MOCK EXAMINATION

DECEMBER 2018
MATHEMATICS 2&1 Name: …………..…………………………………………..

Index Number……...………….……….………………..
ESSAY and OBJECTIVE
2 Hours

GB ASSESSMENT TEST (GBAT)

MOCK EXAMINATION
December 2018 MATHEMATICS 2 & 1 2 hours

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Write your name and index number in ink in the spaces provided above.

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equal marks.

Answer all questions in your answer booklet.

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 MATHEMATICS 1 hour [60 marks]
Answer four questions in all. All questions carry equal marks.

1. (a) PQR is a triangle in which PQ = PR and S is a point on PR such that QS = QR. If < PQS = 300,
calculate < QPR

(b) Find R, if 5R2 + (22.55)2 = (27.45)2

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(c) i. Solve the inequality (x + 3) – 2(x-5) > 43
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ii. Illustrate the answer on the number line

2. Given that P(2,-3) is a vertex of a triangle PQR. PQ = (32) and RP = (−4

−1
). Find
(a) the coordinates of Q and R
(b) QR
3 7 1
(c) Simplify 4 - 8 + 2

3 7 1
of (8 - 2 )
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3.(a) The table shows the scores obtained by 20 students in a test

Score 4 5 6 7 8
Frequency 3 2 5 4 6
i. Calculate the mean score for the test

ii. Draw a bar chart for the distribution

3𝑥+1
(b) A function f:x , x ≠ 1, is defined on the set {-1, 0, 2, 3 ,4, 5 }
𝑥−1
i. Find the images of -1 and 3

ii. Find the value of x for which f(x) = 7

4. (a) Using a ruler and a pair of compasses only,

i. Construct ABC such that AB = 8cm , < ABC = 600 and <BAC = 750

ii. Locate the point O inside ABC equidistant from A, B and C

iii. Construct the circle with centre O which passes through A.

(b) Measure

i OA
ii. Angle ACB

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5. (a) The mean of five consecutive odd numbers is 11. Find the numbers.

(b) An amount of GHȻ 300000.00 was shared amongst Ama, kojo and Esi. Ama received GHȻ60000.00,
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Kojo received 12 of the remainder while the rest went to Esi. In what ratio was the money shared?

2𝑥−𝑦 𝑧+2𝑦
6. (a) Simplify + when x = 2, y = -3 and z = 4
𝑧 𝑥

(b) On a market day, Ephya bought 100 oranges at 4 for 20GP. On reaching home , she gave x oranges to

her husband and then sold the remaining at 5 for 40GP. If she made a profit of GHȻ2.60, find the

value of x.

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OBJECTIVE TEST
Write your name and index number in ink in the spaces provided above
1. Use 2B pencil throughout.
2. On the pre-printed answer sheet, check that the following details are correctly printed:
Your surname followed by your other names, the subject Name, your Index Number, Centre Number and the Paper
Code.
3. In the boxes marked Candidate Name, Centre Number and Paper code, reshade each of the shaded Spaces.
4. An example is given below. This is for a candidate whose name is Jeffrey Opoku Twum, whose Index Number
0211040067. He is writing the examination at Centre Number 21104 and offering Integrated Science 1 and the Paper
code is 2470.

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 Answer all the questions.
Each question is followed by four options lettered A to D. Find the correct option for each question and shade in
pencil on your answer sheet the space which bears the same letter as the option you have chosen. Give only one
answer to each question.
1. 6 x 111 – 3 x 111 is equal to: D. 8𝑥 32𝑥
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A. 222
B. 333 8. Dan caught 40 fish in five days . Every day he caught 3
C. 444 fish more than the previous day. The number of fish he
D. 555 caught on the third day is
A. 8
2. If the fractions are arranged from lowest to highest then B. 9
1 3 C. 10
the middle fraction is: , 31%, , 0.313, 0.303
3 10 D. 11
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A. 3
B. 0.313 9. Which group of fractions is in descending order?
3 2 3 5 5
C. A. , , ,
3 4 8 6
10 5 2 3 5
D. 31% B. , , ,
8 3 4 6
2 3 5 5
3. “Zappy stores” gives customers four points for every C. , , ,
3 4 6 8
5 3 2 5
GHȻ75 spent. Musa earned 36 points. How much did D. , , ,
6 4 3 8
Musa spend at Zappy stores?
A. GHȻ375 10. If a =2 and b=3 then the answer of 𝑏𝑎−1 + 𝑎𝑏+1 is
B. GHȻ450 A. 19
B. 25
C. GHȻ 525
C. 17
D. GHȻ 675 D. 13
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4. The number 3 x 2 ÷ 3 is equal to 11. ABC is a right angle triangle with AB = 3cm as base
1 and height AC = 4cm. The length of the hypotenuse is
A.
2 A. 2cm
B. 1 B. 8cm
C. 2 C. 6cm
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D. D. 5cm
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5. The population of a country increased by an average of 12. The diagonal of a rectangular cardboard with a length of
2% per year from 2000 to 2003. If the population of 40cm and a width of 30cm is
this country was 2 000 000 on December 31, 2003, A. 60cm
then the population of this country on January 1, 2000, B. 35cm
to the nearest thousand would have been C. 50cm
A. 1500000 D. 25cm
B. 4500000
C. 1852000 13. Janet made apple sauce to fill a cylindrical jar with a
D. 1846000 radius of 5cm and height of 12cm. If she makes the same
amount of sauce and places it in a jar with the same
6. 15% of GHȻ560 – 15% of GHȻ500 is radius but half the volume, how tall should the new jar
A. GHȻ13 be?
B. GHȻ9 A. 9cm
C. GHȻ11 B. 8cm
D. GHȻ10 C. 7cm
D. 6cm
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7. The value of √64𝑥 64𝑥 , if x is not equal to 0 is 14. The circumference of a circle with radius 2 is
A. 8𝑥 8𝑥 A. ᴨ
B. 8𝑥16𝑥 B. 2ᴨ
2
C. 8𝑥 8𝑥 C. 4ᴨ
D. 6ᴨ
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D. 3n

20. Last week Bianca earned GHȻ288.00 (before taxes)

15. What is the area of the parallelogram? for working 40 hours. This week Bianca worked 29
hours at the same rate of pay. How much did Bianca
earn (before taxes) this week?
4m 8m A. GH₵ 72.00
B. GH₵ 72.50
12m C. GH₵ 203.00
D. GH₵ 208.80
A. 38m2
B. 42m2 21. Which of the following true statements proves that 119
C. 48m2 is not a prime number?
D. 54m2 A. 17 x 7 =119
16. Find x in the diagram below B. 119 x 1=119
C. 119 > 100
D. 119 is not divisible by 3

22. A loaded truck weighs 26643 kilograms. When the trailer

truck is empty, it weighs 10547 kilograms. About how
much does the load weigh?
A. 14000 kg
A. 260 B. 16000kg
B. 640 C. 18000kg
C. 370 D. 36000kg
D. 380
23. Which of the following is always an odd integer?
17. The student council surveyed the students about their A. The product of two odd integers
favourite colour school shirts. The graph shows the B. The product of two consecutive integers
results. C. The sum of three even integers
D. The sum of two odd integers

Gold 24. The school carnival committee sold a total of 200 tickets
Red for the grand prize drawing. Sue bought enough tickets
40% 30% so that she had a 20 percent chance of winning the grand
prize. How many tickets did Sue buy?
Blue
Black A. 20
10% B. 40
20% C. 160
If the class has 250 members , which is the best prediction of D. 400
the number who prefer blue?
A. 25 25. Peter bought 45 sheets of plywood at a total cost of
B. 30 GHȻ400. He plans to sell each sheet for GHȻ15. If
C. 35 Peter has no other expenses , what is the fewest
D. 40 number of sheets he must sell to make a profit?
A. 27
18. A die is thrown. Let A be the event that the number B. 31
obtained is greater than 3. Let B be the event that the C. 30
number obtained is less than 5. Then P (A ∪ B) is D. 29
A. 1
B. 3 26. In a contest a prize of GHȻ2.72 was split equally
C. 4 among 32 winners. How much money did each of the
D. 2 32 winners receive?
A. GHȻ0.085
19. If n is any integer , which of the following expressions B. GHȻ6.25
must be an odd integer? C. GHȻ0.625
A. n +1 D. GHȻ0.0085
B. 2n
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27. A student is to answer 10 out of 13 questions in an 34. Which one is the smallest even prime number?
examination such that he must choose at least 4 from A. 4
the first five questions. The number of choices B. 1
available to him or her is C. 2
A. 196 D. 3
B. 120
C. 23 35. A school committee consists of 2 teachers and 4
D. 45 students. The number of different committees that can
be formed from 5 teachers and 10 students is
28. Five horses are in a race. Mr. A selects two of the A. 10
horses at random and bets on them. The probability B. 15
that Mr. A selected the winning horse is C. 2100
A. Four-fifths D. 8
B. One-fifths
C. Three-fifths 36. The number of gallons of water ,y, in a tank after x
D. Two-fifths hours may be modeled by the linear equation y = 800-
50x. Which of the following statements about the tank
4(𝑦−3)
29. Which value of y makes = 6 true? is true?
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A. 6 A. It is filling at a rate of 800 gallons per hour
B. 7 B. It is filling at a rate of 50 gallons per hour
C. 9 C. It is emptying at a rate of 16 gallons per
D. 15 hour
D. It is emptying at a rate of 50 gallons per
30. An airplane climbs at a rate of 66.8m per minute. It hour
descends at twice the rate that it climbs. Assuming it
descends at a constant rate, how many meters will 37. A turkey is put in the oven at 10:30 am. If the turkey
the airplane descend in 30 minutes? 3
takes 2 hours to cook, at what time should it be taken out
A. 96.8 4
B. 4008 of the oven?
C. 1002 A. 12:15pm
D. 2004 B. 12:45pm
C. 1:15pm
31. The admission price to a movie theatre is GHȻ7.50 for D. 1:45pm
each adult and GHȻ4.75 for each child. Which of the
following equations can be used to determine T, the 38. How many degrees are in the acute angle formed by a
total admission in Ghana cedi for x adults and y clock at 10 o’clock?
children A. 100
A. T = (7.50 + 4.75) (x +y) B. 300
B. T= 7.50x + 4.75y C. 360
C. T = 7.50y + 4.75x D. 600
D. T= (7.50x)(4.75)
39. How many edges does a square pyramid have?
32. A rectangle has a width of m cm and length of k cm. If
A. Three
the perimeter of the rectangle is 1523cm, which of the
following equations is true? B. Four
A. 2 (m + k) = 1523 C. Eight
B. 2m + k = 1523 D. Seven
C. m + k = 1523
D. mk = 1523 40. Reginald has 6 red pencils, 4 green pencils and 5 blue
pencils . If he picks out one pencil without looking, what
33. David has x books . Marie has twice as many books as is the probability that the pencil he picks will be green?
David has. Together they have 18 books. Which of the A. 1 out of 3
following equations can be used to find the number of B. 1 out of 4
books that David has?
C. 1 out of 15
A. x + 2 = 18
B. x +x + 2 = 18 D. 4 out of 15
C. x + 2x = 18
D. 2x =18
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