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MAURITIUS EXAMINATIONS SYNDICATE

The Certificate of Primary Education Examination

October 2014

MATHEMATICS
(Subject Code No. 120)

Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

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contains 55 questions printed on 16 - 21
13 pages numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13 and 14. 22 - 29
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2. Write your Index Number on the
question paper in the space 38 - 45
provided above.
46 - 48

3. You should not use red ink in 49 - 50

answering questions.
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4. All working must be clearly shown
in the space provided for each B 52
question.
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6. Attempt all questions. 55

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SECTION A (60 MARKS)

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1. What number is represented on the abacus? H T U

Answer : ...............................................................................

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2. Write in figures: Four hundred and eighteen

Answer : ..................................................................................

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3. Work out: 324
+ 512
...................................................

Answer :
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4. What fraction of the diagram is shaded?

Answer : ..................................................................................

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5. Work out: 759
 134
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Answer :
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6. Write the next term in the sequence.

7, 17, 27, ………………………

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7. How many sides does a kite have?

Answer : sides
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8. Work out: 321

x 3
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Answer : ....................................................

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9. Arrange the numbers 524, 452, 542 and 425 in order, starting with the smallest.

Answer : …………....…… , ………….……… , ……..……..…… , …………....……

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A B
10. Find the perimeter of the square ABCD.

Answer : cm
..................................................................................

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11. Convert 15 kg into grams.

Answer : grams
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12. Find the area of the rectangle PQRS. P Q

6 cm
2
Answer : cm
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S 9 cm R
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2
13. Express as a decimal.
10

Answer : ...............................................................................

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14. The cost of 6 bananas is Rs 18. Find the cost of 1 banana.

Answer : Rs ....................................................
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15. Calculate the average of 4 and 10.

Answer : ............................................................

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For each question from numbers 16 to 45 circle the letter which shows the correct
answer. An example has been done for you.

6 x 2 =
A 8

B 10

C 12

D 14

16. The value of 3 in 8324 is 17. Which one of the following shapes has
no line of symmetry?
A 3 units
A B
B 3 tens

C 3 hundreds

D 3 thousands C D

144 9 2 =
18.18. 19. (4 x 100) + (2 x 1000) + 5 =
A 92 A 2405
B 81 B 2450
C 18 C 4205
D 11 D 4250

20. 7•53 x = 7530 21. Which one of these numbers is a prime

number?

A 10 A 9

B 100 B 29

C 1000 C 39

D 10000 D 49

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22. Which one of the following fractions is 23. 144 is 8 times

2
not equivalent to ?
3

4 40 A 18
A B
6 60
B 136

20 6 C 152
C D
30 8
D 1152

24. 5•07  2•5 = 25. What percentage of the figure is

shaded?

A 2•57 A 9%

B 3•2 B 11%

C 3•57 C 45%

D 7•57 D 55%

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26. In a class there are 18 boys. There 27. of a straight angle =
are 7 girls fewer than boys. What is 3
the number of girls in the class?

A 11 A 180o

B 25 B 120o

C 29 C 60o

D 43 D 30o

28. Express 300 mL as a fraction of 1 L. 29. 7 pencils cost Rs 63.

What is the cost of 21 pencils?

1 3
A B A Rs 9
3 10
B Rs 30
3 3 C Rs 147
C D
100 1000
D Rs 189

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30. What is the highest common factor 31. The perimeter of the triangle XYZ is
(H.C.F.) of 28 and 42? 16 cm. What is the length of XY?

A 2 Y
A 7 cm

B 7 B 9 cm
4 cm
C 14 C 11 cm
X Z
D 84 D 12 cm 5 cm

32. P Q 33. A rope is 6 m long. What is the

maximum number of pieces of 30 cm
1 cm2 long that can be cut from the rope?

A 5
S R
B 20
What is the area of PQRS?
C 180
A 12 cm2 B 16 cm2

C 14 cm2 D 18 cm2 D 200

34. The total surface area of a cube is 35. The 31st May 2010 was a Monday. On
96 cm2. What is the area of one face which day was the 21st May 2010?
of the cube?

A 4 cm2 A Monday

B 6 cm2 B Thursday

C 16 cm2 C Friday

D 24 cm2 D Saturday

36. Which one of these numbers is a 37. 210 minutes =

factor of 12?

A 4 A 2 hours 10 minutes

B 8 B 2 hours 30 minutes

C 16 C 3 hours 10 minutes

D 24 D 3 hours 30 minutes

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38. After buying a pen for Rs 10•50 and an 39. In which year did the month of February
eraser for Rs 2, Paul has Rs 16•50 left. have 29 days?
How much money did he have at first?

A Rs 4•00 A 1946

B Rs 12•50 B 1952

C Rs 14•50 C 1954

D Rs 29•00 D 1962
5 4 41. The size of angle x is
40. + =
18 9

A 20º
9 13
A B
27 27 B 110º 160º x

C 250º
9 13
C D D 270º
18 18

42. 5 kg 615 g  2 kg 375 g = 43. Zaynab watched a film which lasted for
2 hours 15 minutes. The film ended at
9.30 p.m. At what time did the film begin?

A 3 kg 340 g A 7•15 p.m.

B 3 kg 330 g B 7•45 p.m.

C 3 kg 240 g C 11•15 p.m.

D 3 kg 230 g D 11•45 p.m.

44. Alice has 14 stickers. Béatrice has 45. Yash buys a cap for Rs 200.
twice as many stickers as Alice. How He sells the cap making a profit of 25%.
many stickers do they have altogether? What profit does he make?

A 7 A Rs 25

B 21 B Rs 50

C 28 C Rs 225

D 42 D Rs 250

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46. (a) Write down the missing term in each of the following sequences:

1 2 3
(i) , , , .......................
2 3 4

(ii) 190, 180, 160, 130, .......................

(iii) 81, 27, 9, 3, .......................

47. (a) Work out:

(i) 73•9  94•8

Answer : ..................................................................................

1
(ii) 10 
2

Answer : ..................................................................................

(b) 91 x 29 = x 29  29

What is the missing number?

Answer : ..................................................................................

48. Ashna is 17 years old.

Ravi is 6 years older than Ashna.
How old was Ravi 4 years ago?

Answer : years old

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49. Diksha works 7 hours a day.

She works 5 days a week.
In how many weeks will she work 280 hours?

Answer : weeks
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50. Ah Choy has 136 red beads and 112 blue beads.
He mixes the beads together and packs them equally into 8 boxes.

How many beads are there in each box?

Answer : beads
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SECTION B (40 MARKS)

51. (a) y - axis

6
5
A
4
3
2
1
x - axis
0 1 2 3 4 5 6

(i) State the coordinates of the point A shown on the graph.

Answer : (……………… , ………………)

(ii) Point B has coordinates (0,1). Plot the point B on the graph.

(b) In the diagram below ABCD is a rectangle.

AEB is an isosceles right-angled triangle.
BFC is an equilateral triangle.
E
Find the size of angle x.

x
A
B

D C

Answer : Angle x =
….........................................................................................

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52. Aleeyah, Brinda, Chen and Divya are each given 15 biscuits.
The bar chart below shows the number of biscuits that each girl eats.

16
14

Number of biscuits 12
10
8

4
2

0 Girls
Aleeyah Brinda Chen Divya

(a) Who eats the greatest number of biscuits?

Answer : ….........................................................................................

(b) How many biscuits do Aleeyah and Divya eat altogether?

Answer : biscuits
….........................................................................................

(c) What is the total number of biscuits left?

Answer : biscuits
….........................................................................................

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53. The heights of container A and container B shown below are in the ratio 5 : 4.

Container A Container B

(a) The height of container A is 15 cm. Find the height of container B.

Answer : cm
….........................................................................................

(b) Container B is one quarter full of water.

When 400 mL of water is added to container B, the height of the water
increases by 2 cm.

After the 400 mL of water has been added, how much more water must be
added to container B to fill it completely?

1 full
4
Container B

Answer : mL
….........................................................................................

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54. (a) Robin shared Rs 18 000 among the members of his family.
The shares are represented in the pie chart below.

1
His daughter received of the amount of money
3 Daughter
received by his wife.

How much money did his wife receive? Son

o
144
Wife

Answer : Rs
….........................................................................................

(b) Nita and Asha have the same amount of money.

Nita buys 4 pears at Rs 8 each and 16 oranges. She has Rs 3 left.
Asha buys 23 oranges. She has no money left.

How much money did Nita and Asha each have at first?

Answer : Rs
….........................................................................................

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55. Shakeel and Tarun start a bicycle journey at the same time. Shakeel rides at a speed
of 30 km/h and completes the journey in 5 hours.

(a) What is the distance covered by Shakeel?

Answer : km
….........................................................................................

(b) Tarun covers the first 96 km of the journey at a speed of 32 km/h.

How much time does he take to cover the 96 km?

Answer : h
….........................................................................................

(c) Tarun completes the remaining part of the journey at an average speed of 36 km/h.

What is the distance between Shakeel and Tarun at the moment Tarun completes
the journey?

Answer : km
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