WISEBRAIN
ACADEMY
FORM ONE PAPER
MATHS PAPER 1 AUGUST 2025
Form 1 paper 2 hours 30minutes
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer all Questions fromSection A and answer any 3 from Section B
Write your name ON YOUR ANSWER SHEET
Do not write anything on the Question Paper
Do not open the Question Paper until you are told to do so
1. What is the value of a. the 5 in 253
b. the 7 in 367
c. the 2 in 2403 [3]
2. What is the value of a. the 6 in 4,62
b. the 8 in 0,238 [2]
3. Today is Monday. In 23 days time it will be? [1]
4. Starting with the number 519,
a. rearrange its digits to make i. the highest possible number, ii. The lowest
possible number
b. subtract the lowest number from the highest number to give a new three-digit
number. [4]
5. Express the following as product of their prime factors.
a. 18 b. 26 c. 45 d. 75 [4]
6. Calculate the value of the following a. 72 b. 53 c. 23 x 32 [4]
7. Find the HCF of 63 and 90
b. Find the LCM of 12 and 15 [4]
8. How many minutes is it between 22 minutes past 1 o’clock and 13 minutes past
3 o’clock [2]
b. Write 5 397 225 in words
ii. Write 365,067 in words [2]
9. Find the value of the following when x= 6
i. x – 1
ii. 11 + x
iii. x + 5 - x
iv. 6x [4]
10. If x= 2, find the value of
i. 3x
ii. 3x - 1
iii. 17 - 5x
iv. 14/x - 3 [5]
11. Simplify the following
a. 6a + 3a b. 10x + 4x - 8x
c. 4x X 5 d. ½ of 8c [4]
12. Simplify the following
a. 8n - 5 + 2n
b. 18 ÷ 6 - 4 + 3 x 2
c. 3 + 8 x 3 - 15 ÷ 5 [5]
SECTION B: Answer any 3 questions
13. A boy buys 2 packets each containing x biscuits. He eats 6 biscuits. How many
biscuits does he have left?
b) A trader sells x pencils at 10 cents each, y pens at 20 cents each and 5 rubbers
at x each. How much money does the trader get altogether?
c) 9 x 2 - 12 ÷ 2 + 2 =
d) Simplify 6x - 2y - 5y - 3x
e) Simplify 3xy X 9y [10]
14. A shelf 2,66m long is used to stored copies of a textbook. Each textbook is
2,8cm thick. How many books can be stored on the shelf?
b) A train is supposed to start from P at 11.58am and to reach Q at 1.49pm.
how long does the take from P to Q
c) Reduce the following to their lowest terms. i) 12/20 ii) 10/40 iii) 48/60
3 1 1
d) 2 4 + 5 8 - 3 2
[10]
4 1
15. In a class 5 of the students have mathematical instruments. 4 of these
students have lost their protractors. What fraction of students in the class have
protractors?
1 9 11 15 16
b) Which one of the following is not equivalent to 2 i. 18 ii. 12 iii. 30 iv. 32 v.
24
42
c) A motorist travels 108km in 2hrs 15mins. If she travels at a steady speed, find
how far she goes in 1 hour.
1 1 2
d) 5 4 + 1 6 - 3 3
1 3
e) 6 4 X 1 5
[10]
16. During a 1hour radio programme there were 18min of talking, the rest was
music. What percentage of the radio programme was music?
2 4 5 5
b) What is the lowest common denominator of 3 , 5 , 6 and 10
c) 4 pages of a 16 page newspaper are missing. The percentage missing is
d) 12xy ÷ 3x =
e) If x=3, what is the value of 7x - 2x is [10]
17.this is a timetable for the journey from Mafekeng to Bulawayo. Use it to
answer the following quetions
Mafekeng D 1400
Gaborone A 1945
D 1955
Francistown A 0713
D 0723
Plumtree A 0955
D 1005
Bulawayo A 1245
a) Which of the five towns is the train nearest to at midnight?
b) How long does the train take to travel from Gaborone to Plumtree?
c) How long does it take to travel from Mafekeng to Bulawayo
d) How long does it take to travel from Mafekeng to Plumtree [10]
18. 0,7 x 8
ii) 0,6 x 0,3
iii) 0,003 x 0,05
b)express the following as fractions in their lowest terms
i) 0,66
ii) 0,375
iii) 0,725
c)express the following to decimal
6
i) 9
5
ii) 9
3
iii) 11 [10]
