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CHRISTIAN
SCHOOL
SECONDARY
GRADE 7
SEMESTER TEST 1/TERM 1/2016-2017

Name :
SCORE:
Date :

Duration : 120 Minutes PARENT’S SIGNATURE:

MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
SPECIMEN PAPER

Candidates answer on the Question Paper.

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on

the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen.
You may use a pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough
working.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or
correction fluid.

Answer all questions.

CALCULATOR IS NOT ALLOWED.

You should show all your working in the booklet.

The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of
each question or part question.
The total number of marks for this paper is 85.
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This document consists of 5 printed pages.

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1. Simplify .

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2. Determine the least common multiple (LCM) of 16 and 36.

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3. Determine the highest common factor (HCF) of 24, 36, and 52

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4. Ani has 20 blue balloons, 16 red balloons, and 24 yellow balloons. If she wants to
give all of her balloons equally to her friends as many as possible, how many
balloons each of her friends will receive?
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5. Jeri, Frans, and Wulan like to go to theater. Jeri goes to theater once every 6 days,
Frans goes to theater once every 8 days, and Wulan goes to theater once every 12
days. If they go to the theater together on June, 20th 2016, when will they go to the
theater together for the second time?

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6. Rio wants to buy a bag that cost $ 215.00. He has $125.00 in his wallet. His
mother then gives him $120.00. How much money he will have left after he buys
the bag?

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7. + =…
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8. – =…

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9. – : – =…

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10. Maria has one meter of ribbon. She gives of it to her sister. If her mother later

gives her meter of the same ribbon, Determine the length of ribbon Maria has

now.
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“I will tell you the truth, unless you change and become like a little children,
you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles
himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven” – Mathew 18:
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GOODLUCK and GODBLESS!!!-Mr. Jeri