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M.S.C.E.

MATHEMATICS PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Compiled by Grant Rodi

1. a. Factorise completely x2 + 3x + 4(x+3)


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b. Solve for x, =2
2. a. 1 is the difference between two positive integers which its squares add up to 365. Find the numbers.
b. Solve the equation x3 – 2x2 – 4x + 3 = 0
3. a. Given that f(x) = x3 - x, calculate f(-2).
b. Make n the subject of the formula T = arn
c. Solve the following simultaneous equations
x2 – y2 = 0
2x – 4y = 2
4. A line parallel to 2y = 3x – 4 passes through y-axis at 3. Find its equation in the form y = mx + c.
5. a. Find the distance between L(-2, 8) and P(4, -1), giving your
answer correct to 2 decimal places
b. A point D(-4, 1) is translated to a point D’ which is 7 units to the right
and 3 units down of D, find the coordinates of D’.
6. A point T has the coordinates( ). The matrix which transforms T into T’ is( ). Calculate the coordinates of T’.
7. What is the area of an equilateral triangle with sides that are 10 cm long?
8. A car starts from rest and it uniformly accelerated at 5 m/s2 until it attains a velocity of 30 m/s. It maintains this
velocity for 120 s after which it is brought to rest in another 90 s. Sketch the velocity-time graph for this motion
and use it to find the distance covered by the car.
9. A chord of a circle of radius 5 cm is 8 cm long. Sketch the diagram and calculate the angle subtended by the
chord at the centre of the circle.
10. a. A box has 5 cards marked 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Another box has two cards marked A and B. If a card is picked
randomly from each box at the same time, use a tree diagram to calculate the probability of picking a card marked
3 from one box and a card marked B from the other box.
b. In a plastic bag, there are x blue pens, 6 black pens and 4 red pens. If the probability of picking a red pen is 1/5,
calculate the number of blue pens.
11. Mr Nkhoma manufactures two types of tables, called the Executive and the Standard. The Executive table needs
150 man-hours while the Standard needs 90 man-hours. The raw materials for making the tables are such that
K400 are needed for the Executive tables and K300 will be needed for the Standard tables. Mr Nkhoma charges

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K480 and K360 for the Executive and Standard tables respectively, and he has K42 000 available to spend and
can use 13 500 man-hours.
a. If x is the number of Executive tables and y is the number of Standard tables made, write down the
inequalities that x and y must satisfy.
b. Show the region graphically in which points (x, y) must lie by shading unwanted regions.
c. Hence find the number of tables of each type to be manufactured in order to make maximum profits.
d. Calculate the maximum profit
12. A vendor decides to spend up to K600 to buy packets of sweets and biscuits. She does not want to buy more than
10 packets altogether but wants to buy at least 2 packets of each. A packet of sweets costs K40, and that of
biscuits costs K80. The profit on each packet of sweets is K10 and on each packet of biscuits is K15.
a. By taking x to represent the number of packets of sweets and y to represent the number of biscuits, write
down four inequalities that satisfy the above information.
b. Using a scale of 2 cm to represent 2 units on both vertical and horizontal axes, draw graphs to show the
region represented by the inequalities.
c. Use your graph to find the number of packets of sweets and biscuits respectively for the vendor to get the
maximum profit.
13. A quantity a is the sum of two parts, one of which is constant while the other varies inversely as the square of n.
When n = 1, a = -1 and when n = 2, a = 2. Find the value of a when n = 4.
14. Figure 1 shows a solid cone of base radius OC = 7 cm and the slant height AC = 21 CM

Calculate the total surface area and volume of the cone

15. The lengths of twenty leaves of a certain species of plant were measured and found to be (in mm);
29, 48, 39, 55, 21, 49, 25, 36, 57, 42, 33, 39, 53, 42, 38, 37, 43
Find the mean and standard deviation of the lengths of the leaves.

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16. A rectangle has the length 4y cm and the width 3y cm. Write an expression for the length of the diagonal of the
rectangle, in terms of y, in simplified surd form.
17. A class of 50 students wrote tests in Mathematics, Biology and Physical Science. The results of the tests were as
follows: 12 passed Mathematics and Physical Science, 19 passed Mathematics and Biology, 17 passed Biology
and Physical Science, 2 passed Physical Science only, 5 passed Mathematics only, and 6 passed Biology only. If
5 students failed all the three subjects and x passed all the subjects, use a Venn-diagram to calculate the value of
x.
18. a. Copy and complete the table of values for the equation y = 2x2 – 5x – 5
x -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
y 13 -5 -7 7
b. Using a scale of 2 cm to represent 1 unit on the horizontal axis and 2 cm to represent 5 units on the vertical

axis, draw the graph of y = 2x2 – 5x – 5.

c. Use your graph to solve the equation y = 2x2 – 3x – 10 = 0.

19. a. Draw the table of values for the equation y = x3 – 4x

b. Using a scale of 2 cm to represent 1 unit on the x-axis and 2 cm to represent 5 units on the y-axis, draw the

graph of y = x3 – 4x.

c. Use your graph to solve the equation y = x3 – 7x – 6 = 0.

20. Figure below shows a parallelogram ABCD in which ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗ = X and ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗ = y.

If ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗ = ¼ ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗ , find ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗ interms of x and y.

THE END

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