NSC exam, Mathematical Literacy P1, February/March 2013
Assignment Type: Revision Paper
Total Marks: Unmarked
Question 1
Marks: 10
Question 1:

Simplify: ``


 


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Question 2:

Write 6,25% as a common fraction.

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Question 3:

Convert 1 260 seconds to hours.

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Question 4:

Determine the price per gram (rounded off to the nearest cent) if 200 g of peanuts cost R9,96.

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Question 5:

The perimeter of a rectangle is 150 m with a length of 50 m.
Calculate the breadth of the rectangle using the following formula:


Breadth=  - length 


 


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Use the following information - Answer the questions that follow
Marks: 10
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Question 1:

Convert  `3/4`  cup to millilitres.

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Question 2:

Convert 5 ounces to grams.

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Question 3:

Convert 360 oF to oC, rounded off to the nearest 10 oC.


Use the formula below:


 

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Question 4:

Calculate how many grams of cake flour are needed to make 12 dozen cookies.

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Use the graph below - Answer the questions that follow
Marks: 8
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Question 1:

Give India's percentage increase in health care costs during 2010.

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Question 2:

Which country's percentage increase in health care costs was 8% during 2010?

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Question 3:

Identify the country which had the highest percentage increase in health care costs during 2009.

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Question 4:

Which country showed a decrease in health care costs from 2009 to 2011?

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Use the table below - Answer the questions that follow
Marks: 7
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Question 1:

Which country had an exchange rate of US$ 0.012040 to ONE unit of its currency?

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Question 2:

Which of the currencies above gives you the largest amount in US$ for ONE unit of the currency?

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Question 3:

Thabo's accommodation in Zambia costs 25 976,87 kwacha.
Convert this amount to US$.

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Question 4:

Thabo bought goods in Ghana to the value of 1 345 cedi.
Calculate the value, in rand, of the goods Thabo had bought

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Use the following information - Answer the questions that follow:
Marks: 11
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Question 1:

Calculate the average number of shoot days it takes to produce ONE advertisement.

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Question 2:

Calculate the total cost of producing advertisements in high definition if the cost per advertisement is the same as the average cost.

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Question 3:

Determine how many advertisements were NOT produced in high definition.

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Question 4:

In 2011, the hiring cost of equipment used for the filming of one television advertisement was 16% of the cost of producing the advertisement.
Calculate the hiring cost during 2011.

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Question 5:

The average cost of producing an advertisement in 2011 was 40% more than the average cost of producing an advertisement in 2005.
Calculate the average cost of producing an advertisement during 2005.

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Use the information provided below - Answer the questions that follow:
Marks: 11
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Question 1:

Determine the length of the radius of the window

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Question 2:

Calculate the circumference of the window.


Use the formula:
Circumference of a circle = π × d ,
where d = the diameter of the window, and using π = 3,14

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Question 3:

Determine the value of k in centimetres.

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Question 4:

Calculate the area of the wall that he needs to paint.


Use the formulae:


1. Area of a circle    


2. Area of a square 


 where d = diameter of the circle, and using π = 3.14,  s = length of the side of the square

Your Answer:
Use the information provided - Answer the questions that follow
Marks: 4
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Question 1:

Calculate the cost of hair relaxing for the first four weeks.


 Use the formula:


Cost for the first four weeks (in rand) = 140 + (3 × cost of a hair wash)

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Question 2:

Calculate the cost of hair extensions for the first four weeks.


Use the formula:


Cost for the first four weeks (in rand) = 500 + (3 × cost of a hair wash)

Your Answer:
Use the table below - Answer the questions that follow
Marks: 14
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Question 1:

Calculate the missing values A and B.

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Question 2:

Which hairstyle will be cheaper over the first 21 weeks?

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Question 3:

Calculate how much more Nandi will pay over a 37-week period for relaxing her hair compared to wearing hair extensions.

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Question 4:

The graph showing the cost of hair relaxing over a period of 9 months is given below (see attachment).


Draw a labelled line graph of the cost of hair extensions over a period of 37 weeks on the same graph


 

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Use the following information - Answer the questions that follow:
Marks: 5
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Question 1:

The hairdresser needs to calculate the height of each container in order to determine how many containers she can stack on a shelf.


Calculate the height using the following formula:


Height of a container  = `(volume)/(Pixx r^2)`


using :


`Pi =3.14, and 1 ml = 1 cm^3`

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Question 2:

The wholesalers have a promotion on the moisturising gel. They are now selling
600 mℓ of the moisturising gel for the same price as 500 mℓ of the same gel.


Calculate the percentage increase in the volume of the moisturising gel using the following formula attached below:


 


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Your Answer:
Study the Pie Chart - Answer the questions that follow
Marks: 7
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Question 1:

Determine the percentage RDP houses built during 2010.

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Question 2:

In which year was the smallest percentage of RDP houses built?

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Question 3:

In which other year was the same percentage of RDP houses built as in 2005?

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Question 4:

Determine the number of RDP houses built during 2005. 

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Answer the following questions
The information below was provided:
Marks: 2
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Question 1:

Determine the normal weekly wage per employee.


Use the formula:
Weekly wage (in rand) = number of days worked × number of hours per day × rate per hour

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The owner paid the employees an overtime rate - This was at R50 per hour
Marks: 7
Question 1:

Write the ratio of the overtime rate to the normal rate in simplified form.

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Question 2:

If one of the employees received R350 for overtime worked in a given week, determine the number of hours he worked overtime.

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Question 3:

Ferdi planned to take 2 hours unpaid leave, but still wanted to earn a weekly wage of R1 920. If he worked 38 normal working hours, calculate how many hours he had to work overtime to earn this wage.


Use the formula provided below:


 


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Your Answer:
Use the sketch below - Answer the questions that follow
Marks: 9
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Question 1:

Which games are normally played on the open field?

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Question 2:

Which entrance is north of Parking area 1?

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Question 3:

What playground equipment is situated in the south-eastern corner of the park?

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Question 4:

A teacher drew a scale drawing of the park using the scale 1 : 250. If the actual length of Parking area 2 is 15 m, determine the length (in cm) of Parking area 2 on the teacher's scale drawing.

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Question 5:

Calculate the volume of sand used to fill the pit.


Use the formula:
Volume of a rectangular prism = length × width × height

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Your Answer:
Use the following information - Answer the questions that follow:
Marks: 14
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Question 1:

Determine the sample size of the survey.

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Question 2:

How many learners did not watch any television during the week?

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Question 3:

Calculate the range of the time spent by the Grade 8 learners watching television.

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Question 4:

Write down the modal time the Grade 8 learners spent watching television.

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Question 5:

Determine the median time the Grade 8 learners spent watching television.

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Question 6:

Calculate the average (mean) time the Grade 12 learners spent watching television.

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Question 7:

One of the Grade 12 learners is randomly selected.


Determine the probability that this learner spent 45 minutes daily watching television

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Use the graph below - Answer the following questions:
Marks: 9
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Question 1:

Exactly how many minutes did the training session last?

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Question 2:

Determine the total distance (in km) that Malindi ran.

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Question 3:

How far from school was Malindi after she had run for 12 minutes?

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Question 4:

How many times did Malindi rest during the training run?

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Question 5:

After how many minutes was Malindi a distance of 1 km from the school?

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Use the information provided - Refer to the map, and answer the questions that follow:
Marks: 13
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Question 1:

Write down the cut-off time at Boyes Drive.

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Question 2:

Identify TWO sponsors indicated on the map for this cycle tour

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Question 3:

According to the map, if a cyclist reaches Perdekloof, he/she still has to cycle 52,2 km to finish the cycle tour.
How many kilometres has he/she already cycled?

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Question 4:

If a cyclist has only 30 km left to complete the cycle tour, what was the last cut-off point that he/she has passed?

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Question 5:

If a cyclist has only 30 km left to complete the cycle tour, what was the last cut-off point that he/she has passed?

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Question 6:

Determine the distance between the Steenberg cut-off point and the Noordhoek cut-off point.

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Question 7:

Determine the time (in hours) it will take a cyclist to finish the cycle tour if his/her average speed for the whole cycle tour was 15,9 km/h.


Use the formula below:


 


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Your Answer:
Reinhardt Janse van Rensburg won the cycle tour - 2012 in a time of 2:36:17. In the previous six years, the winners finished the cycle tour in the following times:
Marks: 4
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Question 1:

Arrange the times for the past seven years in ascending order.

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Question 2:

Convert Reinhardt Janse van Rensburg's winning time to seconds

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Use the information provided - Answer the questions that follow:
Marks: 7
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Question 1:

Determine the minimum volume of water the cyclist must drink if he/she cycles for 7 hours.

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Question 2:

Determine the surface area of the cylindrical section of the water bottle.


Use the formula: 


Surface area of the cylindrical section = 2× π × r× h , using π= 3,14 where r is the radius and h is the height

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Question 3:

A cyclist decides to use a bigger bottle with a volume of 750 mℓ.
How many 750 mℓ bottles of water will be needed if he/she uses a total of 4 200 mℓ of water?

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END OF EXAM - TOTAL: 150 marks
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