INTERVIEW ASSESSMENT – MATHEMATICS TEST

Duration : 15 minutes
Name : ___________________________________________________________________
Date : ___________________________________________________________________

Instructions:
i) In order to ensure accurate results, it is imperative that you attempt all questions.
ii) There are a total of 10 questions in this test.
iii) All questions must be answered without any assistance of sources outside your own cognition. Thus, calculator is NOT
ALLOWED in this test.
iv) You are allowed to scribble your workings on this paper.

1. Top Glove gains 25% profit after giving a discount of 25% to the product. Thus, if now instead of 25%, only 10% discount
is given for the product; find the new profit percent keeping the same rate of cost and selling price.

A. 10% C. 40%
B. 30% D. 100%

2. The current price of the household glove has been reduced by 30%. If the management would like to increase the price
to 100%; by what percentage should the current price of household glove be increased?

A. 70% C. 42.86%
B. 30% D. 52.86%

3. Here are eight sums:

i. 41 x 2 v. 92 – 16
ii. 97 – 14 vi. 39 + 46
iii. 40 + 41 vii. 82 ÷ 2
iv. 28 x 3 viii. 80 x 1

Work them out and put the answers in increasing order, from the smallest to the largest. Which order did you get?

A. vii, vi, viii, iii, i, ii, iv, v C. vii, v, viii, iii, i, ii, iv, vi
B. vii, iv, v, viii, iii, i, ii, vi D. None of these.

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4. In a stall at the fun fair, each player will be given 20 darts. If you are able to hit the red balloon, then 5 points will be
awarded to you. If you are able to hit the yellow balloon, then 6 points will be awarded and if you are able to hit the
green balloon, 7 points will be awarded. A small boy managed to hit 6 red balloons, 12 yellow balloons and 2 green
balloons. How many points would he have accumulated from the throw?

A. 98 C. 116
B. 20 D. 110

5. You have to add 3.61 to 4.58 and then multiply the result by 7. What is the answer?

A. 59.22 C. 35.67
B. 57.33 D. 25.5388

6. In a survey, 648 people were asked about amount of time spent per week in television viewing. 267 said that they
spent more than 12 hours a week watching television. Find the percentage of people that watched 12 hours or less
in a week.

A. 32% C. 59%
B. 41% D. 70%

7. If the cost price of car is RM38,000; find the selling price of the car if a profit of 10% was gained on top of the selling
price.

A. RM32222 C. RM42222
B . RM43333 D. RM42223

8. The cost of chemical is RM12.60. If the profit is 10% over cost, what is the selling price?

A. RM13.86 C. RM14.86
B . RM14.00 D. RM15.86

9. A student divided a number by 2/3 when he required to multiply by 3/2. Calculate the percentage of error in his
result.

A. 66.6% C. 33.33%
B . 50.00% D. 0%

10. A car driver drove an average of 42 mph on a journey of 145 miles. The best estimate of the time his journey will take is:

A. 2.89 hours C. 3 ½ hours

B. 3 hours 7 min D. 3 hours 45 min

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