Catholic Regional College Sydenham
Victorian Certificate of Education
GENERAL MATHEMATICS
Semester One Exam Revision 2024
Student Name:______________________________________
Teacher’s Name: ____________________________________
Reading time: 10 minutes
Writing time: 90 minutes
SECTION A – Multiple Choice Questions: _____/25
SECTION B – Short Answer Questions: _____/40
TOTAL: ______/65
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, MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS BOOK
Section A - MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
The follow information relates to Questions 1 and 2.
The profit made by a contractor on each of his last 50 jobs is summarized in the histogram below.
Question 1
The percentage of jobs on which the contractor made a profit of less than $400 is
A 3%
B 5%
C 6%
D 9%
E 18%
2
, Question 2
The distribution of profits
A is negatively skewed
B is positively skewed
C is symmetric
D is discrete
E has outliers
The information below relates to Questions 3 and 4.
A shopkeeper considers whether it is worth trading on Sundays. He records the number of
transactions made on Saturdays and Sundays over a long period.
That data displayed is in the parallel boxplots shown below.
Question 3
The difference between the interquartile ranges of the distributions is
A 5
B 10
C 15
D 20
E 25
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Victorian Certificate of Education
GENERAL MATHEMATICS
Semester One Exam Revision 2024
Student Name:______________________________________
Teacher’s Name: ____________________________________
Reading time: 10 minutes
Writing time: 90 minutes
SECTION A – Multiple Choice Questions: _____/25
SECTION B – Short Answer Questions: _____/40
TOTAL: ______/65
1
, MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS BOOK
Section A - MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
The follow information relates to Questions 1 and 2.
The profit made by a contractor on each of his last 50 jobs is summarized in the histogram below.
Question 1
The percentage of jobs on which the contractor made a profit of less than $400 is
A 3%
B 5%
C 6%
D 9%
E 18%
2
, Question 2
The distribution of profits
A is negatively skewed
B is positively skewed
C is symmetric
D is discrete
E has outliers
The information below relates to Questions 3 and 4.
A shopkeeper considers whether it is worth trading on Sundays. He records the number of
transactions made on Saturdays and Sundays over a long period.
That data displayed is in the parallel boxplots shown below.
Question 3
The difference between the interquartile ranges of the distributions is
A 5
B 10
C 15
D 20
E 25
3
