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EASTERN CAPE
EDUCATION
NATIONAL
SENIOR CERTIFICATE
GRADE 12
SEPTEMBER 2012
MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1
MARKS: 150
TIME: 3 hours
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2 MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 (SEPTEMBER 2012)
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
Read the following instructions carefully before answering the questions.
1. This question paper consists of SIX questions. Answer ALL the
questions.
2. QUESTION 2.1 and QUESTION 2.2.1 must be answered on the attached
ANNEXURES A and B respectively. Write your name in the space
provided and hand in the annexures with the ANSWER BOOK.
3. Number the questions correctly according to the numbering system used
in this question paper.
4. An approved calculator (non-programmable and non-graphical) may be
used, unless stated otherwise.
5. ALL calculations must be shown clearly.
6. ALL the final answers must be rounded off to TWO decimal places, unless
stated otherwise.
7. Start EACH question on a NEW page.
8. Write neatly and legibly.
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(SEPTEMBER 2012) MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 3
QUESTION 1
You and your English cousin, John, are both in matric this year and have been
comparing your last 3 Mathematical Literacy assignment marks.
1.1 Your marks are as follows:
; and
1.1.1 Convert these marks to percentages.
(Round off your answers to the nearest percentage.) (3)
1.1.2 Calculate your average percentage for your marks. (3)
1.2 John’s marks were as follows:
; and
1.2.1 Convert these marks to percentages.
(Round off your answers to the nearest percentage.) (3)
1.2.2 Calculate John’s average percentage for his marks. (3)
1.2.3 Who did the best in their work? (1)
1.3 You are planning to go on holiday and visit your family over the Christmas
season. You have been asked by your aunt to bring your mother’s recipe
for her milk tart filling as she would like to make it for the family tea on
Christmas Day.
You have been given the recipe by your mother and these are the
ingredients required:
MILK TART FILLING
540 mℓ milk
85 g flour
1 pinch salt
30g margarine
100g sugar
Cinnamon sugar to taste
Mom’s tip –
Secret to get it to set right is in the baking!
Bake at 220 ℃ for 20 minutes and then reduce heat to 200 ℃ for the last
10 minutes.
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Your aunt is used to using imperial measures so you are going to have to change
the recipe for her before you go on holiday. In the front of the recipe book is the
following table:
Mass
Ounces to grams 1 ounce (oz) 25 grams (g)
Pounds to grams 1 pound (lb) 400 grams (g)
Volume
Pints to millilitres 1 pint 560 ml
Tablespoons to
1 tablespoon 12,5 ml
millilitres
Teaspoons to millilitres 1 teaspoon 5ml
1.3.1 Change the amounts required for the milk, flour, margarine and
sugar to imperial measurements using the table above. (4 x 2) (8)
1.3.2 Change the degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit using the following
formula;
℉ = (9/5 x ℃) + 32 (2 x 2) (4)
1.4 To be able to do go on holiday s you will need to do quite a bit of saving in
order to pay for your plane ticket and have enough spending money while
overseas.
Your plane ticket is going to cost you R6 573,00 return. The travel agent
you are using is going to allow you to use their, “Fly now, Pay later”
scheme.
This means that you will be able to pay a 10% deposit and pay the
remainder off monthly over 2 years and you will be charged 15% p.a. using
simple interest.
Use the formula; A = P (1 + rt) or Where A = future value
P = starting value
A = P + (P x r x t) r = interest rate
t = time in years
1.4.1 Calculate how much deposit you must pay. (3)
1.4.2 Calculate how much you will pay back for your plane ticket over 2
years. (4)
1.4.3 Calculate what your monthly payment will be. (3)
1.4.4 How else could you pay for this plane ticket? (1)
1.5 You need pocket money for your holiday. You have decided you want
£500 to spend. The exchange rate is £1 = R 12,56.
Calculate how much money you need to save to get £500. (2)
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(SEPTEMBER 2012) MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 5
QUESTION 2
Sivu buys beads wholesale and makes beaded jewellery and beaded traditional
clothing, which she sells at a craft market. The following invoice shows what
she bought one day.
BEAD PARADISE: for all the beads, string and material you will ever need.
Invoice No. 23521 Date: 18/3/12
Quantity Description Unit Price Amount
6 kg Glass beads R56,00/kg
100 Clay Beads R1,80 ea. 100 x 1,80 R 180,00
150 Wooden Beads R1,85 ea.
175 Brass Beads R2,50 ea.
2 Rolls String R45,00/roll 2 x 45 R 90,00
20 metres Linen R57,00/m
Odds and Ends R48,00 1 x 48 R 48,00
Sub-Total
14% VAT
Total
2.1 Using ANNEXURE A complete the Amount column for the table above.
Remember to work out and add the 14% VAT before working out the total
on the invoice. (10)
2.2 Sivu has fixed costs of R375 every month. Her other expenses are for
the materials she uses to make her jewellery and beaded traditional
clothing.
One month she decided to keep a record in table form of all her expenses
and sale of jewellery to see how her business was doing.
Number of 0 10 20 30 40 100 150 200
items sold
Expenses 375 425 475 525 575 875 1 125 1 375
Income 0 150 300 450 600 1 500 2 250 3 000
2.2.1 Using the data from the table draw a line graph showing Sivu’s
expenses and a graph showing her income on the same set of
axes. Use ANNEXURE B to plot your graphs. (7)
2.2.2 Using your graphs work out how much Sivu must sell to break
even. (2)
2.2.3 Calculate how much profit Sivu made this month, if she sold 200
items. (2)
2.2.4 With the use of the graph find out how many items she must sell
to have an income of R1 800 for the month. (2)
2.2.5 With the use of the graph, find out what Sivu’s total expenses will
be if she makes 180 items. (2)
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6 MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 (SEPTEMBER 2012)
QUESTION 3
Statistics South Africa published the following information on their website:
Electricity used by each province during 2010 [in gigawatt hours (GWh)]
Western Eastern Northern Free KwaZulu North Gauteng Mpumalanga Limpopo
Cape Cape Cape State Natal West
25 983 9 449 4 724 10 054 47 243 25 984 66 140 35 432 11 811
A pie graph to illustrate this information is given below:
3.1 Write the amount of electricity used by the Eastern Cape, rounded off to
the nearest thousand. (1)
3.2 3.2.1 Which province used the most electricity during 2010? (1)
3.2.2 What percentage of electricity did this province use? (1)
3.3 Which province(s) used 2% of the electricity during 2010? (2)
3.4 Calculate the total number of gigawatt hours of electricity used by the
whole of South Africa in 2010. (2)
3.5 What is the difference in the number of gigawatt hours used by the
Western Cape and KwaZulu Natal? (2)
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3.6 Why do you think there is such a larger difference in usage of electricity
between Gauteng and the Eastern Cape? Give TWO valid reasons. (2)
3.7 The table below shows the ESKOM HOMEPOWER, non-local authority
rates which gets used to charge people for electricity when they live
outside the local municipalities
Energy Charge Environmental levy
Cents per kWh charge
Rand per day
Block 1 ≤ 50 kWh 60,80 2,28
Block 2 51 – 350 kWh 64,39 2,28
Block 3 351 – 600 kWh 84,76 2,28
Block 4 >600 kWh 93,18 2,28
3.7.1 If Oakley Farm used 49,5 kWh of electricity last month (30 days),
how much would they have to pay for their electricity?
(Assume the month has 30 days.) (3)
3.7.2 The next month Oakley Farm used 65,75 kWh of electricity
(31 days). How much are they going to have to pay this month? (4)
3.7.3 What do you think the environmental levy charge is for? (1)
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8 MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 (SEPTEMBER 2012)
QUESTION 4
Mr Tshabala has been asked to hand in a quote for the work required in Mrs
Smith’s new house before work can start.
The lounge is the following shape:
6m
10 ( )
4m
4.1 What is the length of ( )? (1)
4.2 What is the perimeter of the lounge? (4)
Use the formula: Perimeter =
Let = 3,14 (4)
4.3 What is the floor area of the lounge?
Use the formula: Area = +(
Let = 3,14 (4)
4.4 If the wood for the floor and the sanding and varnishing of the floor costs
R265/m², how much will it cost to lay, sand and varnish the lounge floor? (2)
4.5 The skirting board around the perimeter will have to be replaced.
How much will this cost if the wood costs R55/m (sanded and varnished)? (2)
4.6 Mr Tshabala knows that with 3 labourers working on the job it will take
15 hrs. The labourers are paid R65 per hour each.
How much will the labour cost be to do this job? (3)
4.7 What will the total cost be to Mr Tshabalala? (4)
4.8 Mr Tshabala will add 65% to the cost to cover his business costs and give
him a profit for his business. How much profit is this? (2)
4.9 What will be the total cost of the quote for Mrs Smith? (3)
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(SEPTEMBER 2012) MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 9
QUESTION 5
Recently a survey was done at two small businesses in town. One of the things
recorded was the monthly salaries of the people employed.
Monthly salaries of people employed (Rand)
Joe’s 2 200 2 400 2 400 2 600 2 800 2 800 2 600 2 200 2 300 2 500 2 500 2 700
Fashions
Mpho’s 2 300 3 500 1 900 2 200 2 600 3 100 2 800 2 700 3 000 1 500 2 000 2 400
Factory
5.1 Calculate the mean salary for both businesses. (2 x 3) (6)
5.2 What is the range for each company? (2 x 2) (4)
5.3 Calculate the median for both businesses. (2 x 2) (4)
5.4 Calculate the mode for each company. (2 x 2) (4)
5.5 Both businesses claimed to be the better salary payers. Which company
do you think pays the best salaries? Use the calculations you have just
done to support your answer. (3)
5.6 In which company would you prefer to work if you are starting ‘at the
bottom’ and you will be getting the minimum salary? Explain your choice. (2)
5.7 In which company would you prefer to work if you were a manager earning
a salary close to the maximum? Explain your choice. (2)
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10 MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 (SEPTEMBER 2012)
QUESTION 6
Mpho’s Factory has decided to manufacture rectangular concrete dustbins for
the Municipality. Below is a scale drawing of the dustbin and the real life
measurements are given.
Outside height =1m
Outside length =1m
Outside width = 50 cm
6.1 Measure the outside height of the bin in the drawing. (1)
6.2 Write down the scale of the drawing of the bin. (3)
6.3 The dustbin is made of concrete that is 5 cm thick all the way round.
That means that the inside measurements are as follows:
Inside height = 95 cm
Inside length = 90 cm
Inside width = 40 cm
Calculate the inside volume of the dustbin. Give your answer in .
Use the formula: Volume = (3)
6.4 Calculate the volume of concrete needed to make ONE dustbin.
Give your answer in
(Hint: calculate the volume of the whole dustbin and take away the
inside volume.) (5)
6.5 If concrete costs R255,50 per , how much will it cost to make ONE
dustbin? (3)
6.6 Concrete is heavy, so the municipality has asked the company to make
plastic dustbins the same shape and size as the concrete ones. If the
plastic used costs R185,95 per , how much will it cost to make ONE
plastic dustbin? (3)
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TOTAL: 150
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(SEPTEMBER 2012) MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 11
ANNEXURE A
QUESTION 2.1
NAME:
BEAD PARADISE: for all the beads, string and material you will ever need.
Invoice No. 23521 Date: 18/3/12
Quantity Description Unit Price Amount
6 kg Glass beads R56,00/kg
100 Clay Beads R1,80 ea. 100 x 1,80 R 180,00
150 Wooden Beads R1,85 ea.
175 Brass Beads R2,50 ea.
2 Rolls String R45,00/roll 2 x 45 R 90,00
20 metres Linen R57,00/m
Odds and Ends R48,00 1 x 48 R 48,00
Sub-Total
14% VAT
Total
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ANNEXURE B
QUESTION 2.2.1
NAME:
SIVU’S BUSINESS
Expenses / Income
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