Exam Review 2010 Percents

Exam Review Percents

Try to do this question 2 different ways. 

Exam Review 2010 Proportion

Exam Review Proportion

How would you use a ratio table to solve this question?

Exam Review 2010 Algebra

Algebra Problem Solving Exam Review

Remember everything you need for these types of questions, a graph, table, let x, and make sure you verify your expression or equation to equality.

Exam Review 2010 Pythagoras

Here are some excellent Pythagoras Questions.  You should draw a picture to figure out the ABC and have a correct answer.

1. Tony has got his kite stuck at the top of a very tall tree. He knows the string on his kite is 20 m long. When he pulls the string tight and holds the very end on the ground it touches 17 m from the bottom of the tree. If the ground is flat, how tall is the tree
2. Susan is making a jump to ride her bike over. She uses a 1m plank of wood to make the jump, and raises the end 50 cm off the ground with a second piece of wood. How far along the ground from the end of the plank that touches the ground is the second piece of wood?
3. Robert is using a 5m ladder to climb in his upstairs bedroom window. He finds that if he puts the base of the ladder 3.3m from the wall the top leans on the windowsill. How high from the ground is the windowsill?
4. The guy wires holding up an 11m radio transmitter join 2m from the top of the aerial, and are anchored to the ground 7m from the base of the aerial. How long are the guy wires?
5. Tim is standing across a river from Mary. They discover that if they stand exactly opposite each other they can each hold one end of a 5m rope. How long would the rope have to be to reach if Tim moved 8m downstream?

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Exam Review 2010

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This year since we need to continue learning right up to the exam..... the review will be online.  You have many options;

• leave an answer in a comment at the Mathzone Post
• create your own blogpost and use the label examreview
• do the question on paper and tak a phot and upload it to your blogpost or... just do it on paper.

Every day I will attempt to get you ready with questions similar to previous exams.  Please take advantage of this.  The more you are prepared the better you will do.

The problem solving on the exam requires you to do math writing.  Do not shy away from using words to explain what you are doing.

Fractions

Question 1

Question 2

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