Bridge Programme P6 to S1 Junior Secondary Mathematics in Action

Answers
Exercise 1 Arithmetic Operations 5 2 7 1
7. (a)   
6 3 12 2
1. 12 + 70 = 82 2. 2000 – 106 = 1894
1 1 1
3. 97 – 48 + 23 = 72 4. 30 × 5 – 38 = 112 (b) 1  1.15  1  0.5   0.12
4 16 8
5. (12 + 4) × 8 = 128 6. (35 + 17) ÷ 13 = 4
8. 4.8 9. 60
7. (30 – 14) + 20 = 36 8. 28 ÷ 4 + 16 × 4 = 71
10. 9 11. 1.92
9. 50 – 45 ÷ 9 = 45 10. 10
1 1
11. 70 12. 3317 12. 13.
2 6
13. 160 14. 177
7 10
15. 36 16. 41 14. 15. 1
180 81
17. 34 18. False
16 49
19. False 20. True 16. 17.
45 72
21. True
5 1
22. (a) 56 (b) 72 18. 1 19.
6 3
(c) 150 (d) 120
3
23. (a) 6 (b) 4 20. 0.25 L 21.
7
(c) 27 (d) 6
22. $14.4 23. $92.5
24. 87 25. $15
24. $50 25. $75.4
26. $36 27. 2 kg
12
28. $152 29. $80 26.
35
30. 16
31. 1:45 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 9:15 p.m.

Exercise 3 Approximations

Exercise 2 Decimals and Fractions 1. (a) 6000 (b) 300

(c) 0.5 (d) 1.2
1. (a)  (b)  (c) 
(e) 850 (f) 6000
(d)  (e)  (f) 
(g) 3500 (h) 15 000
3 8 (i) 10 000 (j) 50 000
2. (a) (b) (c) 3
10 9
2. (a) exact value (b) approximate value
11 3 5 (c) exact value (d) approximate value
3. (a) (b) 3 (c) 15
20 4 8
4. (a) 0.49 (b) 3.125 (c) 1.08
5. (a) < (b) > (c) <
6. (a) 0.969 < 6.7 < 8.03 < 10.34
(b) 3.06 < 3.6 < 30.6 < 36

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3. 2. a + 10 3. b–7
Number 8637 742 218 37 425 99 999
Correct to the 4
nearest ten thousand
10 000 740 000 40 000 100 000 4. 5c 5.
Correct to the
d
9000 742 000 37 000 100 000
nearest thousand
6. a + 5.5 7. b – 10
Correct to the
8600 742 200 37 400 100 000
nearest hundred
Correct to the 50
8640 742 220 37 430 100 000 8. 3y 9.
nearest ten k
4. 10. 25m2 11. 7
Number 3.4637 0.3389 6.406 92 0.9999
12. 173 13. 19
Correct to the
3 0 6 1
nearest one 14. 60 15. 9
Correct to 1 decimal
3.5 0.3 6.4 1.0 5 5
place 16. 17.
Correct to 2 decimal
3.46 0.34 6.41 1.00 18. 35 19. 7
places
Correct to 3 decimal 3.9 1.5
3.464 0.339 6.407 1.000 20. 21.
places
22. 4.61 23. x + 25 = 59
5.
24. y + 1 = 15 25. p – 7 = 12
2 1 5 7 15
Fraction 3 1 8
3 3 8 15 4 26. 130z = 3380 27. 100 – 4d = 16
28. 2[12 + (12 – a)] = 42
Correct to the
1 3 2 8 4
nearest one 29. 35 30. 65
31. $5.4 32. 32
6. (a) 7m (b) 500 mL
33. $3120
(c) $163.9 (d) 8 kg
7. (a) 6 (b) 5
(c) 28 (d) 2
Exercise 5 Percentages
8. (a) 1200 (b) 200
(c) 20 000 (d) 5 1. (a) 20% (b) 37.5%
(The answers of Q9 − 15 are for reference only.) (c) 50%
9. $20 10. 180 kg 2.
Percentage 85% 25% 70% 12.5% 320%
11. 4800 12. 6300
17 1 7 1 1
13. 1 500 000 14. 20 Fraction 3
20 4 10 8 5
15. $400
Decimal 0.85 0.25 0.7 0.125 3.2

Exercise 4 Basic Algebra and 1 2

3. (a)  12%  0.1 (b) 46%  4  4.6
8 5
Simple Equations
.

4. (a) 65% (b) 70%

1. Alegebraic Equation 5. (a) 81 (b) 125
expression
(a) 5b + 4  6. (a) 0.8 (b) 1.5

(b) 7c + 3 = 17  (c) 12 (d) 40

7. 72 8. 25%
(c) 3d 2 + 8d = 1 
9. 48 10. 70%
(d) x2 − 100 
11. 63 mL 12. $270
2
(e) m − 6n = 7  13. 55% 14. 84%
3
15. 24.24 cm 16. 17

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17. (a) 80% (b) 20% Exercise 8 Data Handling
18. 20%
1. (a) broken-line graph (b) broken-line graph
19. (a) 77% (b) 200
(c) bar chart (d) bar chart
20. 81 21. 10%
(e) broken-line graph
2.

Exercise 6 Shape and Space

1. a : obtuse angle, b : reflex angle,

c : acute angle, d : right angle
2. (a)  (b) 
(c)  (d) 
3. (a)  (b) 
(c)  (d) 
4. (a) equilateral triangle (b) trapezium
3. (a) Monday, 240 mm (b) Saturday, 540 mm
(c) pentagon (d) hexagon
(c) 2140 mm
5. (a) (b)
4. (a) $220 000 (b) September
(c) March and April
5. (a) Cooking (b) 17
6. (a) cylinder (b) sphere
(c) Book store A, 46
(c) cone (d) triangular pyramid
7. square, 8, 12, 6
8. triangular prism, 6, 9, 5
9. quadrilateral pyramid, 5, 8, 5

Exercise 7 Perimeters, Areas and

Volumes
1. 44 2. 50
3. 129 4. 324
5. 160 6. 270
7. 1680 m 8. 200

9. 40 10. 24 cm2

11. 21 cm2 12. 216 cm3

13. 84 000 cm3 14. 4 cm
15. 5 cm 16. 37.68 m
17. 30 cm2 18. 2 cm3
19. 6m

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