MATHS COMPETITION: Manuel Mallia is disqualified from entering, which is a shame, because the figures don’t reach a billion
The competition questions have been compiled by H. P. Baxxter. The first prize is Spanish cocktails in the presence of Mrs Michelle Muscat in the Ambassadors Room at the Auberge de Castille. Second prize: hog roast with Joseph Muscat, Sandro Chetcuti and John Dalli at Girgenti Palace. Third prize: a frolic in the Mainguard fountain with the Frog Prince and his flippers (jerrycan fetishists only).
SEC Mathematics – Paper B
Question 1:
If the Cabinet cost Eur 40 million between 2008 and 2013, and Cabinet costs have gone up by 71%, how many passports, at Eur 650,000 per passport does Manuel Mallia need to sell each day in order to make up the cost?
Paper A:
a) If the Cabinet cost Eur 40 million between 2008 and 2013, and Cabinet costs have gone up by 71%, how many passports, at Eur 650,000 for the main applicant, an average of two retired parents at Eur 50,000, and a spouse and two children at Eur 25,000, does Manuel Mallia have to sell in order to make up the cost after handing over the commission to Henley & Partners. Give your answer in passports per day.
b) How many passports will Manuel Mallia have to sell by the end of the fiscal year in 2018, assuming an inflation rate of 0.5%?
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H.P. Baxxter is a teacher.
Sure. Here’s the next English homework. Composition, between 500 and 700 words. Choose one of the following:
1. Write a story ending with the words “and that is how I found 500,000 Euros under my mattress”.
2. Electronic banking will never replace cash. Discuss.
3. My life as a Maltese passport.
They’re too fantastical, I prefer factual writing. Oh, no, wait…
I have a question that needs clarification before I attempt to answer Paper A. Perhaps you can clarify this for all candidates, to be “fjer.”
Question (b) says “How many passports will Manuel Mallia have to sell by the end of the fiscal year in 2018, assuming an inflation rate of 0.5%?”
Are you sure Manwel Mallia is inflating ONLY at the rate of 0.5%?
ciccio,
The Secondary Education Certificate Examination Board will not enter into correspondence with candidates. These questions were selected on the basis of the approved mathematics syllabus. Note, however, that many candidates successfully completed the assigned examination questions, including Question (1) in both Paper A and Paper B. It is the candidates’ responsibility to prepare themselves thoroughly for examinations.
May I remind you that you may ask for a revision of paper, under the rules and regulations of the Secondary Education Certificate, by filling out the attached form. The fee of EUR500,000 is to be sent IN CASH ONLY. No other form of payment will be accepted.
Regards,
An overpaid and mocking secretary.
@ Catherine
I don’t think so.
I watched Times Talk on TVM earlier. Manwel Mallia was blaming the “bloggggersss and other persons” with the PN for the negative publicity given to his Sale of EU Citizenship scheme in the international press.
What an arrogant Minister. The former criminal lawyer resorts to attacking free speech and the social media in order to defend his poor judgement in devising a scheme which is only intended to make a quick buck but which his government deceivingly describes as an “investment program” (without of course subjecting the scheme to investment regulation).
Typical dictatorial mindset by the Labour Minister who wants to secretly sell Maltese citizenship to anyone with euro 650,000 without any strings attached.
Rather than withdrawing the secrecy clause while in Sri Lanka, the Prime Minister had better withdraw the Minister in charge of the scheme – perhaps he can do that from Miami.
And another thing about the Minister. He spent precious minutes heaping praise on Henley & Partners, describing them as a professional organisation, reminding viewers that even the PN government had used their services about the residency scheme.
But then he could not answer a simple question: why did the government, of which he forms part, not follow the advice of Henley & Partners to devise a scheme based on investment?
Why would a government pay money to obtain the advice of a “professional organisation” and then ignore the advice obtained?
At first he used the argument that this sale is not a sale because its going to attract talent and investment from rich high worth individuals in Malta and two minutes later he rubbished the very same idea, namely, having rich high worth individuals reside here, as this would push up property prices as happened in the 1960’s.
I just fell off my chair laughing at the silly lying bastard.
What he did not say is that the government said that it will be using the proceeds from the scheme for social housing. Now that means either more development of virgin land or, most probably, the government entering the property market to buy existing stock from Sandro Chetcuti and his friends at the Malta Developers Association.
Now what will happen to property prices if the government does that?
220 passports if the bundle of 6 is taken.
And if one chooses the fast-tracking option?
H.P., these questions are very difficult for us.
I speculate that in Malta, it is only a god-sent genius professor like Edward Scicluna that can answer such difficult questions.
http://markanthonysammut.blogspot.com/2013/11/no-folks-secrecy-clause-is-not-yet-gone.html
How much is the commission?
Oh Baxxter, had you asked me yesterday I would have answered you. regretfully today such questions are too hard for me. The effects of the MINUSIQ pill have worked. I am now one of the many. So happy, can’t understand a thing on Defni’s bloggger.
Baxxter is trying to alienate us from the Budget. The budget that’s so good for the families.
It’s a massive conspiracy. Henley & Partners. H&P. H.P.
As Dr. Mallia himself would answer “Ir-risposta tinghata f’seduta ohra”.
Joseph Muscat would rather share a BURGER with his cronies.
What about including the producers of the spot featured in Ballaro for depicting that the citizenship will be sold for 365,000?
Can you please write the questions in Mandarin? It is now the only language that makes any sense.
I cannot speak Mandarin yet. I intend to learn it during my forthcoming lengthy imprisonment in a reeducation camp somewhere in Manchuria, if I survive long enough.