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Title ZIMSEC GCE Mathematics Mock Paper 1C - Short Structured
Description Original online ZIMSEC GCE/O-Level Mathematics Paper 1 practice. About 30 compulsory short-structured questions, 100 marks, 150 minutes. Show all working. Online scoring awards whole-question marks; a teacher should review working for partial credit. Not an official past paper.
Total Marks 100 points
Duration 150 minutes

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Question 1

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Two angles of a triangle are 48 degrees and 67 degrees. Find the third angle.
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Question 2

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt The exterior angle of a regular polygon is 24 degrees. How many sides does it have?
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Question 3

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Find one interior angle of a regular decagon.
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Question 4

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One corresponding angle is 112 degrees. Find the other corresponding angle.
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Question 5

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt A right-angled triangle has shorter sides 9 cm and 12 cm. Find its hypotenuse.
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Question 6

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt In a right-angled triangle, tan theta = 7/24. Find theta to 1 decimal place.
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Question 7

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Find the area of a triangle with sides 10 cm and 13 cm enclosing an angle of 30 degrees.
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Question 8

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt In a triangle, side a=10 cm is opposite 40 degrees. Find side b opposite 65 degrees, to 1 decimal place.
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Question 9

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Two sides of a triangle are 7 cm and 9 cm with included angle 60 degrees. Find the third side to 2 decimal places.
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Question 10

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt What is the three-figure bearing for due east?
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Question 11

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt What is the three-figure bearing for north-west?
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Question 12

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt An angle at the centre of a circle is 116 degrees. Find the angle at the circumference subtended by the same arc.
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Question 13

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt A tangent touches a circle at T and OT is a radius. Find the angle between OT and the tangent.
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Question 14

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Find (3,-2) + (-5,7).
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Question 15

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Find the magnitude of the vector (6,8).
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Question 16

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Points A and B have position vectors (2,1) and (8,5). Find the position vector of their midpoint.
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Question 17

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Find the determinant of the matrix [[2,1],[3,-1]].
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Question 18

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Multiply the matrix [[1,2],[0,3]] by the column vector [4,-1].
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Question 19

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Reflect the point (4,-7) in the x-axis.
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Question 20

Short Answer - 3.00 marks

Prompt Rotate the point (3,-2) through 90 degrees anticlockwise about the origin.
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Question 21

Short Answer - 4.00 marks

Prompt Evaluate (1.2 x 10^3)(3 x 10^-2).
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Question 22

Short Answer - 4.00 marks

Prompt Decrease ZWL 750 by 12%.
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Question 23

Short Answer - 4.00 marks

Prompt Solve x^2 - 5x - 24 = 0.
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Question 24

Short Answer - 4.00 marks

Prompt A line has gradient 2. Find the gradient of a line perpendicular to it.
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Question 25

Short Answer - 4.00 marks

Prompt Find the median of 4, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 20.
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Question 26

Short Answer - 4.00 marks

Prompt P(A)=0.7, P(B)=0.5 and P(A intersection B)=0.3. Find P(A union B).
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Question 27

Short Answer - 4.00 marks

Prompt Using pi=3.142, find the total surface area of a closed cylinder of radius 4 cm and height 6 cm.
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Question 28

Short Answer - 4.00 marks

Prompt y varies inversely as x. If y=15 when x=4, find y when x=10.
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Question 29

Short Answer - 4.00 marks

Prompt Add the matrices [[1,2],[3,4]] and [[2,-1],[0,5]].
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Question 30

Short Answer - 4.00 marks

Prompt Rotate the point (-2,7) through 180 degrees about the origin.
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