MATHEMATICS QUIZ COMPETITION

Grade 7
CXC Format Mathematics Questions with Correct Answers
Sets
1. List the elements in the set A = {{1, 2, 3, 4}}.
Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4
2. What is the intersection of A = {{1, 2, 3}} and B = {{2, 3, 4}}?
Answer: {2, 3}
3. Define a finite set and give one example.
Answer: A set with a limited number of elements, e.g., {1, 2, 3}
4. State whether the set of natural numbers less than 10 is finite or infinite.
Answer: Finite

Answer: A ⊆ B
5. Use symbols to represent 'A is a subset of B'.

6. What is the union of {{2, 4, 6}} and {{1, 3, 5}}?

Answer: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
7. Write the complement of set A = {{x | x < 5}} in the universal set U = {{x | x ≤
10}}.
Answer: {5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}
8. Are the sets {{1, 2, 3}} and {{3, 2, 1}} equal? Explain.
Answer: Yes, they contain the same elements.
9. State the difference between equal and equivalent sets.
Answer: Equal sets have the same elements; equivalent sets have the same number
of elements.
10. Use a Venn diagram to show A ∩ B where A = {{2, 4, 6}}, B = {{4, 6, 8}}.
Answer: A ∩ B = {4, 6}
Number Theory
1. List all the factors of 12.
Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12
2. Write the prime factorization of 36.
Answer: 2² × 3²
3. What is the HCF of 18 and 24?
Answer: 6
4. Find the LCM of 5 and 7.
Answer: 35
5. Use BODMAS to evaluate 3 + 6 × (5 + 4) ÷ 3.
Answer: 3 + 6 × 9 ÷ 3 = 3 + 18 = 21
6. Identify which of the following are composite numbers: 3, 7, 8, 9.
Answer: 8 and 9
7. Write the decimal equivalent of 3/4.
Answer: 0.75
8. Round 3.678 to 2 decimal places.
Answer: 3.68
9. What is the additive inverse of -6?
Answer: 6
10. State the commutative law of addition and give an example.
Answer: a + b = b + a, e.g., 2 + 3 = 3 + 2
Measurement
1. Convert 5 km to meters.
Answer: 5000 meters
2. Find the perimeter of a rectangle 4 cm long and 3 cm wide.
Answer: 14 cm
3. Calculate the area of a triangle with base 6 cm and height 4 cm.
Answer: 12 cm²
4. What is the volume of a cube with side 3 cm?
Answer: 27 cm³
5. Convert 2500 g to kg.
Answer: 2.5 kg
6. How many minutes are there in 2.5 hours?
Answer: 150 minutes
7. Convert 16:30 hrs to 12-hour time.
Answer: 4:30 PM
8. A container holds 2.5 L of water. Convert to mL.
Answer: 2500 mL
9. Find the mass in grams of 2.3 kg.
Answer: 2300 g
10. If a room is 5 m long and 4 m wide, what is its area in m²?
Answer: 20 m²
Algebra
1. Simplify: 3a + 5a.
Answer: 8a
2. Find the value of x if 2x + 3 = 9.
Answer: x = 3
3. Evaluate 3x² when x = 2.
Answer: 12
4. Multiply: (x)(x + 2).
Answer: x² + 2x
5. Expand: 3(x + 4).
Answer: 3x + 12
6. Simplify: (2x + 3x) - (x).
Answer: 4x
7. What is the degree of the polynomial: 4x³ + 3x² - x + 5?
Answer: 3
8. Use the index law to simplify: a³ × a².
Answer: a⁵
9. Divide: (6x² ÷ 3x).
Answer: 2x
10. Remove the brackets and simplify: 2(x + 5) - 3(x - 2).
Answer: -x + 16
Computation
1. Find 25% of 160.
Answer: 40
2. Express 0.75 as a percentage.
Answer: 75%
3. If 5 pens cost $10, what is the cost of 8 pens?
Answer: $16
4. Find the average of 12, 15, 18 and 20.
Answer: 16.25
5. Convert US$50 to GY$ at an exchange rate of 210:1.
Answer: GY$10,500
6. What is the ratio of 4 to 10 in simplest form?
Answer: 2:5
7. Express 3/8 as a percentage.
Answer: 37.5%
8. If a quantity increases from 50 to 65, what is the percentage increase?
Answer: 30%
9. A man earns $2400 in 6 days. What is his average daily earning?
Answer: $400
10. Convert 80% into a fraction in simplest form.
Answer: 4/5
Geometry
1. Name the triangle with all sides equal.
Answer: Equilateral triangle
2. What is the measure of an angle on a straight line?
Answer: 180°
3. Identify the vertically opposite angle to ∠A if two lines cross at a point.
Answer: ∠B (opposite to ∠A)
4. How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: 6
5. Draw a net of a cube.
Answer: 6 connected squares in a cross pattern
6. Name a polygon with 8 sides.
Answer: Octagon
7. What is the sum of the interior angles of a quadrilateral?
Answer: 360°
8. Identify a co-interior angle in the given diagram (not shown).
Answer: One on same side of the transversal
9. State the properties of an isosceles triangle.
Answer: 2 equal sides and 2 equal angles
10. Draw and label an obtuse angle.
Answer: An angle greater than 90° and less than 180°
Statistics
1. Find the mean of 4, 6, 8, and 10.
Answer: 7
2. What is the median of the set: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11?
Answer: 7
3. List one method of presenting statistical data.
Answer: Bar chart
4. Find the mode of: 4, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Answer: 4
5. If the scores in a test are 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, what is the average?
Answer: 30
6. Draw a bar graph to show the number of students in 4 classes (not shown).
Answer: Graphical answer
7. State the difference between mode and median.
Answer: Mode = most frequent; Median = middle value
8. Complete the frequency table for the data: 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5.
Answer: 2(2), 1(3), 3(4), 1(5)
9. Find the range of the set: 1, 4, 9, 10, 15.
Answer: 14
10. Which graphical representation is best for showing parts of a whole?
Answer: Pie chart
Consumer Arithmetic
1. A man buys a phone for $10,000 and sells it for $12,000. Find the profit.
Answer: $2,000
2. Calculate the profit % if Cost Price = $500 and Selling Price = $650.
Answer: 30%
3. If an item is bought at $400 and sold at $350, what is the loss?
Answer: $50
4. Find the loss % when Cost Price = $800 and Selling Price = $600.
Answer: 25%
5. Calculate the simple interest on $1000 for 2 years at 5% per annum.
Answer: $100
6. What is the formula for simple interest?
Answer: SI = (P × R × T) / 100
7. How much profit is made if an article is sold for $1000 and cost $850?
Answer: $150
8. Find the selling price if cost price is $200 and profit is 25%.
Answer: $250
9. What is the percentage loss if a product is bought at $250 and sold at $200?
Answer: 20%
10. Find the total interest on $2000 at 6% for 3 years.
Answer: $360

GRADE 8
CXC Format Mathematics Questions with Correct Answers
Sets
1. List the elements in the set A = {{1, 2, 3, 4}}.
Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4
2. What is the intersection of A = {{1, 2, 3}} and B = {{2, 3, 4}}?
Answer: {2, 3}
3. Define a finite set and give one example.
Answer: A set with a limited number of elements, e.g., {1, 2, 3}
4. State whether the set of natural numbers less than 10 is finite or infinite.
Answer: Finite

Answer: A ⊆ B
5. Use symbols to represent 'A is a subset of B'.

6. What is the union of {{2, 4, 6}} and {{1, 3, 5}}?

Answer: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
7. Write the complement of set A = {{x | x < 5}} in the universal set U = {{x | x ≤
10}}.
Answer: {5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}
8. Are the sets {{1, 2, 3}} and {{3, 2, 1}} equal? Explain.
Answer: Yes, they contain the same elements.
9. State the difference between equal and equivalent sets.
Answer: Equal sets have the same elements; equivalent sets have the same number
of elements.
10. Use a Venn diagram to show A ∩ B where A = {{2, 4, 6}}, B = {{4, 6, 8}}.
Answer: A ∩ B = {4, 6}
Number Theory
1. List all the factors of 12.
Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12
2. Write the prime factorization of 36.
Answer: 2² × 3²
3. What is the HCF of 18 and 24?
Answer: 6
4. Find the LCM of 5 and 7.
Answer: 35
5. Use BODMAS to evaluate 3 + 6 × (5 + 4) ÷ 3.
Answer: 3 + 6 × 9 ÷ 3 = 3 + 18 = 21
6. Identify which of the following are composite numbers: 3, 7, 8, 9.
Answer: 8 and 9
7. Write the decimal equivalent of 3/4.
Answer: 0.75
8. Round 3.678 to 2 decimal places.
Answer: 3.68
9. What is the additive inverse of -6?
Answer: 6
10. State the commutative law of addition and give an example.
Answer: a + b = b + a, e.g., 2 + 3 = 3 + 2
Measurement
1. Convert 5 km to meters.
Answer: 5000 meters
2. Find the perimeter of a rectangle 4 cm long and 3 cm wide.
Answer: 14 cm
3. Calculate the area of a triangle with base 6 cm and height 4 cm.
Answer: 12 cm²
4. What is the volume of a cube with side 3 cm?
Answer: 27 cm³
5. Convert 2500 g to kg.
Answer: 2.5 kg
6. How many minutes are there in 2.5 hours?
Answer: 150 minutes
7. Convert 16:30 hrs to 12-hour time.
Answer: 4:30 PM
8. A container holds 2.5 L of water. Convert to mL.
Answer: 2500 mL
9. Find the mass in grams of 2.3 kg.
Answer: 2300 g
10. If a room is 5 m long and 4 m wide, what is its area in m²?
Answer: 20 m²
Algebra
1. Simplify: 3a + 5a.
Answer: 8a
2. Find the value of x if 2x + 3 = 9.
Answer: x = 3
3. Evaluate 3x² when x = 2.
Answer: 12
4. Multiply: (x)(x + 2).
Answer: x² + 2x
5. Expand: 3(x + 4).
Answer: 3x + 12
6. Simplify: (2x + 3x) - (x).
Answer: 4x
7. What is the degree of the polynomial: 4x³ + 3x² - x + 5?
Answer: 3
8. Use the index law to simplify: a³ × a².
Answer: a⁵
9. Divide: (6x² ÷ 3x).
Answer: 2x
10. Remove the brackets and simplify: 2(x + 5) - 3(x - 2).
Answer: -x + 16
Computation
1. Find 25% of 160.
Answer: 40
2. Express 0.75 as a percentage.
Answer: 75%
3. If 5 pens cost $10, what is the cost of 8 pens?
Answer: $16
4. Find the average of 12, 15, 18 and 20.
Answer: 16.25
5. Convert US$50 to GY$ at an exchange rate of 210:1.
Answer: GY$10,500
6. What is the ratio of 4 to 10 in simplest form?
Answer: 2:5
7. Express 3/8 as a percentage.
Answer: 37.5%
8. If a quantity increases from 50 to 65, what is the percentage increase?
Answer: 30%
9. A man earns $2400 in 6 days. What is his average daily earning?
Answer: $400
10. Convert 80% into a fraction in simplest form.
Answer: 4/5
Geometry
1. Name the triangle with all sides equal.
Answer: Equilateral triangle
2. What is the measure of an angle on a straight line?
Answer: 180°
3. Identify the vertically opposite angle to ∠A if two lines cross at a point.
Answer: ∠B (opposite to ∠A)
4. How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: 6
5. Draw a net of a cube.
Answer: 6 connected squares in a cross pattern
6. Name a polygon with 8 sides.
Answer: Octagon
7. What is the sum of the interior angles of a quadrilateral?
Answer: 360°
8. Identify a co-interior angle in the given diagram (not shown).
Answer: One on same side of the transversal
9. State the properties of an isosceles triangle.
Answer: 2 equal sides and 2 equal angles
10. Draw and label an obtuse angle.
Answer: An angle greater than 90° and less than 180°
Statistics
1. Find the mean of 4, 6, 8, and 10.
Answer: 7
2. What is the median of the set: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11?
Answer: 7
3. List one method of presenting statistical data.
Answer: Bar chart
4. Find the mode of: 4, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Answer: 4
5. If the scores in a test are 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, what is the average?
Answer: 30
6. Draw a bar graph to show the number of students in 4 classes (not shown).
Answer: Graphical answer
7. State the difference between mode and median.
Answer: Mode = most frequent; Median = middle value
8. Complete the frequency table for the data: 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5.
Answer: 2(2), 1(3), 3(4), 1(5)
9. Find the range of the set: 1, 4, 9, 10, 15.
Answer: 14
10. Which graphical representation is best for showing parts of a whole?
Answer: Pie chart
Consumer Arithmetic
1. A man buys a phone for $10,000 and sells it for $12,000. Find the profit.
Answer: $2,000
2. Calculate the profit % if Cost Price = $500 and Selling Price = $650.
Answer: 30%
3. If an item is bought at $400 and sold at $350, what is the loss?
Answer: $50
4. Find the loss % when Cost Price = $800 and Selling Price = $600.
Answer: 25%
5. Calculate the simple interest on $1000 for 2 years at 5% per annum.
Answer: $100
6. What is the formula for simple interest?
Answer: SI = (P × R × T) / 100
7. How much profit is made if an article is sold for $1000 and cost $850?
Answer: $150
8. Find the selling price if cost price is $200 and profit is 25%.
Answer: $250
9. What is the percentage loss if a product is bought at $250 and sold at $200?
Answer: 20%
10. Find the total interest on $2000 at 6% for 3 years.
Answer: $360
GRADE 9
CXC Format Mathematics Questions with Correct Answers
A. Sets
1. List the elements in the set A = {2, 4, 6, 8}.
Answer: 2, 4, 6, 8

Answer: A set with no elements, e.g., ∅ or {}

2. Define the empty set with an example.

3. Is {x | x is a number greater than 10 and less than 5} an empty set?

Answer: Yes
4. Give one example of a finite and an infinite set.
Answer: Finite: {1, 2, 3}, Infinite: {x | x is a natural number}
5. What is the difference between equal and equivalent sets?
Answer: Equal: same elements. Equivalent: same number of elements.
6. List all subsets of {a, b}.
Answer: {}, {a}, {b}, {a, b}
7. If A = {1, 2, 3} and B = {3, 4}, find A ∩ B.
Answer: {3}
8. What is the complement of A = {1, 2} in U = {1, 2, 3, 4}?
Answer: {3, 4}
9. What does '∉' mean in set notation?
Answer: Not an element of
10. Find A ∪ B for A = {1, 2} and B = {2, 3}.
Answer: {1, 2, 3}
B. Number Theory
1. What are rational numbers? Give an example.
Answer: Numbers that can be written as a fraction, e.g., 1/2
2. Put in order: 1/2, 0.75, 0.33
Answer: 0.33, 1/2, 0.75
3. Evaluate: 6 + 2 × (3 + 1)
Answer: 6 + 2 × 4 = 6 + 8 = 14
4. Find the factors of 24.
Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24
5. Which are prime numbers: 4, 5, 6, 7?
Answer: 5 and 7
6. What is the HCF of 36 and 60?
Answer: 12
7. Write the prime factorization of 48.
Answer: 2⁴ × 3
8. Find the LCM of 4 and 10.
Answer: 20
9. State the associative law of addition.
Answer: (a + b) + c = a + (b + c)
10. Round 7.986 to one decimal place.
Answer: 8.0
C. Measurement
1. What is the SI unit of mass?
Answer: Kilogram
2. Convert 1.5 km to meters.
Answer: 1500 meters
3. Find the perimeter of a square of side 6 cm.
Answer: 24 cm
4. Find the area of a triangle with base 10 cm and height 4 cm.
Answer: 20 cm²
5. Calculate the volume of a cuboid: 5×4×3 cm.
Answer: 60 cm³
6. Convert 5000 g to kg.
Answer: 5 kg
7. How many seconds are in 2.5 minutes?
Answer: 150 seconds
8. What is 7:15 p.m. in 24-hour time?
Answer: 19:15 hrs
9. Convert 3.75 hours to minutes.
Answer: 225 minutes
10. What is the area of a circle with radius 7 cm (π = 22/7)?
Answer: 154 cm²
D. Algebra
1. What is a term in algebra?
Answer: A number or a product of numbers and variables.
2. Find the degree of the polynomial: 3x² + 5x - 7
Answer: 2
3. Simplify: 4a + 3a - 2a
Answer: 5a
4. Multiply: 2x × 3x²
Answer: 6x³
5. If x = 3, evaluate 2x + 1.
Answer: 2×3 + 1 = 7
6. Simplify: (x³)(x²)
Answer: x⁵
7. Expand and simplify: 3(x - 2)
Answer: 3x - 6
8. Remove brackets: 2(x + 4) + 3(x - 1)
Answer: 2x + 8 + 3x - 3 = 5x + 5
9. Expand: (x + 1)(x + 2)
Answer: x² + 3x + 2
10. Simplify: (4x² / 2x)
Answer: 2x
E. Computation
1. Find 20% of 150.
Answer: 30
2. Convert 3/5 to a percentage.
Answer: 60%
3. Express 40% as a fraction.
Answer: 2/5
4. Find the ratio of 2:5 expressed as a fraction.
Answer: 2/5
5. Find the average of 8, 10, 12.
Answer: 10
6. Convert $50 USD to GYD at a rate of 210:1.
Answer: GYD $10,500
7. If 10 items cost $200, what is the cost of 15 items?
Answer: $300
8. Convert 0.85 to a percentage.
Answer: 85%
9. What is the percentage increase from 60 to 75?
Answer: 25%
10. Express 7/8 as a percentage.
Answer: 87.5%
F. Geometry
1. Name three types of angles.
Answer: Acute, right, obtuse
2. What is the measure of a vertically opposite angle to 120°?
Answer: 120°
3. What are alternate angles?
Answer: Angles on opposite sides of a transversal and equal.
4. Define co-interior angles.
Answer: Angles on the same side of a transversal that add up to 180°.
5. How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: 6
6. What is the sum of the interior angles of a triangle?
Answer: 180°
7. Name a triangle with no equal sides.
Answer: Scalene triangle
8. Draw a net of a cube (describe).
Answer: 6 connected squares in cross pattern.
9. What shape has all points equidistant from a center?
Answer: Circle
10. How many degrees in a circle?
Answer: 360°
G. Statistics
1. What is a bar graph?
Answer: A graph with rectangular bars to show data.
2. Find the mode of 2, 3, 3, 4, 5.
Answer: 3
3. Find the median of 6, 8, 10.
Answer: 8
4. Find the mean of 5, 10, 15.
Answer: 10
5. Which chart shows parts of a whole?
Answer: Pie chart
6. What is the range of 2, 4, 8, 10?
Answer: 8
7. Give an example of categorical data.
Answer: Colors of cars
8. What type of graph is best for trends over time?
Answer: Line graph
9. What is a frequency table?
Answer: A table that shows how often items occur.
10. What is a tally chart?
Answer: A chart using tally marks to count data.
H. Consumer Arithmetic
1. A phone is bought for $200 and sold for $250. Find the profit.
Answer: $50
2. A bag is bought for $120 and sold for $100. Find the loss.
Answer: $20
3. A bicycle is bought for $500 and sold for $575. What is the profit?
Answer: $75
4. A book is bought at $90 and sold at $75. Find the loss.
Answer: $15
5. You bought a shirt for $300 and sold it for $360. What is the profit?
Answer: $60
6. Find the profit percent: CP = $200, SP = $250.
Answer: 25%
7. Find the loss percent: CP = $150, SP = $120.
Answer: 20%
8. A watch was bought for $400 and sold for $480. What is the profit %?
Answer: 20%
9. An item bought for $600 was sold at a loss of $90. Find the loss percent.
Answer: 15%
10. A TV was bought for $1000 and sold for $1100. What is the profit percent?
Answer: 10%