WorksheetsGrade 10
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 25mins
Joseph invests R18 000 and it grows to R25 000 over a period of 2 years. Calculate the interest rate to 1 decimal place if the investment earned compound interest?
15%
17,9%
16,2%
19,5%
Vanessa buys a laptop that costs R16 000. She pays a 10% deposit and then takes out a 24 month hire-purchase loan on the balance. Calculate her monthly payments.
R1000
R925
R864
R845
Vanessa buys a laptop that costs R16 000. She pays a 10% deposit and then takes out a 24 month hire-purchase loan on the balance. Calculate what she will actually pay for the laptop.
R22 336
R24 000
R18 000
R25 389
Mike buys a mobile phone costing R8 000 on HP, pays a deposit of R800 and then pays 36 monthly payments of R344. Calculate the simple interest rate.
24%
26%
20%
18%
The average salary of a computer programmer in South Africa in 1995 was R4 500. Assuming an average rate of inflation of 6,1%, would a salary of R9 000 have the same buying power in 2015?
A salary of R9 000 would be way above the buying power of a salary of R16 789,21
A salary of R9 000 would be way below the buying power of a salary of R14 706,87
A salary of R9 000 would be way below the buying power of a salary of R18 166,78
A salary of R9 000 would be way above the buying power of a salary of R14 706,87
What does the 5 number summary consist of?
Lower and Upper Quartile
Median
Min and Max
mean
mode
What are the 3 most popular ways of representing ungrouped data?
Frequency tables
Bar graphs
Stem and leaf
Range
Domain
What is the symbol for mean?
x
y
xy
xy
The formula to calculate the position of the lower quartile is...
81(n+1)
21(n+1)
43(n+1)
41(n+1)
What is the mode in the following set of data:
1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 1 2 5 6 7 8 8 8 9 1
4
1
8
2
What is the mean in the following set of data:
1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 10 2 5 6 7 8 8 8 9 10 24
12,3
6,15
56
123
What is the outlier in the following set of data:
1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 10 2 5 6 7 8 8 8 9 10 24
1
10
24
4
What is the median in the following set of data:
1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 10 2 5 6 7 8 8 8 9 10 24
2
10
5
8
What is an ogive graph?
a bar graph
a frequency polygon
a cumulative frequency graph
a histogram
What is the formula used to calculate the pth percentile?
i=25q(n)
p=10i(n+1)
i=100p(n)
p=100i(n+1)
