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Final Exam Model Paper 3
Full marks: 75Time: 3 hours
All questions are compulsory.
A full practice run of the Grade 9 final exam in Compulsory Mathematics: 75 marks in 3 hours, 16 questions, every one compulsory. The marks of each part are in brackets. Show your working on paper as in the exam hall, then open each part's answer and give yourself the marks its scheme allows. You need a ruler, a compass and a protractor for Questions 11 and 12. Use where it is needed.
A practice paper by Science Playground, made to CDC’s Specification Grid 2078, Mathematics, Grades 9–10. Not an official CDC or exam board paper; the real Grade 9 final exam may differ.
Write your answers on paper first. Then open each answer and its marking scheme, and give yourself one mark for each point you got. In multiple choice, your first choice counts.
Paper to print (PDF, 5 pages) Answer key and marking scheme
Question 1
6 marksU = {x:x is a natural number from 1 to 15} is the universal set of P = {prime numbers}, S = {square numbers} and E = {even numbers}.
Write the cardinal number of the set E.
Answer
E = {2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14}, so n(E) = 7.
Marking scheme
- n(E) = 7.
Show the sets P, S and E in a Venn diagram.
Answer
P = {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13}, S = {1, 4, 9}, E = {2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14}. No number is in all three sets, and none is in both P and S; 4 is in S and E, and 2 in P and E.
Marking scheme
- A Venn diagram in a rectangle U with every number from 1 to 15 in its right region (15 outside the circles, nothing where P and S overlap).
Prove by listing the elements: P ∩ E = P ∪ E
Answer
Left side: P ∩ E = {2}, so
Right side: P = {1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15} and E = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15}, so
Both sides are the same set. So P ∩ E = P ∪ E.
Marking scheme
- P ∩ E = {2} and its complement listed.
- P and E listed.
- P ∪ E listed, and the two sides said to be equal.
What is the relation between the sets P and S? Give a reason.
Answer
: P and S are disjoint sets. The reason: a square number other than 1 is k × k with k > 1, so it has the factor k and isn't prime; and 1 isn't a prime number either.
Marking scheme
- Disjoint sets (), with a reason.
Question 2
5 marksIshwori is a computer engineer at a company in Lalitpur. Her monthly salary is Rs 1,10,000, and she gets 13 months' salary in a year, including the festival allowance. Every month she deposits 10% of her monthly salary in the Citizen Investment Trust, which the law allows to be taken off her income. Her only income is her salary. The income tax rates for 2083/84 are:
| Taxable income in a year | Rate |
|---|---|
| the first Rs 10,00,000 | 1% |
| the next Rs 5,00,000 (Rs 10 lakh to 15 lakh) | 10% |
| the next Rs 10,00,000 (Rs 15 lakh to 25 lakh) | 20% |
A woman whose only income is from employment gets 10% off her income tax.
What is the 1% tax on the first band of income called?
Answer
The social security tax.
Marking scheme
- Social security tax.
Find Ishwori's taxable income for the year.
Answer
Yearly income = 13 × 110000 = 1430000. Deposits in the trust .
Rs 12,98,000.
Marking scheme
- The yearly income Rs 14,30,000 and the deposits Rs 1,32,000.
- Taxable income Rs 12,98,000.
How much income tax does she pay in the year?
Answer
Rs 12,98,000 = Rs 10,00,000 + Rs 2,98,000.
Relief: . She pays 39800 − 3980 = 35820.
Rs 35,820.
Marking scheme
- The tax before relief: Rs 39,800.
- Rs 35,820 after the 10% relief.
Question 3
3 marksA dairy cooperative in Chitwan made a profit of Rs 72,00,000 this year. It pays 10% of its profit as a bonus, shared equally among its 48 employees.
What is a bonus?
Answer
A bonus is money that an organization pays its employees once a year, on top of their salary, as a part of the profit it made that year.
Marking scheme
- A part of the year's profit paid to the employees, on top of their salary.
How much bonus does each employee get?
Answer
Bonus fund ; each = 720000 ÷ 48 = Rs 15,000.
Marking scheme
- Rs 15,000.
Next year the profit falls by 20%, and the cooperative has 2 more employees. With the same rate of bonus, by how much does each employee's bonus fall?
Answer
New profit ; bonus fund = 576000; each of 50 employees gets 576000 ÷ 50 = 11520.
Each bonus falls by 15000 − 11520 = Rs 3,480.
Marking scheme
- Rs 3,480 (each new bonus Rs 11,520).
Question 4
5 marksBibek's family lives in Bhaktapur. Use these rates:
| Water, ½ inch pipe (KUKL) | Electricity, 5 A meter (NEA) | Taxi |
|---|---|---|
| Rs 100 for the first 10 units, then Rs 32 a unit; sewerage charge 50% of the water charge | Minimum charge: Rs 75 for 51 to 100 units. Energy charge: the first 20 units Rs 3 each, the next 10 Rs 6.50, the next 20 Rs 8, then Rs 9.50 | Day: Rs 14 to start, then Rs 39 a km. Night: Rs 21 to start, then Rs 58.50 a km |
In Poush the family used 9 units of water. How much is the water bill, with the sewerage charge?
Answer
9 units is less than the minimum 10 units, so the water charge is the minimum, Rs 100. Bill = 100 + 50 = Rs 150.
Marking scheme
- Rs 150 (the minimum charge with 50% sewerage).
In the same month they used 72 units of electricity. Find the electricity bill.
Answer
72 units = 20 + 10 + 20 + 22, in the 51–100 block, so the minimum charge is Rs 75.
Rs 569.
Marking scheme
- The energy charge block by block: Rs 494.
- The bill: Rs 569.
Bibek's uncle lands at the airport, 9 km from their home, at 10 o'clock at night. Bibek says, “At night the taxi costs one and a half times the day fare.” Is he right for this ride? Show it.
Answer
Day: 14 + 39 × 9 = 14 + 351 = 365. Night: 21 + 58.50 × 9 = 21 + 526.50 = 547.50.
547.50 ÷ 365 = 1.5. Yes, he is right: the night fare, Rs 547.50, is exactly 1.5 times the day fare, Rs 365, because every night rate is 50% more than the day rate.
Marking scheme
- Both fares: Rs 365 by day and Rs 547.50 at night.
- Yes, the ratio is exactly 1.5.
Question 5
5 marksRajkumar has a triangular field in Bara with sides of 130 ft, 140 ft and 150 ft. (1 kattha = 3,645 ft².)
How many dhur make 1 kattha?
Answer
20 dhur.
Marking scheme
Find the semi-perimeter of the field.
Answer
210 ft.
Marking scheme
- s = 210 ft.
Find the area of the field in square feet, and in kattha and dhur.
Answer
8,400 ft². In kattha: 8400 ÷ 3645 = 2.3045…: 2 kattha, and 0.3045 × 20 = 6.09 dhur.
8,400 ft², that is 2 kattha 6.09 dhur.
Marking scheme
- 8,400 ft² from Heron's formula.
- 2 kattha 6.09 dhur.
His neighbor's plot is 2 kattha 5 dhur. Whose land is bigger, and by how many square feet?
Answer
1 dhur = 3645 ÷ 20 = 182.25 ft², so the neighbor's plot is 2 × 3645 + 5 × 182.25 = 7290 + 911.25 = 8201.25 ft².
Rajkumar's field is bigger, by 8400 − 8201.25 = 198.75 ft² (about 1.09 dhur).
Marking scheme
- Rajkumar's, by 198.75 ft².
Question 6
4 marksZeenat, a Grade 9 student in Nepalgunj, pours water into a cylindrical tin with an inner radius of 6 cm. Then she drops in a solid spherical stone of radius 3 cm, which sinks to the bottom and is covered by the water.
Write the formula for the surface area of a sphere.
Answer
Marking scheme
- .
By how much does the water level in the tin rise?
Answer
The water rises by as much as the stone's volume, spread over the tin's base.
The water rises by 1 cm. (Both are : and .)
Marking scheme
- The volume of the stone: cm³.
- The area of the tin's base: cm².
- The rise: 1 cm.
Question 7
4 marksSalim builds a concrete ramp for wheelchairs at the door of a health post in Gorkha. It is a prism whose ends are right-angled triangles: the ramp rises 0.5 m over a level distance of 3 m, and it is 1.2 m wide.
How much concrete does the ramp need?
Answer
0.9 m³ of concrete.
Marking scheme
- The area of the triangular end: 0.75 m².
- The volume: 0.9 m³.
Concrete costs Rs 15,000 a cubic meter, and the health post has Rs 11,250 for the ramp. Is that enough? If not, how wide can the ramp be made with that money, with the same ends?
Answer
Cost = 0.9 × 15000 = 13500. No, Rs 11,250 is not enough (Rs 2,250 short).
With Rs 11,250 they can buy 11250 ÷ 15000 = 0.75 m³. Width 1 m.
Marking scheme
- The cost Rs 13,500, so the money is not enough.
- A width of 1 m.
Question 8
4 marksThe seats in a hall in Hetauda are in rows, each row having the same number more than the row in front of it. The 4th row has 26 seats and the 9th row has 41 seats.
What is the common difference of an arithmetic sequence?
Answer
The common difference is the fixed number that each term exceeds the term before it by: d = t₂ − t₁ = t₃ − t₂ = ⋯.
Marking scheme
- Any term minus the term before it, the same all through.
Find how many more seats each row has than the row in front.
Answer
From the 4th row to the 9th row there are 5 steps:
3 seats more in each row.
Marking scheme
- d = 3.
How many seats are in the first row, and how many in the 20th row?
Answer
t₄ = a + 3d: 26 = a + 9, so a = 17.
17 seats in the first row and 74 in the 20th.
Marking scheme
- The first row: 17 seats.
- The 20th row: 74 seats.
Question 9
7 marksWrite the factors of .
Answer
Marking scheme
- .
Find the HCF of and .
Answer
First expression:
Second expression:
The factor in both: HCF .
Marking scheme
- .
- .
- HCF .
Simplify:
Answer
Division law, then power law:
Each index splits: , , .
Multiplication law:
1.
Marking scheme
- Each bracket as one power: and so on.
- The indices split, and so on, or added over the common denominator abc.
- .
Question 10
4 marksSujata's mother is four times as old as Sujata. After 5 years, she will be three times as old as Sujata.
Find their present ages.
Answer
Let Sujata be x years old and her mother y years old:
Put (i) in (ii): 4x + 5 = 3x + 15, so x = 10 and y = 40.
Sujata is 10 years old and her mother 40. Check: after 5 years, 45 = 3 × 15 ✓
Marking scheme
- The equations y = 4x and y + 5 = 3(x + 5).
- Sujata 10 years and her mother 40 years.
After how many years will the mother be exactly twice as old as Sujata? After that, will she ever again be three times as old as Sujata? Give a reason.
Answer
After t years: 40 + t = 2(10 + t), so 40 + t = 20 + 2t and t = 20. After 20 years, when they are 30 and 60.
No, never again: the difference in their ages stays 30 years, so the ratio keeps falling towards 1 as both grow older (four times now, three times after 5 years, twice after 20).
Marking scheme
- After 20 years (from 40 + t = 2(10 + t)).
- No, with the reason that the age difference stays 30 years, so the ratio only falls.
Question 11
5 marksVerify experimentally that the sum of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the third side. Draw two triangles of different sizes.
Answer
Figures: draw two triangles ABC of different sizes, for example with AB = 3 cm, BC = 4 cm, CA = 5 cm, and AB = 4 cm, BC = 6 cm, CA = 7 cm.
Table: measure the sides and add them in pairs:
| Figure | AB + BC | CA | BC + CA | AB | CA + AB | BC | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 7 cm | 5 cm | 9 cm | 3 cm | 8 cm | 4 cm | each sum greater |
| II | 10 cm | 7 cm | 13 cm | 4 cm | 11 cm | 6 cm | each sum greater |
Conclusion: the sum of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the third side.
Marking scheme
- Two triangles of different sizes with their sides measured.
- A table of the three sums and the third sides, with a result for each figure.
- The conclusion in words.
In the figure, , AD = 4 cm, DB = 6 cm and DE = 5 cm. Find the length of BC, with reasons.
Answer
In △ADE and △ABC: ∠ADE = ∠ABC (corresponding angles, ) and ∠A is common. So , and their corresponding sides are in the same ratio:
BC = 12.5 cm.
Marking scheme
- , with the equal angles as the reason.
- BC = 12.5 cm.
Question 12
4 marksIn the parallelogram ABCD in the figure, the diagonals AC and BD meet at O.
How are the diagonals of a parallelogram related?
Answer
The diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other: AO = OC and BO = OD.
Marking scheme
- They bisect each other.
If AO = (2x + 1) cm and OC = (x + 4) cm, find x and the length of AC.
Answer
AO = OC: 2x + 1 = x + 4, so x = 3. Then AO = OC = 7 cm and AC = 14 cm.
Marking scheme
- x = 3 and AC = 14 cm.
Construct a trapezium ABCD in which , AB = 6.5 cm, BC = 4 cm, CD = 3.5 cm and .
Answer
Draw AB = 6.5 cm. At B, construct with a compass and cut BC = 4 cm on BX. At C, construct on the same side as A (co-interior with 60°, so ), and cut CD = 3.5 cm on CY. Join AD.
ABCD is the trapezium. See it step by step in Construct it: a trapezium.
Marking scheme
- AB, the 60° angle at B with compass arcs and BC = 4 cm.
- (120° at C), CD = 3.5 cm, and the trapezium completed.
Question 13
4 marksThe top of a round table in a hotel in Pokhara is a circle with center O. A straight strip of brass is fixed along the chord AB, 48 cm long, whose midpoint is M; OM = 7 cm.
What is the size of ∠OMA? Write the theorem that gives it.
Answer
. The line joining the center of a circle and the midpoint of a chord is perpendicular to the chord.
Marking scheme
- 90°, with the theorem.
Find the radius of the table top.
Answer
cm. In the right-angled △OMA, the radius OA is the hypotenuse:
The radius is 25 cm.
Marking scheme
- AM = 24 cm with used.
- The radius: 25 cm.
A second brass strip CD, 14 cm long, is fixed along another chord. Which strip, AB or CD, is nearer the center? Give a reason.
Answer
The distance of CD from the center: cm. AB is nearer (7 cm against 24 cm): the longer chord is nearer the center.
Marking scheme
- AB, with the reason (CD is 24 cm from the center, or the longer chord is nearer).
Question 14
5 marksHema, a sports teacher in Jumla, wrote down the shoe sizes of the 20 students of Grade 9 for a sports kit:
5, 6, 6, 7, 5, 8, 6, 7, 6, 4, 7, 6, 5, 6, 8, 7, 6, 5, 7, 6
In which form (series) are these data given?
Answer
Each student's size is written separately, as collected: raw data, an individual series.
Marking scheme
- Individual series (raw data).
Make a frequency table of the data with tally marks.
Answer
| Shoe size | Tally | Students (f) |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | | | 1 |
| 5 | |||| | 4 |
| 6 | 8 | |
| 7 | 5 | |
| 8 | || | 2 |
| N = 20 |
Marking scheme
- The table with frequencies 1, 4, 8, 5 and 2 (total 20).
Find the mean shoe size.
Answer
The mean size is 6.15.
Marking scheme
- .
- Mean = 6.15.
The shop will send most shoes in one size. Which measure of central tendency should Hema use to choose that size, and what is it? Give a reason.
Answer
The mode, size 6: it is the size most students wear (8 of 20). The mean, 6.15, isn't a size shoes are made in, and it says nothing about which size is most needed.
Marking scheme
- The mode, size 6, with a reason.
Question 15
6 marksBefore the planting season, Bishal, a farmer in Dang, tested 200 maize seeds from an agrovet shop. 170 of them germinated.
Write the formula for empirical probability.
Answer
Marking scheme
- Times the event happened ÷ number of trials.
Find the empirical probability that a seed germinates.
Answer
Trials: 200 seeds; the event happened 170 times.
(0.85).
Marking scheme
- The values: 170 out of 200.
- (0.85).
He sows 1,000 seeds from the same lot. About how many of them will not germinate?
Answer
Expected number: . About 150 seeds.
Marking scheme
- (0.15).
- About 150 seeds.
Can Bishal be sure that exactly 850 of the 1,000 seeds will germinate? Give a reason.
Answer
No. An empirical probability comes from a test, so it only estimates what to expect: the 1,000 seeds may give a few more or a few fewer than 850, though the number is likely to be near it.
Marking scheme
- No, with the reason that an empirical probability gives only an estimate.
Question 16
4 marksAt Dashain, Laxmi flies a kite (changa). Her string AK is 60 m long and makes an angle of 30° with the level line AB; .
Write the value of .
Answer
.
Marking scheme
- .
Find the value of .
Answer
.
Marking scheme
- .
How high is the kite above Laxmi's hand?
Answer
30 m.
Marking scheme
- 30 m.
Her brother's kite string is also 60 m long, but his kite flies m above his hand. What angle does his string make with the level line? Give a reason.
Answer
, so .
Marking scheme
- 60°, from .
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