se «ey UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA MALAYSIA sS> MATHEMATICAL THINKING FOR NOVICES 1 Hour (60 Minutes) ‘Name of Candidate: Program: Branch Campus: ‘Math Grade Obtained in SPM: * Modern Math: © Additional Mathematics:Question 1 If'it takes six men to paint a house in 21 days, how many men’s will be needed to paint the house in 14 days? Answer: ‘Question 2 Find the area of the isosceles right-angle triangle shown below”. Please explain [*NOTE: without the aid of trigonometry or Pythagoras theorem] 24em Answer: ‘Question 3 Three water hoses are used to filla children swimming pool. The first hose alone takes 3 hours to fill the pool, the second hose alone takes 4 hours to fill the pool, and the third hose pipe alone takes 12 hours to fill the pool. Ifall three hoses are opened at the same time, how long will it take to fill the pool? Please explain. Answer: ‘Question 4 The sum of the squares of the first Fifty po: the first fifty positive even integers? ive integers is 42925. What is the sum of the squares of Answer: ‘Question 5 Find the last digit of "7" Answer:Question 6 Eva and Alex want to paint the door of their garage. They first mix 2 cans of white paint and 3 cans of black paint to get a particular shade of gray. They add one more can of each. Will the new shade of gray be lighter. darker or are they the same? Please explain Answer: Question 7 ‘Jaspreet's and Sharanpreet’s alarm clock rang at 7.30 am. For the remainder of the days Jaspreet’s alarm clock will ring every 45 minutes and Sharanpreet’s alarm clock will ring every one hour. What will the time be when both the bell rings together again? Answer: Question 8 There were a number of students in the classroom and a total of 36 handshakes took place among the students, Each of the student shook hands once with everyone else in the class. How many students were in the classroom? Answer: ‘Question 9 What is the next three term for: 10, 40, 90, 61, 52, 63, — This isa reasoning puzzle. Question 10 1=243444...... +944 95+ 96+ 97 When the first 97 whole numbers are added up, what is the digit in the ones place of this total? Answer: