Math Exam: Grade 7 ISCE

Section 1 (10 x 2 = 20)

1. Does squaring ANY number always result in a bigger number? Justify!
2. The 3rd power of a number's 4th root is 64. Find the number.
3. What percentage discount should be offered if the selling price is to be one-seventh
lower than the marked price?
4. Calculate 100.5 X 98 using special products
2

5. Factorise: (i) 12 ab 2+14 a 2 b (ii) 49(d +c) +56(d +c)

6. Solve for f :

f
1
+4( f 1)=
2
3

7. Which of these lines pass through the origin? How do you know?

3 x+2=0
2
x+3 y=7
3
4 y=2.5 x
y=abx 2
6
y=0
7

8. Find the angle which is 20 degrees less than 30% of its supplement.
9. Mention all types of quadrilaterals.
10. 3 litres of paint is needed to coat a solid cube of side 'a'. How much paint will be
needed to coat a cube of side '2a'?

Section 2 (10 x 3 = 30)

1. What's the smallest number that (i) 10585 and (ii) 7 423135 need to be divided
by in order to make them perfect cubes?
2. Calculate the percentage of marked price (with respect to cost price) if discount of
15% is to be advertised, and a profit of 10% needs to be made.

3x
3p
)} (
) ]
3. Simplify: [{(
9p
4y
4. (i) If a

4x y
4
81 p

1
1
4
= 2 , find a + 4 ;
a
a

(ii) What should be added to this expression to make it a perfect square? :

2

169 b + 78 ab
5. Factorise this: 24ab 20cd 60ad + 8bc
6. Half the sum of 4 consecutive odd numbers is equal to 2 more than twice the second
odd number. Find the 4 odd numbers.
7. Construct a right angled triangle whose largest side is 7 cm and another side is 4 cm.
8. Construct a quadrilateral whose diagonals are 9 cm and 6 cm long and given that
they bisect each other at 60 degrees.
9. Find the mean shirt size of men in a certain sample from the given data.
Size (in cm)

40

42

38

45

Frequency

10

15

14

25

10.Construct a quadrilateral that satisfies the following conditions.

3 sides measure 8 cm, 4 cm and 7 cm

The diagonal from the intersection of the sides measuring 8 cm and 4
cm is 6.5 cm long
The other diagonal measures 7.5 cm

Section 3 (10 x 5 = 50)

1. Kim sold her car to Lin at 10% loss. After modifications, Lin sold it to Sue at a
profit of 5%. Lee would offer Sue no more than $15000, which would mean a loss
of 4% for Sue. How much did Kim pay for it?
2. Solve these two linear equations using graph sheets.

y = 3 x+6
3
x = 5+3 y
2

3. Calculate the volume of the following solid.

4. Prove that the sum of angles in a quadrilateral is 360 degrees.

5. Here is some data from 1950:
No. of children per family

Frequency

200 350 100 250

50

50

And here is some data from 1990:

No. of children per family
Frequency

100

50

300

50

300 200

Find the percentage drop in no. of children per family in 1990 as compared to 1950
6. Factorise the following

0.49 x 9 y
2
2
25(h+ j) 16(h j)
2
81 a
25a x

2
9
y

7. Find the values that are blotted given that the average shoe size is 23.63 among 100
customers sampled.

8. Construct a parallelogram whose diagonals measure 7 cm, 5 cm and make a right

angle at their point of intersection.
9. Construct a rectangle given that the smaller sides measure 5 cm each and the
diagonals make an angle of 15 degrees to the larger side.
10. What should be added/subtracted to the following to make them perfect squares?

a +1
2
64 x 24 b x
9 2
x 6xy
4
2 2
g h +121
2 a+49