, of the 20 employees?

In the triangle the value of x is

What is the square root of 108,900?

What is 10% of 300?

Althea usually saves x dollars each month ; but in June she saved $4 more than twice the usual amount. How many dollars did she save in June?

A shop keeper bought an article for $50 he sold it and gained 20% profit. How many dollars did he gain?

All the sides of a regular polygon are

What is the term given to the perimeter around a circle?

What is 49,123 + 27,586?

How many inches are there in a foot?

A clock reads 4:30. If the minute hand points East, in what direction will the hour hand point?

How many lines of symmetry does a rhombus have?

Enlargement

Each of the letter of the word CHANCE is written on a slip of paper similar in size and shape. The slips of paper are then placed in a bag and thoroughly shaken. What is the probability of randomly drawing a letter ”C”?

How many seconds are in a hour ?

Find the H.C.F of 12, 18 and 24

Which of the following represents the graph of a function?

f =

Seven times the product of two numbers, a and b, maybe written as

If ja$24.50 is equal to US$$1.00, then US$25 in Jamaican currency is

A number is greater than 3 but less than 8. Also the number is greater than 6 but less than 10. What is the number?

Which of the following represents the equation of a straight line?

Area

If 60% of a number is 90, what is the number?

Set

The next term in the sequence 1,6,13,22,33 is

An aircraft leaves A at 16:00 hrs and arrives at B at 19:30 hrs, traveling at an average speed of 550 kilometers per hour. The distance from A to B in kilometers is

The number 3.14063 written correct to 3 decimal is

A man leaves home at 22:15hrs and reaches his destination at 04:00 hrs on the following day, in the same time zone. How many hours did the journey take?

25×130 is the same as

If TT$6.00 is equivalent to US$1.00,then TT$15.00 in US dollars is

A man salary is $45000. His tax free allowance total is $13000. He has to pay a tax of 35% on his taxable income. The tax payable is

How many factors are there in 71?

3/100 is the same as

What percentage of 30 is 6?

Which is the smallest fraction among the following?

2500 millimeters expressed in metres is

Mr. Duncan bought a table at a discount of 30% thus saving $42. what was the marked price of the table?

Books

Mary invested $200 for 3 years at 5% per annum. John invested $300 at the same rate. If they both received the same amount of money in interest, for how many years did john invest his money ?

99 x 101 has the same value as

What is the least number of plum can be share equally among 6, 9 or 12 children

If it took a speed boat 9 hours to travel a distance of 1080km, what its average speed?

The perimeter of a square is 48 cm, What is the area , in cm square ?

The area of a triangle is 30 cm its base is 10 cm. What is the perpendicular height in cm, of the triangle?

What is the value of 2^0

If 5x-26 = x+50,then the value of x is

There are 40 students in a class. Girls make up 60% of the class. 25% of the girls wear glasses. How many girls in the class wear glasses?

How many centimeters are there in 1.5 metres?

What is the square root of 81?

What is the smallest composite number?

A bag contains 60 marbles of different colours. The probability of choosing a red marble is 5/12. How many red marbles does the bag contain?

Simplify the algebraic expressions 5x+3x

The HCF of 12, 15 and 60 is

Relate to the set of scores shown below. 2 5 9 8 7 8 The modal score is

Transformation

At a sale, each book was marked $3.00 off the original price. Daneil paid $46.00 for two books that had the same price. What was the cost of one of his books?

On leaving Trinidad,the time on a pilots watch was 23:00hrs. When he arrived at his destination, in the same time zone, on the following day his watch showed 03:00hrs. How many hours did the flight take?

If $7000 is borrowed at the rate 5% per annum for 3 years, the simple interest is

If 5% of a number is 20, then 35% of the number is

Complete the sequence 13, 16, ……, 22.

The FIRST three common multiples of 3, 4 and 6 are:

Square unit