Y12 Life Mathematics 2022 Paper

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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, HERITAGE & ARTS

FIJI YEAR 12 CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION 2022
LIFE MATHEMATICS
QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOKLET
Time Allowed: 3 hours
(An extra 10 minutes is allowed for reading this paper)
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Write your Index Number on the top right hand corner of this page.
2. Answer all questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this booklet.
3. If you use extra sheets of paper be sure to show clearly the question being answered. Write
your Index Number on the top right hand corner of each sheet, and tie it securely at the
appropriate place in this booklet.
4. Answer all the questions with a blue or black ballpoint or ink pen. Do not use red ink pen.
Use a pencil only for drawing.
5. Unless otherwise stated, all final decimal answers should be rounded off to two decimal
places.
6. You may use a calculator, provided it is silent, battery-operated and non-programmable.
SUMMARY OF QUESTIONS
STRANDS MARKS SUGGESTED TIME

1. Social Mathematics 40 70 minutes
2. Measurement 30 55 minutes
3. Statistical Research and Analysis 14 25 minutes
4. Applied Measurement 16 30 minutes
TOTAL 100 180 minutes
YOU MUST HAND IN THIS BOOKLET TO THE SUPERVISOR BEFORE

YOU LEAVE THE EXAMINATION ROOM.
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2.
INSTRUCTIONS
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. In this booklet, circle the letter of the best answer. If you change your mind, put a line
through your first circle and draw a circle around the letter of your next choice.
For example: Which expression can be used to convert a speed of 3 metres

per minute to a speed in centimetres per second?
3 100
A.
60
3 60
B.
100
3 100
C.
3600
3
D.
100  60
2. If you change your mind again and like your first answer better, put a line through
your second circle and tick () your first answer.
For example: Which expression can be used to convert a speed of 3 metres

per minute to a speed in centimetres per second?
3 100
 A.
60
3 60
B.
100
3 100
C.
3600
3
D.
100  60
OTHER TYPES OF QUESTIONS

Show working where appropriate in the spaces provided.
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3.
STRAND 1 SOCIAL MATHEMATICS [40 marks]
1. On a domestic flight the checked baggage allowance per passenger is 15 kg. If you take
more, you must pay $8 for every extra kilogram.
When travelling to Kadavu, Taniela checks in 20 kg of baggage. How much will he pay for
the excess baggage?
A. $10
B. $20
C. $40
D. $50 (1 mark)
2. A car salesman earns $50 commission for each car that he sells. How many cars should
he sell to earn a commission of $500?
A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. 40 (1 mark)
3. This year Mohammed earns $5 per hour at his job. For next year, this rate will increase
by 10%.
His new hourly rate will therefore be
A. $5.10
B. $5.20
C. $5.40
D. $5.50 (1 mark)
4. Harshita deposited $1000 into a savings account which pays 5% simple interest per year.
How much interest will she get each year?
A. $10
B. $20
C. $50
D. $60 (1 mark)
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4.
STRAND 1 (continued)
5. (a) The cash price of a laptop is $2500. Tevita wants to buy the laptop on a hire
purchase agreement. The conditions of the agreement are:
 20% deposit;
 16% per annum simple interest on the balance;
 24 equal monthly payments.
(i) Calculate the deposit for this hire-purchase agreement.
deposit = $ _______
(1 mark)
(ii) Determine the total interest to be paid over the period of 24 months.
total interest = $ _______

(3 marks)
(iii) Determine the monthly payments.
monthly payments = $ _______

(2 marks)

5.
5. (b) State one advantage and one disadvantage of hire purchase for the consumer.
Advantage : _______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________(1 mark)
Disadvantage : ____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________(1 mark)
6. Ryan’s normal rate of pay is $10 per hour for a 40-hour week. Overtime is paid at
double-time.
(a) How much does he earn in a week in which he works for 40 hours at normal rate?
weekly earnings = $__________
(1 mark)
(b) Calculate the overtime rate.
overtime rate = $__________
(1 mark)
(c) Last week his gross pay was $500 when, in addition to his normal 40 hours, he
worked overtime.
How many hours of overtime did Ryan work last week?
overtime = __________ hours
(2 marks)
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6.
7. (a) List two principle guidelines that should be followed when preparing a
budget for a family.
(i) ___________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________ (1 mark)
(ii) ___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________ (1 mark)
(b) Mere’s monthly budget is shown below.
Income
Monthly net pay $1650
Expenses
Food $525
Bus fare $65
Bills $40
Medical $40
Clothing $80
Personal $200
Total Expenses $950
Savings
(i) Find Mere’s savings per month.
savings = $________
(1 mark)
(ii) Mere is saving for a refrigerator which costs $3500. How many months will
she have to wait before she can buy the refrigerator if she keeps to her budget?
number of months = ________

(1 mark)

7.
7. (c) Outline two reasons why it is important for a family to save money.
(i) ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________(1 mark)
(ii) ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________(1 mark)
8. Ryana and Manoa go shopping in a shop that is advertising the following:
SALE! SALE! SALE!

10% OFF ON ALL
MARKED PRICES
(a) Ryana buys a dress with a marked price of $40. How much does she pay?
amount paid = $________

(1 mark)
(b) Manoa saves $20 on a pair of jeans. How much does he pay for the jeans?
amount paid = $_______

(2 marks)
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8.
9. Jamie goes on a holiday to New Zealand. The exchange rate between Fiji Dollar (FJD)
and New Zealand Dollar (NZD) is
1 FJD = 0.69 NZD
(a) He changes 1000 Fiji Dollars into New Zealand Dollars.

How much will he get in New Zealand Dollars?
amount = _______ NZD

(1 mark)
(b) After his holiday, Jamie changes 207 New Zealand Dollars back into Fiji Dollars
using the same rate.
How much will he get in Fiji Dollars?
amount = _______ FJD

(1 mark)
10. Kara invested $600 to start a micro business in partnership with Maria who invested $400.
A profit of $5700 was shared between them in the same ratio as their investments.
How much did each one get?
Kara’s share = $_______ Maria’s share = $_______

(3 marks)

9.
11. Sala invests a lump sum of $10 000 in a savings account. The investment earns interest
at 9% per annum, compounded monthly.
(a) What is the monthly interest rate for Sala’s investment?
monthly rate = _______ %

(1 mark)
(b) Calculate the amount in Sala’s savings account at the end of 3 months.
n
[ You may use: A  P(1  r) ]
amount = $ _______
(2 marks)
(c) How much interest does Sala earn in 3 months?
interest earned = $ _______

(1 mark)
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10.
12. Joe purchased a radio for $218 inclusive of 9% VAT.

Calculate the amount of VAT included in the price.
VAT = $ _______
(3 marks)
13. Juice of a particular brand is sold in cans and bottles. The prices are shown below.
Option 1: 1 can (375 ml) for $1.20

Option 2: 1 bottle (750 ml) for $2.50
Which option is the best buy? Justify your answer with calculations.
(2 marks)
14. Ashika’s bank balance at the end of October 2022 was $1600. The employer deposited
her net pay on 01/11/2022 into her bank account and the new balance was $2700.
Calculate the net pay that was deposited into Ashika’s bank account.
net pay = $__________

(1 mark)
40
11.
STRAND 2 MEASUREMENT [30 marks]
1. Nadiya is baking a cake. The recipe says that the cake should be baked in the oven for
1 hour and 20 minutes. She puts the cake in the oven at 9.10 am.
At what time should she take the cake out of the oven?
A. 10.00 am
B. 10.10 am
C. 10.20 am
D. 10.30 am (1 mark)
2. The concentration of sugar in a juice is 0.05g/ml. If you drink 200 ml of the juice,
what mass of sugar are you taking?
A. 1 g
B. 5 g
C. 10 g
D. 200 g (1 mark)
3. A farmer delivered 36 890 kg of sugarcane to a sugar mill.
(a) Given that 1 tonne = 1000 kg, convert 36 890 kg to tonnes.
36 890 kg = _________ tonnes

(1 mark)
(b) Calculate the gross farm income at the rate of $85 per tonne.
gross farm income = $ _______

(1 mark)
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12.
4. Fiji is 2 hours ahead of Sydney, Australia. Ignore daylight saving times.
(a) What is the time in Sydney when it is 12.00 pm in Fiji?
Sydney time = _______

(1 mark)
(b) Maro is going to fly from Sydney to Fiji. His flight will leave on Saturday at
9.00 am, Sydney time, and will take 4 hours and 30 minutes.
What time will it be in Fiji when he arrives?
Fiji time = _______

(2 marks)
5. A garden hose can fill a 4-litre bucket in 30 seconds.

What is the rate of flow from the hose in litres per hour?
rate of flow = _______ L / h

(2 marks)
6. Convert:
(a) 1.00 pm to 24-hour time.
1.00 pm = _______
(1 mark)
(b) 1745 to 12-hour time.
1745 = _______
(1 mark)

13.
7. The dimensions of a garage floor are shown below.
4800 mm
3000 mm
(a) Given that 1 m = 1000 mm, show that the area of the garage floor is 14.4 m 2
(1 mark)
(b) The garage floor is to be tiled. Each tile is 0.6 m by 0.3 m.
Calculate the total number tiles needed to cover the garage floor, if we also allow
an extra 10% for wastage.
total number of tiles = _______

(3 marks)
(c) The tiles are sold in boxes of 8. How many boxes need to be purchased to tile the
garage floor?
number of boxes needed = _______

(1 mark)
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14.
8. A rectangular field 400 m by 200 m is shown below.
400 m
200 m
(a) The field is to be fenced and posts are to be placed 2 m apart.
How many posts will be needed?
number of posts = _______

(2 marks)
(b) Posts cost $30 each at Kama’s Timber Limited. The delivery charge is $20.
How much will it cost to buy the posts from Kama’s Timber and have it delivered?
cost = $ _______
(2 marks)

15.
9. A cylindrical tank, used to store water, has an inner radius of 2 m and an inner height of
3 m as shown below.
2m
3m
3
(a) Using the formula V  π r 2h , find the storage capacity of the tank in m .
Leave your answer in terms of π .
3
storage capacity = _____ m
(1 mark)
3
(b) Given that 1 m = 1000 L, how many litres of water will the tank hold?
volume = _______ L
(1 mark)
(c) Calculate the mass of water in the tank if it is completely filled with water of
3
density 1000 kg/m . ( Hint: mass  density  volume )
mass = _______ kg
(1 mark)
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16.
10. The diagram shows a rpm gauge in a car.
(a) What does rpm stand for?

___________________________________________
(1 mark)
(b) What is the reading on the gauge?
reading = ______________rpm
(1 mark)
2
11. The walls of a house are to be painted. The total area to be painted is 120 m .
2
One litre of paint will cover 6 m of the wall.
How many litres of paint will be needed, if the walls are painted using 2 coats of paint?
amount of paint = _______ L

(2 marks)

17.
12. Concrete costs $300 per cubic metre. How much will it cost to concrete a driveway
20 m long, 3 m wide to a depth of 15 cm as shown below?
20 m
15 cm
3m
cost = $ _______
(3 marks)
30
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18.
STRAND 3 STATISTICAL RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS [14 marks]
1. 8% of the population in a village is aged over 65. How many people aged over 65
should be included in a sample of 150 people for a survey?
A. 10
B. 12
C. 15
D. 65 (1 mark)
Use the following information to answer Questions 2 and 3.
A survey of the expenditure per week of a sample of 10 households in a village produced

the data shown in the table below.
Weekly expenditure ($) 200 300 400 500 600
Number of households 2 1 3 2 2
2. The mean weekly expenditure is $ 410.

The number of households which has weekly expenditure of more than the mean is
A. 3
B. 4
C. 6
D. 7 (1 mark)
3. (a) Find the median weekly expenditure.
median = _______
(1 mark)
(b) Give an interpretation of the value of the median found in part (a).
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________ (1 mark)

19.
The table below shoes the income per week of a random sample of 20 households in
a village.
Income Frequency Midpoint fx

($) f x
600 – 700 3 650 1950
700 – 800 5 750 3750
800 – 900 9 850 7650
900 – 1000 3 950 2850
4. (a) In which interval does the mode of this distribution lie? ______________
(1 mark)
(b) Give an interpretation of the modal interval found in part (a).
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________ (1 mark)
5. (a) Calculate the mean weekly income using the formula x 

f x
f
mean weekly income = $_______

(2 marks)
(b) The true value for the mean weekly income is $820.
Explain why this is different from your answer in part (a).
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________ (1 mark)
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20.
6. The table given below gives the results of a household survey.
2
Family size Number of families fx (x  x)2 f (x  x)
x f
2 5 10 4 20
3 20 60 1 20
4 15 60 0 0
5 10 50 1 10
6 10 60 4 40
7 0 0 - 0
(a) Find the range of the family size.
range = _______
(1 mark)
(b) Calculate the standard deviation of the family size using the formula
 f x  x 
2
s
f
s = _______
(2 marks)

21.
7. The pie chart shows the time Jill spent working in his garden one week.
c weeding
digging 60
150
planting
Jill spent 2 hours weeding.

How much time did he spend planting?
time = _______ hours

(2 marks)
14
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22.
STRAND 4 APPLIED MEASUREMENT [16 marks]
Part of an electricity bill of a family is shown below.
Electricity usage and service calculation 06-April-2022 to 06-May-2022
TARIFF READING METER READING USAGE BIILED

DESCRIPTION TYPE NUMBER kWh DAYS
PRESENT PREVIOUS
Domestic Normal 43679 P 500 150 30
1. The value of the PRESENT reading , P, is
A. 150 kWh
B. 180 kWh
C. 530 kWh
D. 650 kWh (1 mark)
2. For the period covered by this bill, the average electricity consumption per day was
A. 5 kWh
B. 9 kWh
C. 150 kWh
D. 500 kWh (1 mark)
3. A map of a local area has been drawn using a scale of 1 : 100

A distance of 1 cm on the map represents a real distance of
A. 0.1 m
B. 1 m
C. 10 m
D. 100 m (1 mark)

23.
4. A 0.1 kW light bulb is turned on for 12 hours.
(a) Calculate the energy consumed by the bulb in kilowatt-hours
energy consumed = _______ kWh

(1 mark)
(b) Given that
 1 kWh costs 34.01c and

 VAT is charged at 9%,
calculate the total cost of using the bulb.
total cost = _______ c

(2 marks)
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24.
5. A map has a scale of 1 cm = 50 m
(a) Two shops are 10 cm apart on the map.

What is the actual distance between the two shops in metres?
actual distance = _______ m

(1 mark)
(b) Two farms are 350 m apart.

How far apart are the two farms on the map in centimetres?
distance on the map = _______ cm

(1 mark)
6. A carpenter bought a carton of 6-inch galvanised nails.

Given that 1 inch = 2.54 cm, find the length of a nail in centimetres.
6 inches = _______ cm
(1 mark)

25
7. The following diagram is the result of a traverse survey of a rice field.

B
AC = 30 m
40 m
BC = 40 m
30 m CD = 20 m
A C
20 m DF = 55 m
D E DE = 50 m
50 m
55 m
The fertilizer used for this field comes in 4 kg bags. The fertiliser should be used at a rate
of 0.3 kg per square metre.
How many bags of fertiliser need to be purchased to cover this field?
number of bags of fertiliser = _______

(3 marks)
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26.
8. A surveyor needs to determine the height of a building. He measures the angle of elevation
of the top of the building from two points which are 15 m apart as shown in the diagram
below. The surveyor’s eye level is 1.6 m above the ground.
C building
g
y h
A 30 B 6 D
15 m x
1.6 m
y
(a) From  ACD : x   15
tan 30
By considering  BCD , show using the tangent ratio that
y
x
tan 60
(1 mark)

27.
(b) Solve for y by equating the two expressions from part (a) as shown below:
y y
  15
tan 60 tan 30
y = _______ m
(2 marks)
(c) Hence find the height, h, of the building.
h = _______ m
(1 mark)
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, HERITAGE & ARTS

STRANDS MARKS SUGGESTED TIME

TOTAL 100 180 minutes

YOU MUST HAND IN THIS BOOKLET TO THE SUPERVISOR BEFORE

For official use only Mark

COPYRIGHT: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, HERITAGE & ARTS, FIJI, 2022.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

For example: Which expression can be used to convert a speed of 3 metres

For example: Which expression can be used to convert a speed of 3 metres

OTHER TYPES OF QUESTIONS

© MEHA, FY12CE 2022: LIFE MATHEMATICS

STRAND 1 SOCIAL MATHEMATICS [40 marks]

His new hourly rate will therefore be

How much interest will she get each year?

(i) Calculate the deposit for this hire-purchase agreement.

total interest = $ _______

(iii) Determine the monthly payments.

monthly payments = $ _______

© MEHA, FY12CE 2022: LIFE MATHEMATICS

weekly earnings = $__________

(b) Calculate the overtime rate.

overtime rate = $__________

How many hours of overtime did Ryan work last week?

overtime = __________ hours

(b) Mere’s monthly budget is shown below.

Total Expenses $950

(i) Find Mere’s savings per month.

number of months = ________

© MEHA, FY12CE 2022: LIFE MATHEMATICS

8. Ryana and Manoa go shopping in a shop that is advertising the following:

SALE! SALE! SALE!

amount paid = $________

amount paid = $_______

© MEHA, FY12CE 2022: LIFE MATHEMATICS

1 FJD = 0.69 NZD

(a) He changes 1000 Fiji Dollars into New Zealand Dollars.

amount = _______ NZD

amount = _______ FJD

Kara’s share = $_______ Maria’s share = $_______

© MEHA, FY12CE 2022: LIFE MATHEMATICS

(a) What is the monthly interest rate for Sala’s investment?

monthly rate = _______ %

(c) How much interest does Sala earn in 3 months?

interest earned = $ _______

12. Joe purchased a radio for $218 inclusive of 9% VAT.

Option 1: 1 can (375 ml) for $1.20

net pay = $__________

STRAND 2 MEASUREMENT [30 marks]

3. A farmer delivered 36 890 kg of sugarcane to a sugar mill.

(a) Given that 1 tonne = 1000 kg, convert 36 890 kg to tonnes.

36 890 kg = _________ tonnes

gross farm income = $ _______

4. Fiji is 2 hours ahead of Sydney, Australia. Ignore daylight saving times.

(a) What is the time in Sydney when it is 12.00 pm in Fiji?

Sydney time = _______

What time will it be in Fiji when he arrives?

Fiji time = _______

5. A garden hose can fill a 4-litre bucket in 30 seconds.

rate of flow = _______ L / h

(a) 1.00 pm to 24-hour time.

(b) 1745 to 12-hour time.

© MEHA, FY12CE 2022: LIFE MATHEMATICS

7. The dimensions of a garage floor are shown below.

Kara’s share = $_ Maria’s share = $_