Quick questions

1. What is the relationship between the radius and diameter of

a circle?
2. What does quotient mean?
3. 4(b + 3) =
4. Calculate the average of 12, 18 and 34.
5. If the diameter of a circle is 5cm, find its circumference.
6. Find the range of the following scores: 8, 11, 11, 12, 14, 15,
15, 15, 16, 17, 20.
7. There are 32 students in a class. Each student drinks 250mL
of juice. How many litres is this?
8. If a = 6, b = 2 and c = -3, find abc. (This means a x b x c).
9. What is another way to write s x s x s?
10. If x is increased by 6 and the answer is 15, then x = _____
EXAM REVISION
23.10.17
MATHEMATICAL TRIVIA
23.10.17
Category one: algebra
Round one
1. 6x + 3x 8 =
Round one
2. Is a b the same as b a?
Round one
3. The perimeter of a rectangle is given
by P = 2l + 2w

True or false?
Round one
4. 6p + 2k 3p + 4k =
Round one
5. 2(j + 3) =
Round one
6. Write an algebraic expression for the
average of 4 and k.
Round one
7. Factorise the following expression:

4xy + 2x
Round one
8. What is the perimeter of the triangle
equal to?
 Round one

9. 2j + 6 = 12.
Solve for j.
Round one
10. If t is increased by 4 and the answer
is 8, then t = ____
Round one
1. 6x + 3x 8 =

9x - 8
Round one
2. Is a b the same as b a?

No. If a = 6 and b = 2, 6 2 is not the

same as 2 6.
Round one
3. The perimeter of a rectangle is given
by P = 2l + 2w

True or false?

True. P = 2(l + w)
P = 2l + 2w
Round one
4. 6p + 2k 3p + 4k =

3p + 6k (we always add like terms)

Round one
5. 2(j + 3) =

2j + 6
Round one
6. Write an algebraic expression for the
average of 4 and k.

The average is the sum of the scores

divided by how many scores there are. So
the average is 4 + k
2
Round one
7. Factorise the following expression:

4xy + 2x

We take out common factors.

2x(2y + 1)
Round one
8. What is the perimeter of the triangle
equal to?

= (3x + 2) + (4x 9) + (x 5)
= 8x 12
 Round one

9. 2j + 6 = 12.
Solve for j.

2j = 12 6
2j = 6
j=3
Round one
10. If t is increased by 4 and the answer
is 8, then t = ____

t+4=8
t=4
Round two: circles
Round two
1. What is the relationship between the
radius of a circle and its circumference?
 Round two

2. 0.314 is a commonly used value for pi.

True or false?
Round two

3. A quadrant is of a circle.

True or false?
Round two

4. How many points does a chord cut a circle

at?
Round two

5. The radius of a circle is 2cm. What

is its area?
Round two

6. The diameter of a circle is 34cm. What

is its radius?
Round two

7. How many degrees in a circle?

 Round two

8. What fraction of a circle is represented by

the following sector?
Round two
9. How many quadrants in a circle?
Round two
10. The diameter of a car tyre is 80cm.
Calculate the distance travelled by the
tyre in one revolution, correct to 1
decimal place.
Round two
1. What is the relationship between the
radius of a circle and its circumference?

The radius is half the length of the

diameter.

This means that d = 2r.

 Round two

2. 0.314 is a commonly used value for pi.

True or false?

False. 3.14 is a commonly used value for pi.

Round two

3. A quadrant is of a circle.

True or false?

True
Round two

4. How many points does a chord cut a circle

at?

2 points
Round two

5. The radius of a circle is 2cm. What

is its area?

A = 3.14 x r2
A = 3.14 x 22
A = 3.14 x 4
A = 12.56cm2
Round two

6. The diameter of a circle is 34cm. What

is its radius?

d = 2r
r = 17cm
Round two

7. How many degrees in a circle?

360 degrees
 Round two

8. What fraction of a circle is represented by

the following sector?

There are 360 degrees in

a circle. 36 = 1
360 10
Round two
9. How many quadrants in a circle?

There are four quadrants in a circle

Round two
10. The diameter of a car tyre is 50cm.
Calculate the distance travelled by the tyre
in one revolution, correct to 1 decimal
place.

The distance travelled is the circumference

(or perimeter) of the tyre.
C = 2 x pi x r
C = 2 x 3.14 x 50
C = 314cm or 3.14m
Round three: data
Round three
1. Find the average of the following set of
data:

1, 5, 6, 19, 23.
Round three
2. When talking about data, what is the
mode?
Round three
3. Consider the following stem and leaf
plot.

What is the range?

Round three
4.

What is the median?

Round three
5. What is a categorical variable?
Round three
6. What is the class centre for the class
21 25?
Round three
7. What is the difference between a
census and a sample?
Round three
8. For the scores in the dot plot, find the
mode.
Round three
9. What does cumulative frequency
mean?
Round three

10. What does a frequency polygon look

like?
Round three
1. Find the average of the following set of
data:

1, 5, 6, 19, 23.

10.8
Round three
2. When talking about data, what is the
mode?

The mode is the score that occurs most

frequently.
Round three
3. Consider the following stem and leaf
plot.

What is the range?

183 122 = 61
Round three
4.

What is the median?

The median is the middle score. The median
is 157.
Round three
5. What is a categorical variable?

A categorical variable is something that

can take on a limited number of possible
values, for example, eye colour, hair
colour etc.
Round three
6. What is the class centre for the class
21 25?

23
Round three
7. What is the difference between a
census and a sample?

A census is a study of every person in a

population. A sample is a selection of
people in a population.
Round three
8. For the scores in the dot plot, find the
mode.

8
Round three
9. What does cumulative frequency
mean?

Cumulative frequency is the running total

of all frequencies.
Round three

10. What does a frequency polygon look

like?
Round four: algebra
Round four
1. To complete the following flow chart,
what should be written in each box?
Round four
2. f + 4 = 19
f = ____
Round four
3. 2c + 5p c + 12p =
Round four
4. Half a number is equal to 12. What is
the number?
Round four
5. 7x = 14
x = ____
Round four
6. k = 4
2
k = ___
Round four
7. 4b + 11b = 90
b = _____
Round four

8. Write down an equation that has a

solution x = 2.
Round four
9. x = 5
4
x = ___
Round four
10. Write down the equation for the
following statement:

four times a number x is equal to 16

Round four
1. To complete the following flow chart,
what should be written in each box?

20, 11
Round four
2. f + 4 = 19
f = ____

f = 15
Round four
3. 2c + 5p c + 12p =

We combine like terms.

= (2c c) + (5p + 12p)
= c + 19p
Round four
4. Half a number is equal to 12. What is
the number?

24
Round four
5. 7x = 14
x = ____

x=2
Round four
6. k = 4
2
k = ___

k=8
Round four
7. 4b + 11b = 90
b = _____

15b = 90
15 times something = 90
Therefore b must equal 6
Round four

8. Write down an equation that has a

solution x = 2.

There are multiple solutions here. A few

examples are x + 2 = 4, 2x = 4, x + 3 = 5.
Round four
9. x = 5
4
x = ___

x = 20.
Round four
10. Write down the equation for the
following statement:

four times a number x is equal to 16

4x = 16
Category five: pot luck
Round five
1. Continents shift at the same rate as
your fingernails grow.

True or false?
Round five
2. In 2015 more people were injured from
taking selfies than shark attacks.

True or false?
Round five
3. Australia is wider than the moon.

True or false?
Round five

4. It is not worth Bill Gates time to pick up

a $100 note if he dropped it.

True or false?
Round five

5. What animals fall asleep holding

hands?
Round five
1. Continents shift at the same rate as
your fingernails grow.

True or false?

True
Round five
2. In 2015 more people were injured from
taking selfies than shark attacks.

True or false?

True
Round five
3. Australia is wider than the moon.

True or false?

True
Round five

4. It is not worth Bill Gates time to pick up

a $100 note if he dropped it.

True or false?
True
Round five

5. What animals fall asleep holding

hands?

Otters