UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE CARIBBEAN

Incorporating Institute Of Management Sciences & Institute Of Management & Production A Member of the Commonwealth & OAS Consortia of Universities

FOUNDATION MATHEMATICS
CENTRE DATE TIME : OXFORD TERRACE, MOBAY AND MAY PEN CAMPUSES : DECEMBER 15, 2011 : 2:00 PM

DURATION: 2 HOURS INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Please read all instructions carefully before attempting any question. 2. This paper consists of four (4) printed pages and five (5) questions. 3. Candidates are required to answer any three (3) questions. 20 Marks each
ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED IN THE ANSWER BOOKLET PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU NUMBER YOUR QUESTIONS CORRECTLY. CLEARLY WRITE THE NUMBER OF THE QUESTION ON EACH OF THE RELEVANT PAGES. WHERE QUESTIONS HAVE MULTIPLE PARTS, ALL PARTS MUST BE ANSWERED. START THE RESPONSE TO EACH QUESTION ON A NEW PAGE.

DO NOT OPEN YOUR QUESTION PAPER OR BEGIN WRITING UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO

ANSWER ANY THREE (3) QUESTIONS QUESTION 1 a. Complete the number sentence in such a way that the associative property of addition is satisfied. (i) (50 + 10) + 6 = _______ [3 marks] b. Find the L.C.M. (Lowest Common Multiple) of the following number pairs:[2 marks] (i) 5, 20 (ii) 23, 17

[2 marks]

c. Find the G.C.F. (Greatest Common Factor) of:(i) (ii) 96, 120, 144 28, 70, 120, 160

[3 marks] [3 marks]

d. Consider the following set: 4 (a) { 0.2 , 37, , 11 , -19, 8.51,0}. 15 a. Which numbers are natural numbers? b. Which numbers are whole numbers? c. Which numbers are integers? d. Which numbers are rational numbers? e. Which numbers are irrational numbers? f. Which numbers are negative numbers?

[1 mark] [1 mark] [1 mark] [1 mark] [1 mark] [1mark]

Total 20 marks
QUESTION 2

(a) Simplify the following expressions. i. 6a 2b 3ab 2 + 5ab + a 2b 2ab 2 9ab ii. 15 + 8 x 3 y 4 9 x + 5 y (b) Write an expression for each of the following i. 9 plus the product of 3 and x.

[2 marks] [2 marks]

[1 mark]

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ii. The product of 5 and the sum of x and 3.

[1 mark]

(c) Expand and simplify i. n 4 p 2 ( 3n p ) ii. 2 ( x + y 3 y 2 ) ( 5 x + 4 y y 2 + 3) iii. ( 3 x y )( 3 x + y ) (d) Simplify i) ii)

2x 3 x + 4 3 4 y +1 3 1 + 2y 4 y

[2 marks] [3 marks] [3 marks]

[3 marks] [3 marks] Total 20 marks

QUESTION 3 a. A store normally sells an outfit for $3570 but on a sale day, the store is offering a 39% discount. i) Calculate the discount amount. [2 marks] [2 marks] ii) What is the final sale price?? b. What is the original price for an item on sale for $990 that has been reduced in [3 marks] a sale by 25%? c. If the sales tax for each purchase is 18%, what is the total purchase price paid [3 marks] for an item listed for $8950??

d. A restaurant donates 21% of each cash purchase to Food for the Poor. If a couple spends $1390 on a meal, what will the donation amount be??

[3 marks]
e. Based on the work that Mark, Lisa, Angie and Fay did, they earned $6561 to be divided among them at a ratio of 1:1:3:4 respectively. Calculate the amount each person will receive. [4 marks]

Total 17 marks

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QUESTION 4 (a) The Venn diagram below shows the number of students doing Music (M), Art & Craft (A), and French (F) in a class of 50.
A M 2x 10 2 x 3 x1 U F

i. Write down an expression, in terms of x, for the number of students who do Art & Craft. ii. Write down an equation, in terms of x, which shows the information in the Venn diagram. iii. Determine the number of students who do Music only. iv. Determine the number of students who do French

[1 + 2 + 2 + 2 marks]
(b) Given the universal set = {1, 2, 3,...15} and subsets A = {factors of 30} and B = {multiplrs of 2} i. List the elements of set [2 marks] 1. A 2. B [1 mark] [2 marks] 3. ( A U B ) 4. A I B ii. What is the value of n ( A ) ?

[2 marks] [2 marks]

iii. Draw a Venn diagram to represent and its subsets: A and B.[4 marks]

Total 20 marks

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QUESTION 5 a. Given that y = x 2 + x 4 i) Copy and complete the table below for -3 x 4

x Y

-3

-2 -2

-1

2 2

(4 marks) ii) Using a scale of 2cm to represent 1 unit on the x-axis and 1cm to represent 1 unit on the y- axis, draw the graph of y = x 2 + x 4 for values of x , -3 x 4 iii) (4 marks)

Using your graph, read off the points when the curve cuts the x-axis. (2 marks) A line passes through the points (3 , 9) and ( 2 , 8) i) Find the slope of the line

b.

(3 marks)

ii)

Give the equation of the line that passes through points (3 , 9) and ( 2, 8). (3 marks)

Total 16 marks

END OF QUESTION PAPER

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