SECII/IM200M TNDEX NUMBER: MATRICULATION AND SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS BOARD ‘UNIVERSITY OF MALTA, MSIDA SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE LEVEL MAY 2008 SESSION ‘SUBIECT: PAPER NUMBER: 1 ~ Section A (Mental Paper) DATE: 10" May 2008 TIME: 20 minutes ATTEMPT ALL QUESTIONS. Write your answers in the space available on the examination paper. Itis not necessary to show your working. The use of calculators and protractors is not allowed. This paper earries a taral of 20 marks. ‘Question and Answer Space for rough All answers earry one mar work inecescary 1. What is the probability of geting a number greater than 4 when throwing a fair dice? @ Ans 2. Fillin the blanks so that ench @ row and column gives the same total, 3. Find the sum of 103, 325 and 1072. Ans, 4. Write this number in words. 7.53107 M ay, 2008 a Merron @pee page AOL| 40° Find the value of x NOTTOSCALE Ans, ‘A group of frlends each made a number of cakes for a fond raising activity. The following list gives the ‘umber of cakes mace by each person. 1,2,2,4, 6,9, 10, UI. Find the median number of cakes made. Ang Use the centimetre scale given above to find the length of the grey sirip to the nearest half of « centimetre. Ans, ‘Through bow many degrees does the minute hand of = clock rotate from 4:00 pr to 4:20 pm of the same day? Ans, ‘Write down a decimal number which is bigger than 1.5 and smaller than 1.6. Ans May 2008 Mental Rper page 432fae Ans, Solve the equation: 2 Mary will be receiving an 8% rise on her monthly ‘salary and she will be corning €)080 each month. What is her monthly salary before the rise? Ans, Find the gradient of the Line L. shown below. Ans. 14. “The third tenn of this sequence is missing. Write its value in the empty box below. May Z008 Mental pep SEC 23/1M 200M4 55, 163164165 ~ 162% 163164 3 “16364 i as 16. Give one factor of the expression 3° + a? - Gr. Ans 37. In a schoo! of 471 children there are twice as mony Birls as there are boys. How many girls are there in this school? Ans 18. One American dollar (USD) can be exchanged for £€0.6506, What is the valve in Euro of 50 USD correct, to the neorest euro cent? t 19, Tn the diagram, the een of the circle is marked as O. NOTTOSCALE Ans, 20. A clothes company decides to show its sales by country by means of a pie chert, 1f 40% of the clothes manufactured are sold in Maly, what is the ‘angle on this pic chart? Ang, May 2008 Mental Paper page 434