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SENIOR CERTIFICATE
GRADE 12
SEPTEMBER 2014
MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1
MARKS: 150
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2 MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 (SEPTEMBER 2014)
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
1. This question paper consists of FIVE questions.
2. Answer ALL the questions.
3. Answer QUESTION 1.3.4 on ANNEXURE A and QUESTION 5.2.3 on
ANNEXURE B. Write your centre number and examination number in the
spaces provided on the ANNEXURES and hand in the ANNEXURES with
your ANSWER BOOK.
4. Number the questions correctly according to the numbering system used
in this question paper.
5. Diagrams are not necessarily drawn to scale.
6. Round off ALL the final answers to TWO decimal places, unless stated
otherwise.
7. Indicate units of measurement, where applicable.
8. Start EACH question on a NEW page.
9. Show ALL calculations clearly.
10 Write neatly and legibly.
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(SEPTEMBER 2014) MATHEMATICAL LITERACY P1 3
QUESTION 1
1.1 John started a permanent job at Balloon Petrol Station on the second day
of December 2013. He works 8 hours a day and cannot exceed 40 hours a
week, excluding overtime and public holidays. Workers are paid R35 per
hour when they work on a public holiday and overtime. December
calendar is available at the ANNEXURES.
Balloon Petrol Station Employee Name: ID number:
Box 3, Amaway, 4300 John Mate 7803152566083
Employee code: 4356 Period end date: Tax no: 0144263983
Job title: Attendant 31/12/2013
Date engaged:
01/12/2013
Rate /hour: R17,50 Overtime/Public holiday rate: R35 /hour
(3 days)
Income Amount
Basic salary R2 660,00 Weekly deductions: Amount
Overtime R---------
(i) Unemployment R7,00
(3 days)
Insurance Fund(UIF)
(ii) Pay As You Earn R0,00
(PAYE)
(iii) Pension Fund R57,00
(iv) Motor industry R2,50
Total QUESTION 1.1.2 Total R66,50
Income
1.1.1 How old was John when he started his permanent job? (2)
1.1.2 How much will he earn as a gross salary at the end of the month
including the public holidays? (3)
1.1.3 He decided to save 5% of his basic salary starting at the end of
December 2013 until December 2014 (assuming his basic salary
remains constant). How much will he save as an initial payment in
December 2013? (2)
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1.2 Blue Ribbon furniture shop owner, Barry buys queen-size beds for
R2 500,00 and sells them for R5 000,00 with a mattress.
1.2.1 How much is the mark up amount on each queen-size bed? (2)
1.2.2 Miriam bought 6 queen-size beds for her bed-and-breakfast
establishment. Barry charge customers R1 000,00 for delivery.
How much money will she spend on buying all these queen-size
beds, including transport? (2)
1.3 The fixed monthly rental cost for this shop is R10 000. Study the table
below and answer the questions that follow.
Barry’s income and expenses for running his shop.
No. of beds(n) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Expenses 10 000 12 500 15 000 17 500 20 000 22 500 B
(R)
Income 0 5 000 A 15 000 20 000 25 000 30 000
1.3.1 Write down the formula for his total costs using C (cost) and n
(amount of beds):
Cost = ... (2)
1.3.2 Calculate the values of A and B in the above tables. (4)
1.3.3 Use the table and determine the break-even point. (2)
1.3.4 Draw the graphs of the Income and Expenses for Barry’s shop on
the same grid in ANNEXURE A. Label the graphs clearly as Income
and Expenses. (4)
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1.4 The table below shows the actual impact of projected tariff increases on
the Dowel family’s small household. Municipal monthly account for this
small household is shown in the table below: The formula given below
may be used:
new value − original value
% increase = x 100%
original value
Rates and services Current year Budget year % increase
charged
Refuse removal R140,00 A 12%
Sanitation R231,99 R262,61 13,2%
Water consumption R170,86 R188,80 B
Electricity R630,50 R699,86 11%
consumption (non-
prepaid)
Property rates R380,98 R438,13 15%
Subtotal excluding C R1 746,20
VAT
VAT on services R217,61 R244,47
Total R1 771,94 R1 990,67
Use the information in the table to calculate the values of A, B and C.
(2 + 3 + 2) (7)
1.5 Luna borrowed R5 000,00 to pay for his municipality rates from his mother
at 7,5% simple interest per annum. They had an agreement that he will
pay back the whole sum plus the interest in equal amounts over a period of
three years.
1.5.1 How much interest will he pay for one year? (2)
1.5.2 Calculate the total amount that he pays back. (2)
1.5.3 How much was his monthly instalment? (2)
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QUESTION 2
2.1 Apple District Municipality supplied the hundred and eight households of
Quko community with six water tanks for the collection of clean drinking
water as they have no access to clean drinking water. The Quko
community held a special meeting, where it was decided that the six tanks
would be shared amongst all the households. The municipality filled the
tanks with clean water and has undertaken to supply them with
continuous drinking water should the need arise.
The diameter of each tank is
260 cm and the height is
418 cm.
2.1.1 How many households share one tank? (2)
2.1.2 One tank costs R4 950,00 including delivery. How much did the
municipality pay for the tanks? (2)
2.1.3 What will be the area of the base of one tank in cm2, if the
diameter is 260 cm?
Use the formula:
Area of the base of the tank = 𝝅r2 , where 𝝅 = 3,142 (2)
2.1.4 Determine the volume of one tank in m3.
Use the formula: Volume = 𝝅r2h , where 𝝅 = 3,142 (3)
2.1.5 If 1 m3 = 1 000 ℓ, how many litres of water will this tank hold? (2)
2.1.6 One household is restricted to use 2,1 kilolitres a week. How long
will one tank last the households? Give your answer to the
nearest day. (3)
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2.2 Layla likes baking chocolate muffins at home. She wants to bake 24
muffins in one tray at 180 °C for 25 minutes.
Ingredients
(24 muffins)
1 kg snowflake
chocolate
muffin mix
4 extra-large
eggs
1
310 ml (14)
cup cooking oil
400 mℓ water
[Source: fotosearch.com]
[
2.2.1 How many grams of snowflake chocolate muffin mix will she need
to bake 48 chocolate muffins? (2)
2.2.2 Convert 180 °C to °F
Use the formula: °F = (1,8 x oC) + 32° (2)
2.2.3 If she started baking at 05:30:56 am., what will be her finishing
time? (2)
2.2.4 She was approached by the Pet Primary School to serve their
1 117 learners with the chocolate muffins on the school’s birthday.
Each learner gets one muffin. How many trays of muffins will she
bake for the school? (3)
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2.3 The Minister of Health advised people to take care of their health. Doret
checked her health status using the Body Mass Index (BMI) chart below.
She wants to live a normal and healthy lifestyle.
Study the chart below and answer the questions that will follow.
2.3.1 What is the normal weight for a person whose height is 1,83 m? (2)
2.3.2 Doret weighs 110 kg and she is 1,68 m tall.
Calculate her Body Mass Index (BMI) using the formula:
mass in kilograms
BMI = 2
(height in meters) (3)
2.3.3 How would you categorise Doret’s health according to the BMI? (2)
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QUESTION 3
3.1 East London is located in the Eastern Cape on the South East coast of
South Africa. It is a nice place to visit during summer holidays because of
its weather, beaches and other tourists’ sites. It has approximately
400 000 residents. Study the map below and answer the questions based
on it.
[Source: http://www.sa-venues.com]
3.1.1 What do we call the place marked on the map with a square that
keeps fish, plants and other water creatures? (2)
3.1.2 Which national road will you use when travelling from Haven Hills
to Mthatha? (2)
3.1.3 The distance between Milner Estate and Stirling is 8 cm on the
map. Use the scale 1 : 50 000 to calculate the actual distance in
km. (3)
3.1.4 Which suburb is closer to the R102 road? (2)
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3.2 RDP houses are built with bricks to assist low income people with proper
houses. They have pitch roofs with the area of 51,8 m2. Study this floor
plan and answer the questions below it.
[Source: moladi.com/Lightweight-Construction-Method.htm]
3.2.1 How many windows are shown on the plan? (2)
3.2.2 How many doors are shown on the plan? (2)
3.2.3 Calculate the area of the bedroom opposite the lounge in m 2. (3)
3.2.4 How many boxes of tiles will you buy for the bedroom opposite the
lounge, if each box covers 1,1 m2? (2)
3.2.5 How much will you spend in total to tile the room in
QUESTION 3.2.4 if one box is R94,99 and the labour is
R60 per m2? (3)
3.2.6 Define an elevation plan. (2)
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QUESTION 4
4.1 Patty High School has 22 Grade 11B learners. Learners were asked to measure
their heights and weigh themselves using the bathroom scale provided by the
school for their Mathematical Literacy assignment. They recorded the data as
indicated in the tables below:
TABLE A: Boys
Mass (kg) 56 72 65 73 54 56 51 55 63 56 58 71
Height (m) 1,5 1,5 1,2 1,4 1,5 1,5 1,6 1,6 1,4 1,5 1,54 1,6
TABLE B: Girls
Mass (kg) 62 63 64 63 52 59 46 66 58 52
Height (m) 1,43 1,55 1,56 1,51 1,62 1,54 1,48 1,6 1,63 1,6
4.1.1 Arrange the data in TABLE A from the lowest mass value to the
highest value. (2)
4.1.2 Calculate the mean of mass values in TABLE A. (3)
4.1.3 Determine the median mass of the female. (2)
4.1.4 Which mass value in TABLE A is at the third quartile? (2)
4.1.5 Express the probability of getting a boy with a mass of 56 kg as a
percentage. (3)
4.1.6 Determine the modal weight of the whole class. (2)
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4.2 The table below shows the percentage distribution of employed women
and men aged 15–64 years by broad occupational category from
2007–2010 (if there were 13,1 million people).
TECHNICIAN/
ARTISAN/ CLERICAL/
YEAR GENDER MANAGER/ ELEMENTARY
OPERATOR SALES
PROFESSIONAL
FEMALE 27,7 11,5 34,9 25,9
2007
MALE 21,4 36,3 18,7 23,7
FEMALE 29,1 9,5 36,4 25,0
2008 MALE 23,3 35,6 18,0 23,2
FEMALE 29,4 8,3 38,2 24,1
2009 MALE 24,3 34,4 18,5 22,8
FEMALE 30,0 7,6 38,1 24,4
2010 MALE 24,4 33,1 20,1 22,4
[Source: Statistics SA]
4.2.1 In which year was there 36,3% of male artisan/operator? (2)
4.2.2 What percentage was for female elementary in 2010? (2)
4.2.3 How many people took part in this survey? (2)
4.2.4 How many male professionals were there in 2009? (3)
4.3 The graph below shows the typical weather at the Port Elizabeth Airport
(Port Elizabeth, South Africa) weather station over the course of an
average year. It is based on the historical records from 1994 to 2012.
Daily High and Low Temperature
4.3.1 Which day of the month, experienced the highest average
maximum temperature? (2)
4.3.2 Which month experienced the lowest average minimum
temperature? (2)
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4.4 Mandy received her R85 0000,00 Provident Fund payment from Daimler
Chrysler. Mandy wants to visit London and she calculated the costs for
her trip as follows: Flight – R9 387,00 return ticket, Passport – R400 00
and other things that cost her R2 200, 00 including a visa application.
4.4.1 Calculate the total cost for her trip. (2)
4.4.2 If 1 pound (£) = R10,69 ZAR (South African Rand), how many
pounds did she have for the trip? (2)
4.4.3 She received a gift of 200 Euro from one of the tourists in the
United States. How much did she receive in rands if 1 Euro =
R11,217? (2)
4.5 The box and whisker plots below represent the learner’s pulse rates of
two classes. The mean was the same for both classes.
CLASS B
71 83 87–89 95
CLASS A
73 82 86 90 101
Using the box and whisker plots above, determine:
4.5.1 The maximum value of class A. (2)
4.5.2 The inter-quartile range of class A. (2)
4.5.3 The class that has the higher pulse rate. (2)
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QUESTION 5
5.1 30 members of the Student Christian Organisation of Lithembe High
School took a trip to Jeffrey’s Bay with Ms Paya. Learners were
expected to pay for transport, accommodation and food. Their driver,
Leon covered 355 km in 4,5 hours. They will be accommodated at a
lodge that charges R410,00 for 5 people in one chalet for the two days
they will stay there. The bus charged them R8 550 for the trip. They
were asked to bring R75 for food.
5.1.1 How much does each child have to pay for the trip? (2)
5.1.2 They stopped at Grahamstown to have breakfast at the local
Wimpy. Ms Paya paid R25, 00 for each child, herself and Leon.
How much did she pay, including R23,00 for a tip? (3)
5.2 The Eastern Cape Education MEC announced the Grade12’s 2013
results and said that although the province was at the bottom of the class
in the country, it registered quality results. “In terms of provincial ranking
the Eastern Cape ranks fifth in terms of Bachelors university entrance
pass rate, fourth in terms of diplomas and third in terms of a Higher
Certificate pass rate in all provinces.”
[Source: Daily Dispatch:08/01/2014]
He compared the 2013 results with 2012 as follows:
YEAR 2012 2013
Distinctions 9 264 11 038
Bachelor passes 11 246 13 686
Diploma passes 16 148 19 179
Higher Certificates 11 998 13 950
5.2.1 Determine the difference in the number of Bachelor passes
(university entrance) between 2012 and in 2013. (2)
5.2.2 What is the trend of the Eastern Cape results? (2)
5.2.3 Represent the above information in a compound bar graph in
ANNEXURE B. (5)
5.3 Learners who had outstanding results received stationery. The total cost
for the stationery was R399,00. The Education Department received 5%
discount when buying these items. How much was paid by the Education
Department? (2)
5.4 The gift pack of the stationery that the learners received had a weight of
3,2 kg. Calculate the cost of the gift pack at R7,99/kg. (2)
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5.5 Learners were asked to bring the coins to school as one of the
fundraising methods. The coins from one of the classrooms were
recorded as follows:
Value of the coin 10c 20c 50c R1,00
Number of coins 50 25 15 5
5.5.1 Calculate the probability as a percentage that the coin from this
class is a 10 cent coin. (2)
5.5.2 What is the probability that the coin will not be a 20 cent coin? (2)
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CENTRE NUMBER:
EXAMINATION NUMBER:
ANNEXURE A
QUESTION 1.3.4
No. of beds (n) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Income (R) 0 5 000 A 15 000 20 000 25 000 30 000 R35 000
Expenditure (R) 10 000 12 500 15 000 17 500 20 000 6000 7 050 B
40000 Income and Expense for Barry's Queen Beds
35000
30000
25000
Amount (in Rands)
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Number of beds
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CENTRE NUMBER:
EXAMINATION NUMBER:
ANNEXURE B
QUESTION 5.2.3
EASTERN CAPE RESULTS 2012–2013
25 000
20 000
Number of learners
15 000
2012
10 000
2013
5 000
0
Distinctions Bachelor Diploma passes Higher
passes Certificates
Matric pass categories
December 2013
M T W T F S S
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
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