SPECI MEN PAPER 4

Structured questions;
Extended level

1. Beatrice has an income of $40 000 in one year.
(a) She pays:
no tax on the rst $10 000 of her income;
10 % tax on the next $10 000 of her income;
25 % tax on the rest of her income.
Calculate
(i) the total amount of tax Beatrice pays, [2]
(ii) the total amount of tax as a percentage of the $40 000. [2]
(b) Beatrice pays a yearly rent of $10 800.
After she has paid her tax, rent and bills, she has $12 000.
Calculate how much Beatrice spends on bills.
[1]
(c) Beatrice divides the $12 000 between shopping and saving
in the ratio
shopping : saving = 5 : 3.
(i) Calculate how much Beatrice spends on shopping in one year. [2]
(ii) What fraction of the original $40 000 does Beatrice save?
Give your answer in its lowest terms.
[1]
(d) The rent of $10 800 is an increase of 25 % on her
previous rent.
Calculate her previous rent. [2]
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Paper 4 Q1 November 2008
2.
B A
C
(x + 4) cm
x cm
y
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(a) When the area of triangle ABC is 48 cm
2
,
(i) show that x
2
4x 96 0, [2]
(ii) solve the equation x
2
4x 96 0, [2]
(iii) write down the length of AB.
[1]
(b) When tany
1
6
, nd the value of x.
[2]
(c) When the length of AC is 9 cm,
(i) show that 2x
2
8x 65 0, [2]
(ii) solve the equation 2x
2
8x 65 0,
(Show your working and give your answers
correct to 2 decimal places.) [4]
(iii) calculate the perimeter of triangle ABC. [1]
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Paper 4 Q2 November 2008
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3. (a)
Bag A
Bag B
Nadia must choose a ball from Bag A or from Bag B.
The probability that she chooses Bag A is
2
3
.
Bag A contains 5 white and 3 black balls.
Bag B contains 6 white and 2 black balls.
The tree diagram below shows some of this information.
p
r
s
Bag A
Bag B
black ball
white ball
black ball
white ball
2
3 q
5
8
(i) Find the values of p, q, r and s. [3]
(ii) Find the probability that Nadia chooses Bag A and then a white ball. [2]
(iii) Find the probability that Nadia chooses a white ball.
[2]
(b) Another bag contains 7 green balls and 3 yellow balls.
Sani takes three balls out of the bag, without replacement.
(i) Find the probability that all three balls he chooses are yellow. [2]
(ii) Find the probability that at least one of the three balls he chooses is
green. [1]
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Paper 4 Q3 June 2008
4. [The surface area of a sphere of radius r is 4pr
2
and the volume is
4
3
pr
3
.]
(a) A solid metal sphere has a radius of 35 cm.
One cubic centimetre of the metal has a mass of 56 grams.
Calculate
(i) the surface area of the sphere, [2]
(ii) the volume of the sphere, [2]
(iii) the mass of the sphere. [2]
(b)
8 cm
16 cm 16 cm
h
Diagram 1 Diagram 2
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Diagram 1 shows a cylinder with a diameter of 16 cm.
It contains water to a depth of 8 cm.
Two spheres identical to the sphere in part (a) are placed in the water. This is
shown in Diagram 2.
Calculate h, the new depth of water in the cylinder. [4]
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(c) A dierent metal sphere has a mass of 1 kilogram.
One cubic centimetre of this metal has a mass of 48 grams.
Calculate the radius of this sphere. [3]
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Paper 4 Q4 November 2007
5.
North
North
A
B
C
80
115
40 km
60 km
Island
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To avoid an island, a ship travels 40 kilometres from A to B and then 60
kilometres from B to C.
The bearing of B from A is 0808 and angle ABC is 1158.
(a) The ship leaves A at 11 55.
It travels at an average speed of 35 km/h.
Calculate, to the nearest minute, the time it arrives at C. [3]
(b) Find the bearing of
(i) A from B, [1]
(ii) C from B. [1]
(c) Calculate the straight line distance AC. [4]
(d) Calculate angle BAC. [3]
(e) Calculate how far C is east of A. [3]
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Paper 4 Q5 November 2008
6.
0
A
B
C
D
y
x
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
1
2
3
4
5
1
2
4
5
3
The pentagon OABCD is shown on the grid above.
(a) Write as column vectors
(i) OD
!
, [1]
(ii) BC
!
. [1]
(b) Describe fully the single transformation which maps the
side BC onto the side OD. [2]
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(c) The shaded area inside the pentagon is dened by
5 inequalities.
One of these inequalities is y 4
1
2
x 4:
Find the other 4 inequalities. [5]
Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics 0580
Paper 4 Q6 June 2008
7. (a) The quiz scores of a class of n students are shown in the table.
Quiz score 6 7 8 9
Frequency (number of students) 9 3 a 5
The mean score is 7.2. Find
(i) a, [3]
(ii) n, [1]
(iii) the median score. [1]
(b) 200 students take a mathematics test.
The cumulative frequency diagram shows the results.
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
40 30 20 10 50
0
Cumulative
frequency
( x marks)
Mark (x)
Write down
(i) the median mark, [1]
(ii) the lower quartile, [1]
(iii) the upper quartile, [1]
(iv) the inter-quartile range, [1]
(v) the lowest possible mark scored by the top
40 students,
[1]
(vi) the number of students scoring more than
25 marks. [1]
(c) Another group of students takes an English test.
The results are shown in the histogram.
40 30 20 10 50 60 70 80 90 100
5
4
3
2
1
0
Frequency
density
Mark (x)
100 students score marks in the range 50 < x475.
(i) How many students score marks in the range 0 < x450? [1]
(ii) How many students score marks in the range 75 < x4100?
[1]
(iii) Calculate an estimate of the mean mark of this
group of students. [4]
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Paper 4 Q7 November 2006
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8. (a)
x
2
40
2x + 4
x + 2
x
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The diagram shows a trapezium.
Two of its angles are 908.
The lengths of the sides are given in terms of x.
The perimeter is 62 units.
(i) Write down a quadratic equation in x to show this information.
Simplify your equation. [2]
(ii) Solve your quadratic equation. [2]
(iii) Write down the only possible value of x. [1]
(iv) Calculate the area of the trapezium. [2]
(b)
y + 2
2y 1
y
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The diagram shows a right-angled triangle.
The lengths of the sides are given in terms of y.
(i) Show that 2y
2
8y 3 0. [3]
(ii) Solve the equation 2y
2
8y 3 0, giving your answers to 2
decimal places. [4]
(iii) Calculate the area of the triangle. [2]
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Paper 4 Q8 June 2006
9.
Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3
Not to scale
The rst three diagrams in a sequence are shown above.
The diagrams are made up of dots and lines. Each line is one centimetre long.
(a) Make a sketch of the next diagram in the sequence.
[1]
(b) The table below shows some information about the diagrams.
Diagram 1 2 3 4 n
Area 1 4 9 16 x
Number of dots 4 9 16 p y
Number of one centimetre lines 4 12 24 q z
(i) Write down the values of p and q. [2]
(ii) Write down each of x, y and z in terms of n. [4]
(c) The total number of one centimetre lines in the rst n diagrams is given by the
expression
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2
3
n
3
fn
2
gn:
(i) Use n = 1 in this expression to show that f g
10
3
. [1]
(ii) Use n = 2 in this expression to show that 4f 2g
32
3
. [2]
(iii) Find the values of f and g. [3]
(iv) Find the total number of one centimetre lines in the rst 10
diagrams. [1]
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Paper 4 Q9 June 2007
10.
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 32 33 34 35 36
A 3 by 3 square can be chosen from the 6 by 6 grid above.
x b c
d e f
g h i
(a) One of these squares is
8 9 10
14 15 16
20 21 22
In this square, x 8, c 10, g 20 and i 22.
For this square, calculate the value of
(i) i x g c, [1]
(ii) cg xi. [1]
(b)
x b c
d e f
g h i
(i) c x 2. Write down g and i in terms of x. [2]
(ii) Use your answers to part(b)(i) to show that i x g c is
constant. [1]
(iii) Use your answers to part(b)(i) to show that
cg xi is constant. [2]
(c) The 6 by 6 grid is replaced by a 5 by 5 grid as shown.
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
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A 3 by 3 square can be chosen from the 5 by 5 grid.
x b c
d e f
g h i
For any 3 by 3 square chosen from this 5 by 5 grid, calculate the value of
(i) i x g c, [1]
(ii) cg xi. [1]
(d) A 3 by 3 square is chosen from an n by n grid.
(i) Write down the value of i x g c. [1]
(ii) Find g and i in terms of x and n. [2]
(iii) Find cg xi in its simplest form. [1]
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Paper 4 Q10 June 2008
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