M2 style MCQ test
You may use a calculator mark your answer on the Answer grid you have been sent with an x
1. Tom wants to know how many planes left on time from Belfast international last month. The
airport manager tells him four fifths of the 3300 left how time. How many flights left on time?
a. 660
b. 4125
c. 2640
d. 825
2. which of the following statements is False
a.
3.
3
4
b.
5
c.
48
d.
7
9
3
6
<
54
9
2
>
8
=
16
18
< 0.7
which of the following equations are correct?
a. +
2
5
5
7
b. +
2
5
5
7
c. +
2
5
5
7
2
5
5
7
d. +
=
=
=
=
7
12
39
70
39
35
10
35
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4.
Tickets for the cinema are priced
Adult £8.50
Senior citizen £6
Child £ 4.25
Mr &Mrs. Maguire are taking their family and a few friends of their son to the to the cinema
for their son’s birthday, they spends £58.75 on tickets. They bought two senior citizen tickets
as well as their own. How many of child tickets did they buy?
a. 7
b. 11
c. 9
d. 12
5. Mary Surveyed the students in her university Psychology class to see what is the favourite
Type of film. The results are displayed in the bar chart below. Which type of film was the most
popular?
b. action
c. sci Fi
d. Comedy
Number of Students
a. Horror
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Male students
female students
Type of Film
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6. work out the volume of the cuboid
a. 41.5 cm3
b. 241.5 cm3
c. 2173.5 cm3
d. 94.5cm3
23cm
9cm
10.5 cm
7.
simplify 3m + 4n + 5m - 6n
a. 8m +10n
b. 2m + 2n
c. 8m – 10n
d. 8m – 2n
8.
solve 2T +12 =26
a. T = 7
b. T = 19
c. T = 48
d. T = 76
9. Solve
𝑤
5
= 14
a. w = 2.8
b. w = 70
c. w = 19
d. w = 9
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10. Given that x = 3 and y = -7 Find the value of 5x – 3y
a. 36
b. -6
c. 16
d. 26
11. Calculate the area of T shape
a. 21cm2
b. 73cm2
c. 93cm2
d. 41 cm2
12. The local ecological society took a survey of 120 trees in a small copse to see what type of
trees grew there. the results are represented in the pie Chart. How many Sycamore trees
were in the survey
a. 21
Number of trees
b. 30
15o
c. 25
d. 75
Ash
30o
sycamore
60o
75o
13. In the survey what percentage of the
trees were Beech? (to nearest 1 %)
a. 25%
Oak
Horse Chestnut
90o
90o
Beech
other
b. 60%
c. 20%
d. 17%
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14. Michelle has been offered a job as a sales rep for a pharmaceutical company. Her basic
annual salary will be £21,000 plus monthly commission related to her sales performance
If Michelle takes the Job her monthly sales
target would be £15,000.
commission
If Michelle is on target with her sales what can
paid as % of
she expect to earn each month?
sales
Monthly sales
<than £10,000
0%
£10,000 up to £19,999
4%
£20,000 up to £39,999
6%
£40,000 and above
8%
a. £600
b. £21600
c. £2350
d. £6000
15. 8 years ago Rashid put money into a savings bond shown below He wants to use this money
as a deposit to by a flat. How much Money is currently in the savings bond to the nearest
pound?
Municipal Building Society plc.
a. £15,840
Savings Bond
b. £16,423
(4% compound interest per year)
c. £3840
d. £99,840
Name :
R Shoukrai
D.O.B.
30/ 03/ 1993
Investment : £12, 000
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65o
16. Work out the size of the angle x in the diagram below
a. 140o
b. 65o
c. 115o
75o
X
d. 295o
17. Terry buys Apples and pears at the local greengrocers.
He pays £7.20 for 1.5kg of apples and 12 oranges.
Oranges are priced per orange.
Apples cost £1.20 per kilo.
How much does one orange cost?
a. £0.45
b. £0.60
c. £0.50
d. £5.40
18. Tom, Richard and Harriet are planning a surprise trip for their Parent’s golden wedding
4
anniversary. Tom pays 34% of the trip, Richard pays
and Harriet pays the rest.
11
Who pays the most of the trip?
a. Tom
b. Richard
c. they all paid the same
d. Harriet
19. Sean has five cards each with a number on it. Three of the numbers are shown . The mode
of the numbers is 6 and the mean is 6.
Work out the range of the numbers on the five cards
3
7
6
a. 8
b. 3
c. 6
d. 5
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20. There are 300 first years students at a college.
The Venn diagram represents the number of students
studying Maths, Science and IT
IT
Sci
60
35
20
How many of the 300 students do not study any of
these three subjects?
15
40
23
75
a. 0
Maths
b. 285
c. 15
d. 32
21. Expand and simplify
3(2x -5)- 2(x – 4)
a. 4x - 7
b. 8x - 7
c. 4x - 23
d. 8x – 23
22. The fishing club are surveying the size of fish in the Bann river using capture and release. The
results of the fish surveyed are shown in the table. Calculate an estimate of the mean size of
the fish.
a. 21.67
b. 18.5
c. 16.33
d. 30
size (L) of fish in cm
0<L<5
5 < L < 10
10 < L < 15
15 < L < 20
20 < L < 25
25 < L < 30
number of
fish
1
4
5
5
8
7
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23. The lengths of the 3 sides of 4 triangles are listed below. Which one of the triangles is not a
right angled triangle?
a.
3, 4, 5
b. 5, 12, 13
c. 7, 11, 14
d. 6, 8, 10
24 By forming and solving an equation calculate which of the following is the size of the smallest
angle in the Pentagon
4x - 10
a. 40o
b. 50O
x+10
3x-10
c. 110o
d. 53.1o
2x+30
3x
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