Mock Test-Cambridge Lower Secondary Checkpoint

Note: 1. Geometrical instruments and calculator may be required

2. Sufficient space is provided in the Question paper. Please write your answers in
given space

3. There are 27 pages in this Question paper.

Time: 2 hours Marks: 100

Q1. Pierre buys 56 litres of fuel for $103.60. Carlos buys 40 litres of the same fuel. Work out
how much Carlos pays. [2]

Q2. Aman has a fair dice.

a) Find the probability of getting a multiple of 2. [1]

b) He throws a different six-sided dice 100 times. The table shows following results.

Number 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 24 10 15 9 20 22

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 What is the relative frequency of getting a multiple of 2? [1]

Q3. Following parallelogram is given –

a) Find the perimeter in terms of x. [1]

b) If the perimeter if 62 cm, find the length of its longer side. [3]

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Q4. Rotate the given shape by 90° Clockwise about point C. [1]

Q5. A has coordinates (2, ‒2). B has coordinates (10, 14). C is the midpoint of AB. D is the
midpoint of CB. Find the coordinates of D. [3]

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Q6. Write the nth term of the following sequence – [2]

4, 13, 28, 49, 76

Q7. Here are the details of a flight from London to Hong Kong. [2]

The time in Hong Kong is few number of hours ahead of the time in London. Work out the
number of hours ahead.

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Q8. The scatter graph shows the value (thousands of dollars) and the age (years) of eight cars.
A ninth car has a value of 11 thousand dollars and is 5 years old.

(a) Plot the information for the ninth car on the grid [1]

(b) Find the median age of the nine cars. [1]

(c) Describe the relationship between the value of a car and its age. [1]

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Q9. a) Carlos has some toy bricks. Each brick is either red or blue.

The ratio of red bricks to blue bricks is 3 : 4. Draw a ring around the fraction of the bricks that
are blue. [1]

1/3 3/4 4/3 4/7

b) Gabriella also has some toy bricks. Her bricks are either yellow or green. The ratio of
yellow to green bricks is 4 : 1 She has 50 bricks altogether. Work out how many green bricks
Gabriella has. [1]

Q10. The values of x and y are inversely proportional. Complete the table by filling in the
missing number. [2]

x 3 6 1
y 12 18

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Q11. Find the total area of given shape which contains two parallelograms and one triangle. [3]

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Q12. In the given graph, points A, B and C are given. Find coordinates of D such that ABCD
is a square. [2]

Q13. Max has 6 cards labelled with letters, he draws one card at a time. [2]

a) Write down all the possible outcomes-

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 b) What is the probability of drawing a card with letter ‘C’

Q14.Gabriella is 110 cm tall. Pierre is 154 cm tall. Gabriella’s mass : Pierre’s mass is 3 : 8.
The value of their total mass, in kg, is 1/4 of the value of their total height, in cm. Find mass of
Gabriella and Pierre. [3]

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Q15. Angelique leaves home at 09:30 to go for a walk. The graph shows information about
her walk.

She walks 8 km, stops for a rest and then returns home the same way.

(a) Work out her speed on the return part of her journey.(in Km/h) [1]

(b) Carlos is Angelique’s brother. He leaves home at 10:00 He walks at 6 km/h in the same
direction as Angelique. He walks for 90 minutes. Draw a line on the graph to show his walk.
[1]

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(c) Estimate the time when Angelique and Carlos meet. [1]

Q16. A hamster eats 2/7 of a bag of carrots each day. Work out how many days it takes the
hamster to eat 8 whole bags of carrots. [2]

Q17. Hassan plays cricket. The table shows the number of catches he makes in 50 games.

a) Use the table to estimate the probability that he makes exactly one catch in the next
game he plays. [1]

b) Write down the modal number of catches. [1]

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 c) Find the median number of catches. [1]

Q18. Mike conducts an experiment to find out if cars drive at different speeds on different days.
He collects data about the speed of cars on the road between 12 pm and 1 pm on two different
days. His data is shown in the back to back stem-and-leaf diagram.

a) Work out the difference in speed between the fastest car on Monday and the fastest car
on Thursday. [1]

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 b) Find out which day has higher mean speed [1]

c) Mike concludes that the speed of cars is lower when there are more cars on the road.
Explain how the data supports Mike’s conclusion. [1]

Q19. Carlos, Rajiv, Samira and Naomi share a bag of sweets. Carlos eats 2/5 of the sweets.
Rajiv eats 1/6 of the sweets. Samira and Naomi share the rest of the sweets equally. Work out
the fraction of the sweets that Samira gets. [3]

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Q20. Complete this statement using consecutive whole numbers. [1]

Q21. Oliver draws two pie charts that show the favourite subjects of students from two different
schools. School A has 200 students. School B has 120 students.

Oliver says that the same number of students in School A and in School B said maths is their
favourite subject. Is Oliver correct? Show your working. [2]

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Q22. Yuri is 1.6 m tall and Lily is 140 cm tall. Write down the ratio of Yuri’s height to Lily’s
height. Give your answer in its simplest form. [2]

Q23. The diagram shows 5 angles. PS and RT are straight lines. (2)

Find all angles

a……….. b……….. c………. d………

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Q24. Tick ( ) to show whether each of these facts about the line y = 3x – 2 is true or false. [2]

Q25. A tap fills a container with water at a rate of 0.25 litres per second. It takes 7 minutes to
fill the container from empty. Work out the amount of water in the full container. [2]

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Q26. Find the slope and intercept of the line :- 2x+ 4y = 15. [2]

Q27. Find x:- [1]

Q28. Round to two significant figures. [2]

16872 …………………………..

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Q29. D is directly proportional to T. When T = 3, D = 36

(a) Find the formula connecting D and T. [1]

(b) Find T when D is 66 [1]

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(c) Draw the graph of the relationship between D and T for 0 ≤ T ≤ 10 [1]

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Q30. Here are the coordinates of five points. Cross ( X ) the point that is not on the line with
equation y = 5x – 3 [2]

Q31.Here are some currency exchange rates.

1 US dollar = 7.76 HK dollars

1 US dollar = 1.47 NZ dollars

Work out the value of 1000 HK dollars in NZ dollars. [2]

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Q32. Aiko is investigating the question how did the area of forest in South America change
between 1990 and 2005? She finds these pie charts for the years 1990 and 2005 on the internet.

They show the proportion of the world’s total forest area in each continent. They also give the
total area of forest in the world.
Use the information in the pie charts to find the decrease in the area of forest in South America
from 1990 to 2005. [3]

…………...…Million hectares

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Q33.A candle loses 22.4 cm of height when it burns for 7 hours. An identical candle burns for
4 hours. Work out how much height the candle loses. [2]

Q34.There are 280 students in Year 10. Half of the students are boys. 155 of the students get a
grade of A, B or C in their mathematics test. 61 girls get a grade of D, E or F.

a) Complete the table. [2]

b) A student is chosen at random from Year 10 Write down the probability that the student
is a girl with a grade D, E or F. [1]

Q35. The term-to-term rule of a sequence is multiply by 3. The fourth term of the sequence is
54. Work out the first term of the sequence. [1]

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Q36. The diagram shows some two-dimensional shapes. [2]

Q37. The ratio of boys to girls in a school is boys : girls = 4 : 3 One day, 18 girls are absent
from school. This represents 5% of all the girls in the school. Calculate the total number of
students in the school. [3]

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Q38. A man has a mass of 120 kg. A bus has a mass of 17 tonnes. A rhinoceros beetle can
lift an object 850 times its own body mass. Work out the number of buses the man could lift
if he could lift 850 times his own body mass. [2]

Q39. Here is a kite. (3)

BC = 5 cm, CD = 15 cm and AC = 6 cm. AC and BD are perpendicular. Find the length of BD.

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Q40.Harry leaves his house H and goes for a run.

He first runs 5.8 km on a bearing of 38° to point P. He then runs 7.5 km on a bearing of 170°
to point Q.

a) Draw a scale drawing to show Harry’s journey. Use a scale of 1 : 100000. Harry finally
runs from Q straight home. [2]

b) Find the bearing he runs travelling home from Q. [1]

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 c) Harry says he ran a total distance of more than 20 km. Is he correct? [1]

Show how you found your answer.

Q41. 100 people were asked which pets they have.

• 32 people in total have a cat

b) How many people just have a dog? [1]

c) How many people just have a cat? [1]

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Q42. A baker gets a supply of 120 kg of flour each day. He uses all of this flour every day by
baking some small loaves of bread and some large loaves of bread.
A small loaf uses 400 grams of flour.

A large loaf uses 800 grams of flour.

a) He forms the function 400x + 800y = 120 to represent this situation. Write down the
mistakes baker has made in forming this function. [1]

b) Form a correct function to describe this situation. [1]

c) If he makes 60 small loaves, find number of large loaves he can make [1]

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