SUMMARY OF PEP MATHEMATICS
This summary is designed to help the student answer PEP exam questions. Written by a PEP private tutor who knows how GSAT questions are structured, the questions usually asked and responses required for PEP exam questions. Each topic of PEP Mathematics has been covered with at least one question.
(Just about ten hours to go through. Questions/answers written by Janice Gaynor. Copyright © 2026. All rights reserved.)
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1) Choose the cardinal numbers:
(i) sixth (ii) nine (iii) two (iv) fourth.
o A ii and iii o B iii and iv o C i and iv o D i and ii
2) Which is an even number?
o A 15
o B 5
o C 8
o D 9
3) Choose the set of whole numbers. o A 1,4,9,16… o B 1,2,3,4… o C 0,1,2,3… o D 1,3,5,7…
4) What is 336 in Roman Numerals?
o A DXXXVi
o B CCCXXXiiiiii
o C CCDXXLVi
o D CCCXXXVi
5) What is the Hindu-Arabic numeral for MMDCXLi?
o A 2441 o B 2641 o C 2461 o D 2451
6) Round off 104 to the nearest ten. o A 10 o B 4 o C 110 o D 100
7) Round off 65,803 to the nearest thousand.
o A 60,000 o B 66,000 o C 65,000 o D 6,000
8) Write 83,125 in words. o A Eighty thousand, three thousand and one hundred and twenty five. o B Eighty thousand, three thousand, one hundred and twenty five. o C Eighty three thousand, one hundred and twenty five.
o D Eighty three, one hundred and twenty five thousand.
9) Which is one hundred and thirty thousand and eleven?
o A 1300011 o B 13000011 o C 130011 o D 13011
10) What is the value of 7 in the numeral 1731220?
o A 7000 o B 7
o C 70000 o D 700000
11) What is the product of 36 and 0? o A 1 o B 36
o C 0 o D 360
12) Write 42,306 in expanded form.
o A 42000+300+6 o B 40000+2000+300+6 o C 42000+300++60 o D 4000+2000+300+6
13) Write (5x10x10)+(6x10) in standard form. o A 506 o B 5006 o C 50060 o D 560
14) What is 84 in exponent form?
o A 4X4X4X4X4X4X4X4 o B 8X8X8X8 o C 8X4 o D 8+8+8+8
15) Calculate 63.
o A 18 o B 9 o C 27
o D 216
16) 10,000 is the same as: o A 100 o B 103 o C 104 o D 101
17) Choose the next number in the sequence: 8,32, 42,168,178,712,722… o A 732 o B 2806 o C 2886 o D 2888
18) Which mathematical sentence is true? o A 415
o B 16+2312+6+15 o C 94=6x9 o D 5957
19) What is the value of 3x4x0x2?
o A 24 o B 12 o C 14
o D 0
20) Which statement is true?
o A 30=0 o B 30=1 o C 30=3 o D 30=9
21) Which statement is true?
o A 91=0 o B 91=1 o C 91=9 o D 91=81 22) What is the sum of: 16, 203, 419, 5 and 87? o A 600 o B 700 o C 730 o D 630
23) How much must be added to 2371 to equal 6000?
o A 4371 o B 3629 o C 3628 o D 8371
24) How much greater than 7208 is 10,351?
o A 17,559 o B 3157 o C 3143 o D 3000
25) What is the difference between 4030 and304?
o A 4335 o B 3727 o C 4334 o D 3726
26) 5 X (2 + 9) = 5 X 2 + 5 X 9. This equation indicates which property of multiplication?
o A relative o B distributive o C associative o D commutative
27) 7 x 601=
o A 427 o B 4201 o C 4200 o D 4207
28) 115 X 203=
o A 23,345 o B 22,481 o C 575 o D 602
29) 3170 X 2548=
o A 117,290
o B 25,360
o C 2,536
o D 8,077,160
30) Jim and his father are going to the market to sell bananas. If their truck can be loaded with 152 boxes of bananas on each trip, how many boxes of bananas will they take to the market with six trips?
o A 25 o B 912 o C 158 o D 146
31) 4117 ÷8 =
o A 514 o B 504 o C 514 5/8 o D 514 8/5
32) 50015 ÷5 =
o A 1003 o B 13 o C 10030 o D 10003
33) Mrs. Thompson’s class will be buying her a birthday present. If the gift costs $5,000 and there are 25 children in the class, how much should each child contribute?
o A $2,000 o B $200 o C $20 o D $2
34) $4603 + $54.10 + 2 cents + 5 dollars =
o A $4662.12 o B $4657.17 o C $4662.30 o D $4707.30
35) Timmy saved 10¢ each day in his piggy bank and now has 380 10¢ coins saved up. How much money does he have in dollars and cents?
o A $3.80 o B $38.00 o C $380.00 o D $3,800.00
36) Sandra bought 3 pounds of sweets for her class party. She received $230 change from $500. What was the cost of one pound of sweets?
o A $230 o B $500 o C $90 o D $270 37) Bobby went to the supermarket and bought the following list of items. What will be the total cost?
5 bullas at $15.03 each, 15 boxes of orange juice at 3 boxes for $25, ½ pound of cherries at $250 per pound, 2 ½ pounds of chicken at $120 per pound, ½ dozen apples at $18 per apple. o A $958.15 o B $733.15 o C 428.03 o D 608.15
38) Of the six boxes of soda in the canteen, one contains 28 sodas, another contains 31 sodas, another 30 sodas, another 15, another 18 and another 42. What is the mean number of sodas per box?
o A 164 o B 29 o C 27 o D 30
39) What is the median for this set of data: 13, 17, 12, 20, 19, 22?
o A 18 o B 17 o C 103 o D 19
40) What is the mode of the set of the set of data? 5, 6, 9, 4, 3, 9, 9, 4, 2
o A 3 o B 5
o C 4 o D 9
41) During a five-day collection drive, grade 6 students collected $14,071. What was the mean collection per day?
o A $2,345.17 o B $2,814.20 o C $14,071.00 o D $70,355.00
42) What are the factors of 60? o A 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60 o B 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30
o C 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60 o D 2, 3, 5, 10
43) Give the highest factor of 8 and 12.
o A 2 o B 4 o C 8 o D 12
44) Choose the lowest common multiple of 6 and 4. o A 4 o B 6 o C 12 o D 24
45) Which set contains only prime numbers? o A 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 o B 2, 3, 7, 9, 11 o C 1, 3, 5, 7, 11 o D 2, 3, 7, 11, 13
46) Which is a prime factor of 12? o A 6 o B 1 o C 12
o D 2
47) Choose the composite number. o A 17
o B 11 o C 15 o D 19
48) Which fraction is equivalent to 2/5? o A 8/20 o B 5/5 o C 2/10 o D 5/2
49) Reduce 12/18 to its lowest terms. o A 4/6 o B 2/3 o C 1/18 o D 0/18
50) Which fraction is the largest? o A 1/6 o B 2/3 o C 1/2
o D 11/18
51) Choose the proper fraction. o A 1 5/7 o B 8/7 o C 7/7 o D 6/7
52) Choose the improper fraction. o A 1 5/7 o B 8/7 o C 7/7 o D 6/7
53) Change the following fraction to an improper fraction: 5 1/3. o A 1 3/5 o B 6/3 o C 16/3 o D 4/3
54) 1/4 + 7/12 + 8/9 =
o A 1 13/18 o B 16/25 o C 15/25 o D 17/25
55) 3/4 – 2/13 =
o A 1/17 o B 1/9 o C 31/52 o D 5/9
56) 3 3/16 + 1 1/6 =
o A 4 4/23 o B 4 17/48 o C 4 2/11 o D 4 4/22
57) 8 – 5/6 =
o A 3/8 o B 3/6 C 3/5
D 7 1/6
58) 5 1/4 – 2 3/4 =
o A 7 4/4 o B 2 1/2 o C 3 4/4 o D 3 2/4
59) The total of three fractions is 9. If two of the fractions are 3/1 and 5/1, what is the third fraction?
o A 8/1 o B 1 o C 1/9 o D 8/9
60) In a sports club, 1/12 of the members are in Blue House, 5/12 are in Red House and 2/12 are in Green House. The other group is Yellow House. What fraction of the members are in Yellow House?
o A 1/3 o B 3/4 o C 7/12 o D 8/12
61) 1/2 X 8 = o 1/16 o 4
o 8 1/2 o 8/16
62) 4 2/5 X 7 1/4
o A 3 1/20 o B 11 3/9 o C 28 2/20 o D 31 9/10
63) 3/4 of one year is:
o A 3 months o B 7 months o C 9 months o D 4 months
64) What is the reciprocal of 6 2/9?
o A 8/9 o B 62/9 o C 56/9 o D 9/56 65) What is the reciprocal of 3? o A 1/3 o B 3/3 o C 3/1 o D 1/1
66) 10 8/20 ÷ 2 4/5 =
o A 5 2/4 o B 8 4/15 o C 3 5/7 o D 8 6/9
67) Suzan has 120 sweets. She gives away 1/3 of them. How many sweets are left? o A 360 o B 2/4 o C 40 o D 80
68) Express two weeks as a fraction of the month of September.
o A 7/15 o B 2/30 o C 14/31 o D 2/9
69) What is the value of the underlined digit in the number 13.504?
o A tens o B 50
o C hundredth o D 50th
70) 7 + 2/10 + 5/100 + 608/1000 =
o A 622/1110 o B 7.858 o C 7.25608 o D 7 613/1110
71) Which is the same as 0.02?
o A 1/50 o B 20/100
C 20%
D 0.8
72) Write 5/1000 as a decimal.
o A 1/5000 o B 5000 o C 0.5 o D 0.005
73) Writes 5/8 as a decimal.
o A 8.5 o B 5.8
o C 0.625 o D 0.85
74) Which is the largest decimal?
o A 0.0213 o B 0.61429 o C 0.39999 o D 0.723
75) Round off 3417.9108 to the nearest thousandth.
o A 3000 o B 4000 o C 3417.910 o D 3417.911
76) 5 – 0.942 =
o A 4.058 o B 0.937 o C 0.442 o D 5.942
77) Mr. Jones is looking for a good bargain on the purchase of new entertainment centre. He drives 11.2 km to Modern Look Furniture Store, then he drives another 3.01 km to Exquisite Styles Furniture Store. How far has Mr. Jones driven?
o A 8.21
o B 41.3
o C 14.21
o D 8.19
78) 6.05 X 1000 =
o A 10006.05
o B 6050
o C 6000.05
o D 1605
79) 3 ÷ 100 =
o A 300 o B 33.3 o C 33 1/3 o D 0.03
80) $12,650 was collected from the sale of 100 tickets. What was the cost of each ticket?
o A $12.65 o B $12,650.00 o C $126.50 o D $1,265
81) 1.04 x 5.27 =
o A 73.78 o B 5.4808 o C 548.08 o D 7.378
82) What is the square of 0.02? o A 22 o B 4
o C 0.0004 o D 0.04
83) 0.6 ÷ 0.003 =
o A 0.2 o B 0.002 o C 0.0002 o D 200
84) 1 ÷ 0.25 =
o A 25
o B 4 o C 125 o D 1.25
85) How many times can you get 0.2 from 20? o A 10 o B 100 o C 200 o D 40
86) Write 116% as a fraction.
o A 11 16/100 o B 1.16
o C 16/100 o D 1 4/25
87) Write 26 1/4% as a fraction.
o A 27/70 o B 105/4 o C 21/80 o D 27/4
88) Express 3/15 as a percentage.
o A 15% o B 20% o C 25% o D 30%
89) Write 101% as a decimal.
o A 101.0 o B 0.101 o C 1.01 o D 10.1
90) Write 0.3 as a percentage.
o A 0.3% o B 3% o C 30% o D 300%
91) If eight books cost $4640, what would be the cost of three books?
o A $1,850 o B $1,920 o C $1,630 o D $1,740
92) A jug contains 74.15 ounces of juice. If the juice is poured equally into nine cups, how much juice does each cup contain?
o A 5.49 ounces o B 8.24 ounces o C 7.13 ounces o D 9.76 ounces 93) The circumference of the swimming pool at a high school is 132 metres. What is the diameter?
o A 56 m o B 38 m o C 42 m o D 63 m
94) Write 26047 in expanded notation. o A 20000 + 6000 + 40 + 7 o B 26000 + 40 + 7 o C 20000 + 60 + 47 o D 2000 + 6000 + 0 + 40 + 7
95) Mrs. Williams fried 420 pieces of chicken for the school barbeque in three hours. How many pieces of chicken did she fry per hour?
o A 420 o B 140 o C 1260 o D 3
96) 5N – 21 = 39 ; What is N?
o A 18
o B 16 o C 12 o D 26
97) The length of one page of the newspaper that the school’s newspaper club sells is 16 cm. If the area of one page is 144 cm2, what is its width?
o A 13 cm o B 11 cm o C 4 cm o D 9 cm
98) Mr. Newman purchased twenty dresses for $18,800 to sell in his store. He donated six of them to charity and sold the rest for $1500 each. What was his profit?
o A $2800 o B $2400 o C $2100 o D $2200 99) Wayne has a box of donuts. The box holds twenty-four donuts. If Wayne gives away 3/8 of the donuts to his friends, how many donuts does he have left?
o A 15 o B 12 o C 9 o D 13
100) What is 24% of $120?
o A 24/120 o B 24/100 o C $28.80 o D $5
101) What percentage of 10 years is 10 months?
o A 8 1/3% o B 10/120 o C 10/10% o D 12 1/12
102) 1 – 53% = P ; P =
o A 54% o B 68% o C 52% o D 47%
103) Peter bought a shirt for $600 plus 17 ½% G.C.T. How much did he pay for the shirt?
o A $617.20 o B $895 o C $705 o D $573
104) (21% - 16%) + 3% = M ; M =
o A 2% o B 8% o C 3% o D 5%
105) Decrease $500 by 15%.
o A $75 o B $485 o C $425 o D $515 106) Hot Foot Spot store reduced the price of some pairs of shoes from $1500 to $1200. What was the percentage reduction?
o A 15% o B 25% o C 20% o D 30%
107) Mrs. Simpson increased the price of her gift basket by $250. The original price was $5000. What was the percentage increase?
o A 25% o B 50% o C 10% o D 5%
108) Jemar bought a pencil for $38 and sold it to Rushane for $50. What was Jemar’s percentage profit?
o A 88% o B 32% o C 68% o D 12%
109) Calculate the simple interest gained on $1000 invested for two years at a rate of 25% per year.
o A $250.00 o B $500.00 o C $25.00 o D $50.00
110) There are sixteen good bananas and six bad bananas in the bunch Minna got as a gift from Farmer Morrison. What is the ratio of good bananas to bad ones?
o A 6 o B 16
o C 8:3 o D 6:16
111) 5/6 = n/12 ; n =
o A 10 o B 60 o C 30
o D 72
112) 2:5 = N:15 ; N =
o A 10 o B 3 o C 7
o D 6 113) In the Domino Club, the ratio of girls to boys is 4:5. If there are 24 girls, how many boys are in the club?
o A 20 o B 33
o C 30 o D 19
114) Share $6000 in the ratio 1:2:7 among Sasha, Nianda and Alia. How much does Nianda get?
o A $2000 o B $1200 o C $4300 o D $2247
115) The price of three muffins is $350. What is the price of one muffin?
o A $1050 o B $150.00 o C $116.66 o D $116.67
116) On a spelling test, Sanjay got twenty-one words correct and four words incorrect. What is the ratio of the amount she got correct to the total amount of words? o A 4:21 o B 21:4 o C 21:25 o D 25:21
117) 22 hrs. 16 mins. + 14 hrs. 40 mins. + 10 hrs. 12 mins. = o A 47 hrs. 8 mins. o B 46 hrs. 68 mins. o C 56 hrs. 8 mins.
o D 57 hrs. 8 mins.
118) How many hours and minutes are there between 10:20am – 1:15pm? o 9 hrs. 05 mins. o 11 hrs. 35 mins. o 2 hrs. 55 mins. o 1 hr. 45 mins.
119) Mr. Palmer travelled 0.406 km. How many metres did he travel?
o A 4060 m o B 4.06 m o C 40.6 m o D 406 m 120) What is the perimeter of Deana’s room if its length is 12 m and its width is 8 m?
o A 40 m o B 96 m o C 40 m2 o D 96 m2
121) What is the area of a square field with sides measuring 14 m?
o A 98 m o B 28 m2 o C 196 m2 o D 56 m2
122) What is the area of a triangle-shaped board which has measurements of height 32 cm and base 10 cm?
o A 22 cm2 o B 84 cm2 o C 320 cm2 o D 160 cm2
123) What is the volume of a bottle 6 cm by 15 cm by 8 cm?
o A 29 cm4 o B 29 cm5 o C 720 cm2 o D 720 cm3
124) What is the circumference of a circle that has a radius of 8 cm? Use 3.14 for π.
o A 50.24 cm o B 200.96 cm o C 25.12 cm o D 11.14 cm
125) What type of angle is 106?
o A acute o B obtuse o C right o D reflex
126) An oblique angle:
o A forms right angles o B runs across o C runs up and down o D is slanting
127) Which polygon has seven sides?
o A decagon o B nonagon o C septagon o D octagon
128) What is the size of each angle in an equilateral triangle?
o A 60 o B 90 o C 180 o D 360
129) An isosceles triangle has: o A one angle acute and one right angle o B two equal sides and angles o C three unequal sides and angles o D three acute angles
130) In a right-angled triangle, one angle measures 34. What is the size of the other angle?
o A 56 o B 90 o C 124 o D 60
131) The sum of the angles in a quadrilateral is:
o A 90 o B 60 o C 360 o D 180
132) R ÷ 5 =
o A 5/R o B 5 ÷ R o C R/5 o D R5
133) T – 3.4 = 2.1 ; T =
o A 5.5 o B 1.3 o C 2.1 o D 3.4 134) N/6 = 0 ; N =
o A 60 o B 6
o C 1 o D 0
135) 7K = 63 ; K =
o A 8 o B 9
o C 56 o D 441
136) 2B/8 = 3/4 ; B =
o A 6 o B 3 o C 12 o D 18
137) P = {2,3,6,9} Q = {1,4,5,7} ; What is P∩Q?
o A {4} o B { }
o C {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9}
o D {8}
138) Which tally represents 13? o A IIIIIIIIIIIII o B IIII IIII III o C IIIII IIIII III o D IIIII IIIII III
139) Sheldon spends 15% of his weekly income for travel expense. Sheldon earns $6000 weekly. How much does Sheldon spend on travel?
o A $400 o B $150 o C $585 o D $900
140) 28% of the cake has been cut. How many degrees is that? The cake is round like a circle.
o A 28 o B 128 o C 100 o D 101 141) A man is jogging at the rate of four km per hour. How far will he jog in three hours?
o A 1 km o B 7 km o C 12 km o D 43 km
142) Mom drove to Westmoreland at a speed of forty km per hour in two hours and fifteen minutes. What was the distance she covered?
o A 100 km o B 20 km o C 80 km o D 90 km
143) A bus travelled 240 km in four hours. At what speed did the bus travel?
o A 60 kmph o B 236 kmph o C 244 kmph o D 960 kmph
144) The scale on a map is 1 cm to 4 km. What would be the actual distance between two places if the map shows the distance between them to be 3.5 cm? o A 8.5 km o B 12 km o C 12.5 km o D 14 km
145) What would be the length shown on a map between two cities 75 km apart if the scale on the map is 1 cm = 5 km?
o A 80 km o B 70 km o C 15 km o D 375 km
146) What is the probability of an event that is sure NOT to happen?
o A 100% o B 100 o C 0 o D 1
147) When a die (plural is dice) is thrown once, what is the probability of it showing a number greater than 2?
o A 4
o B 2 o C 1/3 o D 2/3 148) Miss Barrett is in a contest. To win the prize she needs to take a red ball out of the tightly closed bag without looking. If the bag contains five blue balls, six red balls and eight yellow balls, what is the probability that the ball Miss Barrett takes out is a red ball?
o A 13/19 o B 6/19 o C 6% o D 6
149) There are 23 girls and 15 boys in Mrs. Francis’s class. If the school principal picks a class monitor at random, what is the probability that it will be a boy?
o A 15/23 o B 23
o C 23/38 o D 15/38
150) A box contains six plums, two pineapples, nine bananas and three oranges. If Akeem closes his eyes and chooses a fruit at random, what is the probability that he will choose either a pineapple or an orange?
o A 1/10 o B 1/4 o C 3/20 o D 5
GOOD LUCK IN YOUR GSAT EXAMS!
ANSWERS
1) Choose the cardinal numbers: (i) sixth (ii) nine (iii) two (iv) fourth.
• A ii and iii
2) Which is an even number?
• C 8
3) Choose the set of whole numbers.
• C 0,1,2,3…
4) What is 336 in Roman Numerals?
• D CCCXXXVi
5) What is the Hindu-Arabic numeral for MMDCXLi?
• B 2641
6) Round off 104 to the nearest ten.
• D 100
7) Round off 65,803 to the nearest thousand.
• B 66,000
8) Write 83,125 in words.
• C Eighty three thousand, one hundred and twenty five.
9) Which is one hundred and thirty thousand and eleven?
• C 130011
10) What is the value of 7 in the numeral 1731220?
• D 700000
11) What is the product of 36 and 0?
• C 0
12) Write 42,306 in expanded form.
• B 40000+2000+300+6
13) Write (5x10x10)+(6x10) in standard form.
• D 560
14) What is 84 in exponent form?
• B 8X8X8X8
15) Calculate 63.
• D 216
16) 10,000 is the same as:
• C 104
17) Choose the next number in the sequence: 8,32, 42,168,178,712,722…
• A 732
18) Which mathematical sentence is true?
• B 16+2312+6+15
19) What is the value of 3x4x0x2?
• D 0
20) Which statement is true?
• B 30=1
21) Which statement is true?
• C 91=9
22) What is the sum of: 16, 203, 419, 5 and 87?
• C 730
23) How much must be added to 2371 to equal 6000?
• B 3629
24) How much greater than 7208 is 10,351?
• C 3143
25) What is the difference between 4030 and304?
• D 3726
26) 5 X (2 + 9) = 5 X 2 + 5 X 9. This equation indicates which property of multiplication? • B distributive
27) 7 x 601=
• D 4207
28) 115 X 203=
• A 23,345
29) 3170 X 2548=
• D 8,077,160
30) Jim and his father are going to the market to sell bananas. If their truck can be loaded with 152 boxes of bananas on each trip, how many boxes of bananas will they take to the market with six trips?
• B 912
31) 4117 ÷8 =
• C 514 5/8
32) 50015 ÷5 =
• D 10003
33) Mrs. Thompson’s class will be buying her a birthday present. If the gift costs $5,000 and there are 25 children in the class, how much should each child contribute?
• B $200
34) $4603 + $54.10 + 2 cents + 5 dollars =
• A $4662.12
35) Timmy saved 10¢ each day in his piggy bank and now has 380 10¢ coins saved up. How much money does he have in dollars and cents?
• B $38.00
36) Sandra bought 3 pounds of sweets for her class party. She received $230 change from $500. What was the cost of one pound of sweets?
• C $90
37) Bobby went to the supermarket and bought the following list of items. What will be the total cost?
5 bullas at $15.03 each, 15 boxes of orange juice at 3 boxes for $25, ½ pound of cherries at $250 per pound, 2 ½ pounds of chicken at $120 per pound, ½ dozen apples at $18 per apple.
• B $733.15
38) Of the six boxes of soda in the canteen, one contains 28 sodas, another contains 31 sodas, another 30 sodas, another 15, another 18 and another 42. What is the mean number of sodas per box?
• C 27
39) What is the median for this set of data: 13, 17, 12, 20, 19, 22?
• A 18
40) What is the mode of the set of the set of data? 5, 6, 9, 4, 3, 9, 9, 4, 2
• D 9
41) During a five-day collection drive, grade 6 students collected $14,071. What was the mean collection per day? • B $2,814.20
42) What are the factors of 60?
• C 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60
43) Give the highest factor of 8 and 12.
• B 4
44) Choose the lowest common multiple of 6 and 4.
• C 12
45) Which set contains only prime numbers?
• D 2, 3, 7, 11, 13
46) Which is a prime factor of 12?
• D 2
47) Choose the composite number.
• C 15
48) Which fraction is equivalent to 2/5?
• A 8/20
49) Reduce 12/18 to its lowest terms.
• B 2/3
50) Which fraction is the largest?
• B 2/3
51) Choose the proper fraction.
• D 6/7
52) Choose the improper fraction.
• B 8/7
53) Change the following fraction to an improper fraction: 5 1/3.
• C 16/3
54) 1/4 + 7/12 + 8/9 =
• A 1 13/18
55) 3/4 – 2/13 =
• C 31/52
56) 3 3/16 + 1 1/6 =
• B 4 17/48
57) 8 – 5/6 =
• D 7 1/6
58) 5 1/4 – 2 3/4 =
• B 2 1/2
59) The total of three fractions is 9. If two of the fractions are 3/1 and 5/1, what is the third fraction?
• B 1
60) In a sports club, 1/12 of the members are in Blue House, 5/12 are in Red House and 2/12 are in Green House. The other group is Yellow House. What fraction of the members are in Yellow House?
• A 1/3
61) 1/2 X 8 =
• B 4
62) 4 2/5 X 7 1/4
• D 31 9/10
63) 3/4 of one year is:
• C 9 months
64) What is the reciprocal of 6 2/9?
• D 9/56
65) What is the reciprocal of 3?
• A 1/3
66) 10 8/20 ÷ 2 4/5 =
• C 3 5/7
67) Suzan has 120 sweets. She gives away 1/3 of them. How many sweets are left?
• D 80
68) Express two weeks as a fraction of the month of September.
• A 7/15
69) What is the value of the underlined digit in the number 13.504?
• C hundredth
70) 7 + 2/10 + 5/100 + 608/1000 =
• B 7.858
71) Which is the same as 0.02?
• A 1/50
72) Write 5/1000 as a decimal.
• D 0.005
73) Writes 5/8 as a decimal.
• C 0.625
74) Which is the largest decimal?
• D 0.723
75) Round off 3417.9108 to the nearest thousandth.
• D 3417.911
76) 5 – 0.942 =
• A 4.058
77) Mr. Jones is looking for a good bargain on the purchase of new entertainment centre. He drives 11.2 km to Modern Look Furniture Store, then he drives another 3.01 km to Exquisite Styles Furniture Store. How far has Mr. Jones driven?
• C 14.21
78) 6.05 X 1000 =
• B 6050
79) 3 ÷ 100 =
• D 0.03
80) $12,650 was collected from the sale of 100 tickets. What was the cost of each ticket?
• C $126.50
81) 1.04 x 5.27 =
• B 5.4808
82) What is the square of 0.02?
• C 0.0004
83) 0.6 ÷ 0.003 =
• D 200
84) 1 ÷ 0.25 =
• B 4
85) How many times can you get 0.2 from 20?
• B 100
86) Write 116% as a fraction.
• B 1.16
87) Write 26 1/4% as a fraction.
• C 21/80
88) Express 3/15 as a percentage.
• B 20%
89) Write 101% as a decimal.
• C 1.01
90) Write 0.3 as a percentage.
• C 30%
91) If eight books cost $4640, what would be the cost of three books?
• D $1,740
92) A jug contains 74.15 ounces of juice. If the juice is poured equally into nine cups, how much juice does each cup contain?
• B 8.24 ounces
93) The circumference of the swimming pool at a high school is 132 metres. What is the diameter?
• C 42 m
94) Write 26047 in expanded notation.
• A 20000 + 6000 + 40 + 7
95) Mrs. Williams fried 420 pieces of chicken for the school barbeque in three hours. How many pieces of chicken did she fry per hour?
• B 140
96) 5N – 21 = 39 ; What is N?
• C 12
97) The length of one page of the newspaper that the school’s newspaper club sells is 16 cm. If the area of one page is 144 cm2, what is its width?
• D 9 cm
98) Mr. Newman purchased twenty dresses for $18,800 to sell in his store. He donated six of them to charity and sold the rest for $1500 each. What was his profit?
• D $2200
99) Wayne has a box of donuts. The box holds twenty-four donuts. If Wayne gives away 3/8 of the donuts to his friends, how many donuts does he have left?
• A 15
100) What is 24% of $120?
• C $28.80
101) What percentage of 10 years is 10 months?
• A 8 1/3%
102) 1 – 53% = P ; P =
• D 47%
103) Peter bought a shirt for $600 plus 17 ½% G.C.T. How much did he pay for the shirt?
• C $705
104) (21% - 16%) + 3% = M ; M =
• B 8%
105) Decrease $500 by 15%.
• C $425
106) Hot Foot Spot store reduced the price of some pairs of shoes from $1500 to $1200. What was the percentage reduction?
• C 20%
107) Mrs. Simpson increased the price of her gift basket by $250. The original price was $5000. What was the percentage increase?
• D 5%
108) Jemar bought a pencil for $38 and sold it to Rushane for $50. What was Jemar’s percentage profit?
• B 32%
109) Calculate the simple interest gained on $1000 invested for two years at a rate of 25% per year.
• B $500.00
110) There are sixteen good bananas and six bad bananas in the bunch Minna got as a gift from Farmer Morrison. What is the ratio of good bananas to bad ones?
• C 8:3
111) 5/6 = n/12 ; n =
• A 10
112) 2:5 = N:15 ; N =
• D 6
113) In the Domino Club, the ratio of girls to boys is 4:5. If there are 24 girls, how many boys are in the club?
• C 30
114) Share $6000 in the ratio 1:2:7 among Sasha, Nianda and Alia. How much does Nianda get?
• B $1200
115) The price of three muffins is $350. What is the price of one muffin?
• D $116.67
116) On a spelling test, Sanjay got twenty-one words correct and four words incorrect. What is the ratio of the amount she got correct to the total amount of words?
• C 21:25
117) 22 hrs. 16 mins. + 14 hrs. 40 mins. + 10 hrs. 12 mins. = • A 47 hrs. 8 mins.
118) How many hours and minutes are there between 10:20am – 1:15pm? • C 2 hrs. 55 mins.
119) Mr. Palmer travelled 0.406 km. How many metres did he travel?
• D 406 m
120) What is the perimeter of Deana’s room if its length is 12 m and its width is 8 m?
• A 40 m
121) What is the area of a square field with sides measuring 14 m?
• C 196 m2
122) What is the area of a triangle-shaped board which has measurements of height 32 cm and base 10 cm? • D 160 cm2
123) What is the volume of a bottle 6 cm by 15 cm by 8 cm?
• D 720 cm3
124) What is the circumference of a circle that has a radius of 8 cm? Use 3.14 for π.
• A 50.24 cm
125) What type of angle is 106?
• B obtuse
126) An oblique angle:
• D is slanting
127) Which polygon has seven sides?
• C septagon
128) What is the size of each angle in an equilateral triangle?
• A 60
129) An isosceles triangle has:
• B two equal sides and angles
130) In a right-angled triangle, one angle measures 34. What is the size of the other angle?
• A 56
131) The sum of the angles in a quadrilateral is:
• C 360
132) R ÷ 5 =
• C R/5
133) T – 3.4 = 2.1 ; T =
• A 5.5
134) N/6 = 0 ; N =
• D 0
135) 7K = 63 ; K =
• B 9
136) 2B/8 = 3/4 ; B =
• B 3
137) P = {2,3,6,9} Q = {1,4,5,7} ; What is P∩Q?
• B { }
138) Which tally represents 13?
• B IIII IIII III
139) Sheldon spends 15% of his weekly income for travel expense. Sheldon earns $6000 weekly. How much does Sheldon spend on travel?
• D $900
140) 28% of the cake has been cut. How many degrees is that? The cake is round like a circle.
• D 101
141) A man is jogging at the rate of four km per hour. How far will he jog in three hours?
• C 12 km
142) Mom drove to Westmoreland at a speed of forty km per hour in two hours and fifteen minutes. What was the distance she covered?
• D 90 km
143) A bus travelled 240 km in four hours. At what speed did the bus travel?
• A 60 kmph
144) The scale on a map is 1 cm to 4 km. What would be the actual distance between two places if the map shows the distance between them to be 3.5 cm?
• D 14 km
145) What would be the length shown on a map between two cities 75 km apart if the scale on the map is 1 cm = 5 km?
• C 15 km
146) What is the probability of an event that is sure NOT to happen?
• C 0
147) When a die (plural is dice) is thrown once, what is the probability of it showing a number greater than 2?
• D 2/3
148) Miss Barrett is in a contest. To win the prize she needs to take a red ball out of the tightly closed bag without looking. If the bag contains five blue balls, six red balls and eight yellow balls, what is the probability that the ball Miss Barrett takes out is a red ball?
• B 6/19
149) There are 23 girls and 15 boys in Mrs. Francis’s class. If the school principal picks a class monitor at random, what is the probability that it will be a boy?
• D 15/38
150) A box contains six plums, two pineapples, nine bananas and three oranges. If Akeem closes his eyes and chooses a fruit at random, what is the probability that he will choose either a pineapple or an orange?
• B 1/4
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