ADDIS ABABA CITY GOVERNMENT EDUCATION

BUREAU PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAVING MATHEMATICS

EXAMINATION
SENE 2010/JUNE 2018

1. Which of the following statement is true in the set of numbers?

A. W C. 0 N

B. 0.2 Z+ D. -5 Z-
2. The simplified form of the expression

+ [ ] is
A. C.

B. D.

3. Which of the following quotients are less than -1?

i. ( ) iii. () ( )
ii. ( ) iv. () ( )
A. i and iii C. iii and iv
B. ii and iv D. i and ii
4. 10 is added to three times a number. The result is multiplied by 2
and gave the product 50. What was the original?
A. 6 C. 5
B. 15 D. 10

5. What is the solution set of the equation

 2(3x + 5) – 30 = 8 – 2(x - 2)?
A. {3} C. { }

B. { } D. {4}

6. A farmer has sheep and hen. The sheep and hens together have
100 heads and 288 legs. How many sheep does the farmer have?
A. 44 C. 36
B. 56 D. 64
7. What is the solution set of the inequality > in the set of
natural numbers?
A. {1, 2} C. {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
B. {1, 2, 3, 4} D. {1, 2, 3}
8. Which one of the following percentage is NOT equal to the rest?
A. 10% of 150 C. 16% of 90
B. 15% of 100 D. 12% of 125
9. A man buys a washing machine whose price VAT (Value added
Tax) is Birr 1650. Its VAT is changed at 15%, how much did the
man actually pay?
A. Birr 10,500 C. Birr 12, 500
B. Birr 15, 000 D. Birr 11, 000
10. W/roAlmaz deposited Birr 2000 in a bank that pays 7% simple
interest per annum. In how many years will her amount be birr
2420?
A. 3 C. 4
B. 7 D. 5
11. A survey was conducted by asking 200 students in Addis Ababa
city how they traveled to school. The following pie chart shows
the result of the survey. How many of the students travelled to
school by taxi?
A. 80
B. 64
C. 40
D. 32

12. The following line graph shows a day to day temperature changes
in certain town.

Which of the following is NOT true about the line graph?

A. The lowest temperature was recorded on Day 1.
B. Day 2 has higher temperature than Day 3.
C. The temperature of the town increases continuously.
D. The same temperature was recorded on Day 3 and Day 5.
13. The mode score on the 8th grade math exam was 84. Which of
these interpretations must be correct?
A. A score of 84 was the highest score.
 B. 84 was the average score in the class.
C. No one scored below 50.
D. More students received a 84 any other score.
14. Which of the following plane figure can have congruent
diagonals?
A. Square C. Rhombus
B. Parallelogram D. Triangle

15. What is the sum of the measures of all interior angles of a regular
octagon?
A. 720o C. 900o
B. 1080o D. 1440o
16. A square is cut from a circle as shown in the figure below. If the
radius of the circle is 7 cm, what is the total area of the shaded
region? (use π = 22/7)
A. 154 cm2
B. 98 cm2
C. 56 cm2
D. 105 cm2
17. The base of a right prism is right angled triangle with legs 6 cm
and 8 cm. If the altitude of the prism is 9 cm, then the total
surface area is
A. 216 cm2 C. 126 cm2
B. 48 cm2 D. 264 cm2
18. The area of a circle is 121 π cm2. What is the circumference of the
circle?
 A. 22 π cm C. 24 π cm
B. 11 π cm D. 12 π cm
19. Which of the following number is not cubic number?
A. 125 C. 343
B. 252 D. 512
20. What is the cubic root of the number 0.000216?
A. 0.006 C. 0.06
B. 0.16 D. 0.016

21. The simplified form of the expression √ √ √ is

A. 6 C. 3
B. D.

22. Which pair of algebraic expressions contain like terms?

A. -2a2b and 2ba2C. ½ x2y and -8xy2
B. 12p2q3 and –q2p3 D. -6m3n2 and -4m2n3
23. What is the factorized from of the term: 4ax + 12a + 2bx + 6b?
A. (x + 4) (3a + 2b) C. (3x + 4) (a + 2b)
B. (x + 3) (4a + 2b) D. (4x + 3) (a + 2b)
24. The value of when evaluated at x = 2 and y = -1 is

A. C. 3

B. 2 D. 5

25. The solution for the equation + = 1 is

A. C.

B. D.
26. Which of the following equation represents a vertical line?
A. 2x – 5 = 7 C. 4y + 3 = 11
B. y = -4x D. 5x + 10y – 20 = 0
27. Which one of the following sets contain the solution for
0.5 (x - 8) 6 + 1.5x?
A. {x: x -2} C. {x: x 2}
B. {x: x -10} D. {x: x 10}
28. What is the equation of a line that pass through the point (-3, 4)

and hasslope ?

A. y = x + 3 C. y = x + 5

B. 3y – x + 9 = 0 D. 3y – x + 15 = 0

29. In the figure below, O is the center of enlargement such that,

OPl = 3OP, OQl = 3OQ and ORl = 3OR

What is the scale factor of enlargement for the given triangle?

A. C.

B. 2 D. 3
30. The sides of a polygon have lengths 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12 cm. The
perimeter of a similar polygon is 90 cm. What is the length of the
largest side of larger polygon?
A. 30 cm C. 36 cm
B. 15 cm D. 18 cm
31. In the following figures, the two triangles are similar by SSS
Similarity Theorem.

Which of the following is correct naming of these two similar

triangles?
A. ∆ ABC ∆ DEF C. ∆ ABC ∆ EDF
B. ∆ ABC ∆ DFE D. ∆ ABC ∆ FDE
32. A part of a circle which is greater than half of a circle is
A. Semicircle C. Major arc
B. Minor arc D. Sector
33. Which one of the following statement is always true about cyclic
quadrilaterals?
A. All sides are equal.
B. Opposite angles are equal.
C. The vertices of the quadrilateral may not be on the circle.
D. Opposite angles are supplementary.
34. In the figure below, O is the center of the circle and
m (< TPO) = 20o, m (< TSO) = 30o. What is the measure of
m (< POS)?
A. 100o
B. 95o
C. 140o
D. 130o
35. The ratio of the number of successful outcomes in the event to the
total number of possible outcomes in the sample space is:
A. Probability scale C. Impossible outcomes
B. Probability of an event D. event chance
36. A ball is drawn at random from a box containing 4 white, 6 blue
and 5 red balls. What is the probability that a ball drawn is not
blue?
A. C.

B. D.

37. Which of the following triples of numbers could be the length of

sides of right angled triangle?
A. 5 cm, 12 cm, 14 cm C. 7 cm, 11 cm, 13 cm
B. 3 cm, 5 cm, 7 cm D. 9 cm, 12 cm, 15 cm
38. An electric pole casts a shadow of 15 meter long. If the tip of the
shadow is 17 meter far from the top of the pole, how long is the
pole from the ground?
A. 8 meters C. 10 meters
B. 9 meters D. 7 meters
39. In the figure below ∆ XYZ is right angled triangle, ̅̅̅̅̅ is the
altitude to the hypotenuse ̅̅̅̅ of ∆ XYZ. If ̅̅̅̅̅ = 4 cm and
̅̅̅̅̅ = 8 cm, then what is the length of ̅̅̅̅̅ ?
A. 12 cm
B. 16 cm
C. 10 cm
D. 15 cm

40. In the figure below, ∆ ABC is right angled triangle at C.

If m (< ABC) = 30o and ̅̅̅̅ = 6 units, then what is the length of
̅̅̅̅ ?

A. 3√ units
B. 3 units
C. 3√ units
D. 4 units