ae | ‘SE023/1.20078 INDEX NUMBER: MATRICULATION AND SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS BOARD UNIVERSITY OF MALTA, MSIDA SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE LEVEL SEPTEMBER 2007 SESSION SUBJECT: ‘Mathematics PAPER NUMBER: 1— Mental Paper DAT! 3" September 2007 TIME: 20 minutes ATTEMPT ALL QUESTIONS Write your answers in the space available on the examination paper. It is not necessary to show your working. The use of calculators and protractors is not allowed. This paper carries a total of 20 marks. Question and Answer. > a Ail aniswers entry one mark: ‘Space for tough ‘work“if necessary" 1 2 & 38% Ax NOT TO SCALE Find the value of x, Ans, 2. A. fifiy-minute television programme started at 10:15am. When did it finish? 3. Write in order, smailest first: 1 2, 3 Ans, page 427\ 4, _ Tlie following temperatures were recorded at a weather station‘over five days: 26°C, 25°C, 19°C, 21°C and 22°C. ‘Find the median temperature over the five days. Ans 5. ‘The length of a rectangular yard is four times as long as its width, ‘The area of the yard is 324m”. Find the size, in metres, of the width of the yard. Ans, 6. Find the value of 25% of Lm5600. Ans, 7. _ Find the area of this pentagon. Ans. 8, Write £ as a decimal number. Ans, 9; . ‘The scale of a map is 1:20 000. What is the actual length, in m, of a road which is 4 cm long on the map? Ans, 10. Fill in the missing number in the sum below. 37x41 =(30x41)+(7*__) Ser 200% paye 429 Mental paperQuestion and: Ane LAlbanswers éarry, 11. A factory produces 90, 110 ‘and 85 shirts in the first three days of a particular week. How many shirts need to be produced on the fourth day so that the average production over the first’ four days of that week is 100 shirts per day? Ans. 12. ‘The figure shows a rhombus ABCD with ZBAC = 15°. A B D c Find the size of ZABC. Ans. 13. The exchange rate is Lm1 = €2.3294. Find the cost in euros of a carpet costing Lm25, giving your answer correct to the nearest euro. Ans, 14. The temperature in degrees Fahrenheit (°F) is converted to degrees Celsius (°C) by first subtracting 32 and then multiplying by five-ninths. Fill in the empty spaces in the flow-chart below to convert 365°F to degrees Celsius. oF. x °e 2. 9 365 |—_————_>} |_| 15, How many pieces of string, each = m long, can be cut from a roll of string 50 m long? Ans. SEP Zo0% page 424q MENTE L papaJANUARY 2008 M 7 14 21 28 Tu 1 8:75 22 2 Ww 2 9 16 23 30 Th 3 10 17 24 31 F 4 11 18 25 Sa 5 12 19 26 Su 6 & =» mw Use the calendar above to find the day on which the 19" February 2008 falls. Ans 17, ‘The quotient of 96577 and 23 is given below. 96577 = 23 = 4199 Use this information to determine the value of 2.3 x 4199, Ans, 18. Use the given axes to draw a line with Bradient 0. » [resent e 19. Find the value of y if 2y+1=~17, Ans. 20. ‘Which of the given values is a good estimate of 531.1? 131.129 (®) 260000 (b) 160000 (@) 400 (a) s00 . Ans! SEP 200% ing 40 MENTE L. pape