Question 1s

1. June 2014 ii. If 20 buckets of sand are used, how many buckets of EACH of the
(a) Using a calculator, or otherwise, determine the value of : following will be needed?

i. 5.25 ÷ 0.015

1. Cement

ii. √ 6.5025

2. gravel

iii. 3.142 × 2.236 2 (correct to 3 significant figures)

(c) The cash price of a laptop is $ 1299. It can be bought on hire purchase by
making a deposit of $350 and 10 monthly payments of $120 each.
i. What is the TOTAL hire purchase price of the laptop?

(b) Concrete tiles are made using buckets of cement, sand and gravel mixed in
the ratio 1 ∶ 4 ∶ 6 .
i. How many buckets of gravel are needed for 4 buckets of cement?

ii. How much is saved by buying the laptop for cash?

2. January 2016 (c) Thomas invested $1 498 at 6% simple interest per annum.
(a) Using a calculator, or otherwise, calculate the exact value of
Calculate:
( 3.6 + √51.84 ) ÷ 3.75 i. The interest, in dollars, earned after six months.

(b) The diagram below, not drawn to scale, shows two jars of peanut butter of the same
brand. ii. The total amount of money in his account after 3 years

Which of the jars shown above is the better buy?

Show all working to support your answer.
 iii. How long it will be before his investment earns $449.40. Use the information given below to answer parts (b) and (c)
Randy’s Video Club

Option A Option B
Membership Fee for 1 year: $80 No Membership Fee

Rental Fee: $3.00 per Rental Fee: $5.00 per

video game video game

(b) Carla rents 48 video games during one year.

What is the total cost if she chooses
i. Option A?

3. June 2003
(a) Using a calculator or otherwise, determine the exact value of:
i. (1.7) 2 + (1.3) 2
ii. Option B?

4.8 + 6.9
ii.
1.3 × 0.2
(c) Carla estimates that she will be able to spend $215 for renting video games during ii. Express as a single fraction
the next year. How many video games will she be able to rent using
1 4
i. option A? 22 −
5
3
4

ii. option B?

(b) In this question, use CAN $1.00 = JA $72.50

i. On a vacation in Canada, Steve used his credit card to buy a camera for CAN
$250
What is the value of the camera in Jamaican dollars?

4. June 2008
(a) Using a calculator, or otherwise, determine the exact value of
i. (3.9 × 0.27) + √0.6724
 ii. Steve's credit card limit is JA $30,000. After buying the camera, how many
0.0256
Canadian dollars does he have left on his credit card for spending? ii. √( )
25
giving your answer in standard form.

(b) The basic wage earned by a truck driver for a 40-hour week is $560.00.
i. Calculate his hourly rate.

For overtime work, the driver is paid one and half times the basic hourly rate.
5. June 2009
(a) Using a Calculator, or otherwise, calculate the EXACT value of ii. Calculate his overtime wage for 10 hours of overtime.
2 1
2 + 1
3 5
i. 2
65
giving your answer as a common fraction.

iii. Calculate the TOTAL wages earned by the truck driver for a 55-hour week.
6. January 2010 (c) The ingredients for making pancakes are shown in the diagram below.
(a) Using a calculator, or otherwise, calculate the exact value of
2.76
+ 8.7 2
0.8

(b) In a certain company, a salesman is paid a fixed salary of $3 140 per month plus
an annual commission of 2% on the TOTAL value of cars sold for the year. If the
salesman sold cars valued at $720 000 in 2009, calculate
i. his fixed salary for the year

i. Ryan wishes to make 12 pancakes using the instructions given above.

Calculate the number of cups of pancake mix he must use.

ii. the amount he received in commission for the year

iii. his TOTAL income for the year

ii. Neisha used 5 cups of milk to make pancakes using the same instructions. 7. January 2019
How many pancakes did she make? (a) Evaluate
i. 3.8 × 10 2 + 1.7 × 10 3 , giving your answer in standard form.

1 3
×
2 5
ii. 1 , giving your answer as a fraction in its lowest terms.
3
2

(b) Express the number 6 as a binary number.

(c) John bought a car for $65 000. If the value of the car depreciates by 8% each year, (d) The table below shows the results obtained by a student in her CSEC Maths exam.
how much will the car be worth at the end of 2 years? The maximum mark for each paper is given in the third column of the table.

Determine, as a percentage, the student’s final mark for the Maths exam.
8. January 2020 ii. The stadium is to be renovated with a new seating capacity of 20 790 seats.
(a) Using a calculator, or otherwise, calculate the EXACT value of the following After the renovation, what will be the percentage increase in the number of
1 1 1 seats?
i. 4 × − 1
5 3 4

4.1 − 1.25 2
ii.
0.005

(c) A neon light flashes 5 times every ten seconds. Show that the light flashes 43 200
times in one day.

(b) A stadium currently has a seating capacity of 15 400 seats.

i. Calculate the number of people in the stadium when 75% of its seats are
occupied.
9. June 2017 (b) A store is promoting a new mobile phone under two plans: Plan A and Plan B. The
(a) Calculate the exact value of: plans are advertised as shown in the table below.
1 2 4
i. (4 − 1 ) ÷
3 5 15

i. Calculate the TOTAL cost of a phone under Plan A.

(3.1 − 1.15) 2
ii.
0.005

ii. Determine which of the two plans, A or B, is the better deal.

Justify your answer.
(c) John's monthly electricity bill is based on the number of kWh of electricity that he 10. June 2019
consumes for that month. He is charged $5.10 per kWh of electricity consumed. For (a) Using a Calculator or otherwise, evaluate each of the following:
the month of March 2016, two meter-readings are displayed in the table below. 1 3
2 − 1
4 5
i.
3

i. Calculate the TOTAL amount that John pays for electricity consumption for the
month of March 2016.

ii. 2.14 sin 75°, giving your answer to 2 decimal places.

ii. For the next month, April 2016, John pays $2351.10 for electricity
consumption. Determine his meter-reading at the end of April 2016.
(b) Irma's take-home pay is $4320 per fortnight (every two weeks). Each fortnight iii. All of Irma's savings is used to pay her son’s University tuition cost, which is
Irma’s pay is allocated according to the following table. $150,000. If Irma's pay remains the same and she saves the same amount each
month, what is the MINIMUM number of years that she must work in order to
save enough money to cover her son’s tuition cost?

i. What is Irma’s annual take-home pay? (Assume she works 52 weeks in any
given year.)

ii. Deteremine the amount of money that Irma allocates to rent each month.