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Question1
The gures below show four line graphs on the price of house A and house B.

Price (RM) Price (RM)

House A House A

House B
House B
120 000 120 000

Time Time
2 4 6 8 10 (year) 2 4 6 8 10 (year)
Line Graph P Line Graph Q

Price (RM) House A Price (RM)

House A

House B
House B
120 000 120 000

Time Time
2 4 6 8 10 (year) 2 4 6 8 10 (year)
Line Graph R Line Graph S

For each statement below, match with the appropriate answer.

(a) The price of house B is higher than house A however, the rate of price increase is slower
compared to house A.

(b) The price of house A is higher than house B but the rate of price increase is much slower than
house B.

(c) The price of house A is the same as house B but the rate of its price increase is faster than
house B.

(d) The price of house B is much lower than house A but the rate of price increase is much slower
than house A.
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Question 2
Four students are attending a course on a 400 meter track race event for the district sports champion-
ship. The table below shows the number of track rounds that each students performed during the ve
day course.

Day Day Day Day Day Total

Student one two three four ve rounds
Farish 10 8 9 9 7 43
Kent 9 11 8 12 8 48
Denesh 11 9 - 10 10 40
Amirul 7 6 9 10 11 43

Denesh did not attend training on day three because he was not feeling well.

(a) On average, who showed the best track performance? Give your reasons.

(b) On the average, did Farish and Amirul show the same track performance? Why?

Question 3
The table below showed the population of several states that have been rounded up to the nearest
thousand for every 10 years and also the area of the states.

State Year 1980 Year 1990 Year 2000 Year 2010

Selangor 1 426 000 2 289 000 3 948 000 5 462 000 7956
Johor 1 580 000 2 074 000 2 566 000 3 350 000 18 985
Kuala Lumpur 920 000 1 145 000 1 298 000 1 675 000 341
Pulau Pinang 901 000 1 065 000 1 226 000 1 561 000 1033

(a) Which state showed the highest population in the period of 30 years?

(b) Based on the ratio of total populationto the area, determine which state has the highest density
of population in year 2010? Give your opinion why that state has the highest population density.
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(c) If the population aged 15 years and below represents 27.6% of the total population of Malaysia,
what is the approximate total population in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor in the year 2010?

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Question 4
The table below shows the average water consumption record for each person (per capita) in the
year 2009 and 2010.

Water consumption per capita (liter)

State
2009 2010
Johor 213 214
Kedah 231 235
Kelantan 137 133
Labuan 205 207
Melaka 225 231
Negeri Sembilan 215 223
Pulau Pinang 286 291
Pahang 183 212
Perak 222 228
Perlis 205 257
Sabah 106 85
Sarawak 134 128
Selangor 235 239
Terengganu 192 187

(a) Which state recorded the highest decline in water consumption?

(b) Which state recorded the highest increase in water consumption?

(c) Which state recorded the same water consumption in 2009?

(d) What is the highest total water consumption recorded in the year 2010?
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(e) State whether the following statement is true or false.

(i) Selangor showed the highest water consumption in year 2009.

(ii) Consumption of water in Sabah showed the lowest in both years.

(iii) Perak and Melaka recorded the same decrease in the total water consumption.

(iv) Pulau Pinang and Terengganu recorded the same increase in total water consumption.

(v) Johor showed the lowest increase in water consumption.

Question 5
The bar chart below showed data collected by Sarah about her classmates hobbies.

No of students

18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0 Hobby
A B C D E F G

Help Sarah in labeling the type of hobbies based on each of the following statement.

(a) Only one student has an acting hobby.

(b) The number of students having karaoke as a hobby is half the number of students having computer
as a hobby.

(c) The number of students watching television as a hobby is the same as those having touring as a
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(d) The number of students having skate boards as a hobby is twice the number of those who like
acting as a hobby.

(e) The number of students having touring as a hobby and playing with the computer is the same as
those who like surng the internet.

Question 6
The examination grades for students in Form 2 Gigih in Mathematicare represented in the following pie
chart.

A
B
C
D

(a) What is the mod for the examination grade for students in Form 2 Gigih?

(b) What is the estimate percentage of students having grade C?

(c) Estimate the percentage of students getting grade A. Give your explanation.

(d) If 21 students get grade B, how many students are there in Form 2 Gigih?

(e) Examination grades for the students in the same class for Science are represented in the following
pie chart.

A
B
C
D
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Based on both pie charts which subject is more dicult for the students?
Give your opinion.

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Question 7
Cikgu Aisyah asked Daniel and Irfan to nd information on the number of members of six clubs in their
school and represent them in a chart form. Part of the following pictograph was built by Daniel where
as part of the bar chart was built by Irfan.

Club Number of students

Archery

Swimming

Theater

Karate

Number of
students

48
46
44
42
40
38
36
34
32
30
28
26
24
22
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
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0 Club
Chess Football Archery

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(a) What is the suitable scale for the pictograph that Daniel built?

(b) Arrange the club from the most popular to the least popular.

(c) What is the total number of students in the two clubs that have the most number of members?

(d) What is the min number of students for each club?

Question 8
The gure below shows four pie charts.

P Q

R S

Match each following statement with the appropriate pie chart.

(a) Almost three quarters of the students in school A are female students.

(b) In study B, 27 students were asked to solve a puzzle. 9 of them were successful in solving it.

(c) 50% of the students in class C chose the red colour.

(d) Student D nished one third of his dayby reading a story book.
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Question 9
Suzanne takes a taxi from her house to KLIA to go to Australia. Her brother, Albert found her passport
which she had left at home and the hurriedly left for KLIA by taking the express rail train to send his
sisters passport. The Figure below shows Suzannes journey from home and Alberts journey from the
express rail station to KLIA.

Distance (km)

70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
8.45 8.50 8.55 9.00 9.05 9.10 9.15 9.20 9.25 9.30
am am am am am am am am am am
Time
Suzanne Albert

(a) What is the speed of Alberts journey in kilometer per hour?

(b) At what time did Alberts journey rst overtake Suzannes journey?

(c) At what time did Suzannes journey became faster than Albert?

(d) Compare the speed of the taxi and express rail based on the above graph.

Question 10
The gure below shows the weekly expenditure of a family.

30
40 Food and drinks Water and electricity
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Clothing Travelling
75
Entertainment Others
50 25

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(a) If this family spends RM350 per week for food and drinks, how much is spent on entertainment?

(b) How much did they spend on travelling and others?

(c) What is the dierence on the amount spent on clothing, water and electricity?

Question 11
Four students were asked to record data on the numbers obtained from each of them when they turn
the rotor. They also need to make representation of the data obtained in the form of either a suitable
chart or table.
The gure below shows the chart for 20 cycles that was drawn by Qayyum.

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Number of cycles

6
5
4
3
2
1
Number
0 1 2 3 4 5 6

The gure below is a pie chart drawn by Carmella for 15 cycles. Carmella obtained 1 number only once.

1 2
3 4
5 6
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The chart drawn by Zaqyah is shown in the gure below for 18 cycles.

Number
6
5
4
3
2
1
Number of
0 1 2 3 4 5 cycles

Mei Fung built a table for 22 cycles as shown below.

Number Tally markings

1
2
3
4
5
6

(a) Who got the most for acquiring number 1?

(b) Which number is the experiment mod? Show how you achieve the answer.

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Question 12
The gure below shows the price trend for a liter of petrol, in cents, from year 2000 until 2013.

Price (cents)
350

300
250

200
150

50
0 Year
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

(a) When did the price of petrol remain the same?

(b) In which year did the price of petrol increased dramatically?

(c) How many times did the petrol price increase happen?

(d) How many times did the petrol price drop occur?

(e) Based on the gure, do you expect the price of petrol to follow the same or dierent trend for the
next ten years? Give your opinion.

(f) If the same trend is expected to happen, what are your recommendations to reduce human
dependency on oil as the fuel resource?

Question 13
State the type of charts appropriate for each of the following data.

(a) Speed, in kilometer per hour, ve types of ground and air transport.

(b) Number of trac summons issued by JPJ in a period of 10 years.

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(c) Total petrol export, in metric tonsby 10 main world exporters.

(d) Percentage of indigenous inhabitants in Sarawak according to race.

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(e) Sales of cakes in Kedai Kek Oolala in the year 2009 according to percentage.

(f) Rate of cooling boiling water using ice.

(g) Prot or loss in the rst quarter until the fourth quarter in year 2012.

(h) The countrys ination rate 15 years before.

(i) Our money; where is it spent?

(j) The average monthly temperature for Kuala Lumpur.

(k) The Asean countries population in year 2011.

(l) Percentage enrolment of university students according to subjects.

Question 14
The gure below shows the achievement record of a football team in a league tournament.

28
26
24
Number of matches

22
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0 Season
1
0

3
9

2
8

4
01
01

01
00

01
00

01
/2
/2

/2
/2

/2
/2

/2
10

12
08

11
09
07

13
20

20
20

20
20
20

20

Win Draw Lost

(a) How many matches did the team won in the last three seasons?
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(b) What is the percentage match win of the team throughout the seven seasons of the league
tournament? Show your calculations.

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(c) 3 points will be given for each match won, 1 point for a match draw and no points for any lost
matches.

Based on this information, which season was the best season for this team? Show your
calculations in the form of a table.

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1. (a) Line graph S (b) Line graph R

(c) Line graph Q (d) Line graph P

2. (a) Denesh, because his average track race is the highest, that is, 10.

(b) Yes, because the min total track rounds is the same, that is, 8.6.

3. (a) Selangor

(b) State Ratio

Selangor 687 : 1
Johor 176 : 1
Kuala Lumpur 4912 : 1
Pulau Pinang 1511 : 1

Kuala Lumpur showed the highest population density because the ratio of population to
area is the highest.

The population density of Kuala Lumpur is the highest because it is the capital of Malaysia
and the economic center.

(c) 1 969 812

4. (a) Sabah (b) Perlis

(c) Labuan and Perlis (d) 291 liter

(c) (i) False (ii) True

(iii) True (iv) False

(v) True

5. A: Surng the internet B: Acting

C: Playing computer games D: Watching television or touring

E: Karaoke F: Touring or watching television

G: Playing skate boards

6.
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(a) Gred B

(b) 25%. The sector size C is more or less a quarter of the pie chart.

(c) Accept answers that are sensible, that is between 15% 17%. Sector size A is about 2 of
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(d) 42 students

(e) Science, because the percentage number of students having grade B is less than those
having grade C.

7. (a) Represents 10 people Represent 1 person

(b) Football, swimming, chess, karate, theater, archery

(c) 45 + 36 = 81 members

45 + 36 + 35 + 33 + 25 + 24
(d) = 33 people
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8. (a) Q (b) S

(c) R (d) P

9. (a) 60 = 120 kilometer per hour

0.5
(b) 9.10 am

(c) 9.15 am until 9.20 am

(d) The chart journey for Suzanne is not a straight line because the speed of the journey by taxi
is not the same as the speed of journey by rail express taken by Albert. This is because the
taxi moves at dierent speed in view of the trac but the rail express travels at a constant
speed.

Accept sensible answers.

(a) 350 3 40 = RM100

10.
140

(b) 350 3 350 3

+
140 75 140 30 = RM 262.50

350 3 350 3
(c) 50 + 25 = RM 62.50
140 140
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11. (a) Mei Fung

(b) Number 2. Students need to make a table.

Number Qayyum Carmella Zaqyah Mei Fung Total

1 2 1 4 5 12
2 6 3 4 5 18
3 4 4 2 3 13
4 4 3 1 4 12
5 3 2 3 1 9
6 1 2 4 4 11
Total 20 15 18 22 75

(c) Number 1 and number 4

12. (a) 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2013

(b) 2011

(c) 9 times

(d) 2 times

(e) The same trend is expected to occur because the price of fuel will always increase
because the resource is diminishing.

Accept sensible answers.

(f) Man can start using solar energy as the alternative fuel resource.

Accept sensible answers.

13. (a) Line chart (b) Bar chart

(c) Bar chart (d) Pie chart

(c) Pie chart (f) Line chart

(g) Bar chart (h) Line chart

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(i) Pie chart (j) Line chart

(k) Bar chart (l) Pie chart

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14. (a) 14 + 16 + 26 = 56

(b) 137 100 = 51.5%

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(c) Season (year) Win Draw Total points
2007/2008 63 13 76
2008/2009 75 11 86
2009/2010 54 9 63
2010/2011 51 7 58
2011/2012 42 10 52
2012/2013 48 13 61
2013/2014 78 6 84

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