Curro Serengeti Academy Mathematical Literacy/Grade 10

Mathematical Literacy - Grade 10

NOVEMBER EXAM - Paper 2 - 2015
Educator: Mrs L. Bronson Time: 2 hours
Moderator: Dr C. Buys Marks: 100

QUESTION 1

Your friend, Gerald, has asked you to help him with his bank statement. He is sure there are some
errors and some things just do not make sense to him. Help him by answering the questions
following his bank statement shown below.

Mulligan Bank
Mr Gerald de Villiers Account number 23456799
43 Rand Street Your statement for January Claremont Branch
Cape Town 2015 SWIFT address: SBZA TY
7700 66
Date Details Debit Credit Fee Balance
1/1/15 Opening Balance 12 783 56
3/1/15 Deposit 1 000 00 15 00 13 768 56
Payment: Con
5/1/15 876 45 2 50 12 889 61
Cars
Payment: B.
5/1/15 2 000 00 2 50 10 887 11
Benassi
12/1/15 EFT purchase 125 60 1 00 10 760 51
26/1/15 Payment: S. Yusuf 2 600 00 2 50 8 158 01
28/1/15 Salary 11 560 00 19 718 01

(Note: EFT is short for Electronic Funds Transfer)

 The fee for deposits is R2,00 plus R1,00 for every R100,00.
 Stop order payments cost R2,50 regardless of the amount.
 Card purchases cost R1,00 regardless of the amount.
 Rent is Gerald’s biggest expense.

1.1 Gerald is sure that there is a mistake in the fees column. Find and correct it. (3)

1.2 How much rent does Gerald pay each month? (1)

1.3 How much money did Gerald spend this month on bank fees (assuming that the error
has been corrected)? (2)

1.4 Tax of R2 440 has already been deducted from Gerald’s salary. What tax rate
(percentage of his total salary) is he paying? (4)
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1.5 Is Gerald better off or worse off at the end of January? Give a reason for your answer. (1)

Gerald sells cars at a successful dealership. He earns a basic salary of R8 000 per month
plus a commission of R300 for each car that he sells.

1.6 Write down an expression for Gerald’s earnings in a month in which he sells x cars. (2)

1.7 Study the sketch of Gerald’s earnings for up to 15 cars.

Earnings
14 000

12 000
Earnings (Rand)

10 000

8 000

6 000

4 000
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Cars sold

How will the graph change if:

a) Gerald’s commission is increased to R500 per car (2)

b) Gerald’s basic salary is reduced to R7 000 per month? (2)

1.8 Gerald used approximately 19 kilolitres (kℓ) of water in May 2015. Calculate how
much he paid for the water he used in May if the following charges apply: (5)

Domestic water tariffs

First 6 kilolitres Free
7 – 10 kilolitres R3,65 per kℓ
11- 15 kilolitres R4,85 per kℓ
16 – 20 kilolitres R6,09 per kℓ
21 – 40 kilolitres R7,29 per kℓ
> 40 kilolitres R8,65 per kℓ

(Hint: 7 – 10 kilolitres includes the 7 and the 10!)

1.9 What can Gerald expect to pay for 19 kℓ of water in June if the price for water is
increased by 18%? (2)
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QUESTION 2

Sue’s Gran in England gave Sue the following recipe to make pancakes. The problem is that the
ingredients are imperial measurements and Sue’s kitchen scales and measuring jug are all metric.

Pancakes
Useful Conversions
4 oz flour
1 large egg 1 oz (ounce) = 28,3495 grams
½ pint milk 1 pint = 600ml
¼ teaspoon salt

2.1 Help Sue by converting the measurements of flour and milk to metric measurements
using the conversions provided. (2)

2.2 If the above recipe only makes 6 pancakes, how many oz of flour would Sue need to
make 10 pancakes? (2)

2.3 Once cooked, the pancakes can be kept warm in a cool oven of about 210°F.
Convert this to degrees Celsius using the following formula:

°C = 5 (°F – 32). (2)

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QUESTION 3

Sue baked 250 pancakes and sold them for R3,00 each. She calculated that the cost of the
ingredients was 93c per pancake. She also used electricity worth R0,50 to make each pancake.

3.1 Write the cost of the ingredients per pancake in Rands. (1)

3.2 Calculate the profit Sue would make from selling 250 pancakes. (3)

3.3 Use your answer from Q3.2 to calculate how much profit Sue would make if she sold
500 pancakes. (1)

3.4 If Julie left home to deliver the pancakes at 9:35am and returned home at 10:20am,
how long did the delivery take in minutes? (2)

3.5 If Julie decreased her selling price of the pancakes by 30%, what is the new price of 1
pancake? (2)
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QUESTION 4

The map of South Africa below shows the nine provinces. Use the map to answer the questions
that follow.

(Source: Platinum Mathematical Literacy CDROM)

4.1 Use the scale of the map to estimate the distance in real life between Cape Town and
Bloemfontein. (3)

4.2 A friend of yours who once drove from Cape Town to Bloemfontein is sure that your
answer to 4.1 is incorrect. He says that he drove a much greater distance. Explain
why his experience does not agree with your answer to 4.1. (3)

4.3 Use the scale of the map to estimate the area of Swaziland. (4)

4.4 In what direction from Nelspruit does Ulundi lie? (2)

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The table below shows the land area and population of each province. Use the table to answer the
questions that follow.

Province Land area (km2) Population

Eastern Cape 169 580 6 906 200

Free State 129 480 2 965 600
Gauteng 17 010 9 688 100
Kwazulu-Natal 92 100 10 014 500
Limpopo 123 910 5 402 900
Mpumalanga 79 490 3 536 300
Northern Cape 372 889 1 102 200
North West 116 320 3 394 200
Western Cape 129 370 4 839 800

4.5 Which province has the biggest population? (1)

4.6 Which province is the most densely populated? How can you tell? (2)

4.7 Determine the ratio of the area of the biggest province to the smallest province.
Round off to the nearest whole number. (3)
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QUESTION 5

A group of people were asked about which reality TV show they prefer. Study the pie chart shown
below and answer the questions that follow.

Reality TV shows

The Amazing
Face
?? Big Sister
35%

The Appendix
25%
Popeye Dolls
??

5.1 What percentage of the people surveyed preferred The Amazing Face? (2)

5.2 What percentage preferred Popeye Dolls? (2)

5.3 5 people preferred The Appendix. How many people were surveyed? (3)

5.4 Use your answer to 5.3 to calculate how many of the people surveyed preferred
Big Sister. (3)

5.5 Big Sister had more votes than the others. Does this mean that Big Sister is a clear
winner? Give a reason for your answer. (2)

5.6 If the pie chart was drawn with a diameter of 6,2 cm, find the area of the Big Sister
segment. (4)

5.7 In an episode of Big Sister, one of the girls entertained the “sisters” with a card trick.
She used a pack of 52 cards and asked a girl to pick a card at random and keep it
(she did not put it back into the pack).
She then asked another girl to pick a card. What is the probability that the second
card picked was an ace? (2)
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QUESTION 6

A factory produces toffees. The dimensions of the large toffees are shown below:

Useful formulas:

V = πr²h
SA = 2πr(r + h)

6.1 Find the volume of the toffee. (4)

6.2 Find the surface area of the toffee (i.e. how much wrapping is needed). (4)

With smaller toffees, it is very hard to control the exact amount of toffee. This is because toffee
is very difficult to work with. To monitor toffee production, a supervisor determined the mass of
a batch of 160 toffees. The results are shown in the histogram below.

Variation in toffee mass

100
Number of toffees

80

60

40

20

0
28 to 32 33 to 37 38 to 42 43 to 47 48 to 52
Mass (grams)

The target mass for each small toffee is 40 g.

6.3 How many toffees has a mass of 32 grams or less? (2)

6.4 What percentage of the toffees were within 2 grams of the target mass? (3)

6.5 What is the median mass range? (2)

6.6 What percentage of the toffees were 8 grams or more too heavy or too light? (4)

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6.7 What is the probability of picking a toffee from the batch that is 33-37g? (2)

6.8 Would the company gain or lose money by consistently making the toffees too big?
Give a reason for your answer. (2)

6.9 Do you think that the factory is doing a good job of producing toffees of the right
mass? Give a reason for your answer. (2)
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End of exam – Well done 