2

The number of tennis balls (T) in the diagram is given by the formula
T=

1
2

n(n+1),

where n is the number of rows.

The diagram above has 4 rows.
How many tennis balls will there be in a diagram with 20 rows?

Calculate the value of

[1]

Answer

[1]

2(sin15)(cos15).

Write down the next term in each of the following sequences.

(a) 8.2,

(b) 1,

Answer

6.2,

3,

4.2,

6,

2.2,

10,

0.2,

15,

Answer(a)

[1]

Answer(b)

[1]

Celine invests $ 800 for 5 months at 3 % simple interest per year.

Calculate the interest she receives.

Answer $

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[2]

1
2

(0.8) ,
From the numbers above, write down

0.8,

0.8 ,

(0.8)1,

(0.8)2.

(a) the smallest,

Answer(a)

[1]

Answer(b)

[1]

Answer(a)

[1]

Answer(b)

[1]

Answer(a)

[1]

Answer(b)

[1]

Answer(c)

[1]

(b) the largest.

f(x) = 10x.
(a) Calculate f(0.5).

(b) Write down the value of f 1(1).

Write the number 2381.597 correct to

(a) 3 significant figures,

(b) 2 decimal places,

(c) the nearest hundred.

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10 The mass of the Earth is

1
of the mass of the planet Saturn.
95

The mass of the Earth is 5.97 1024 kilograms.

Calculate the mass of the planet Saturn, giving your answer in standard form, correct to 2 significant
figures.

Answer

kg [3]

11 A large conference table is made from four rectangular sections and four corner sections.
Each rectangular section is 4 m long and 1.2 m wide.
Each corner section is a quarter circle, radius 1.2 m.

NOT TO
SCALE

Each person sitting at the conference table requires one metre of its outside perimeter.
Calculate the greatest number of people who can sit around the outside of the table.
Show all your working.

Answer
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[3]

2
1

A Spanish family went to Scotland for a holiday.

(a) The family bought 800 pounds () at a rate of 1 = 1.52 euros ().
How much did this cost in euros?

[1]

(b) The family returned home with 118 and changed this back into euros.
They received 173.46.
Calculate how many euros they received for each pound.

[1]

(c) A toy which costs 11.50 in Spain costs only 9.75 in Scotland.
Calculate, as a percentage of the cost in Spain, how much less it costs in Scotland.

[2]

(d) The total cost of the holiday was 4347.00.

In the family there were 2 adults and 3 children.
The cost for one adult was double the cost for one child.
Calculate the cost for one child.

[2]

(e) The original cost of the holiday was reduced by 10% to 4347.00.
Calculate the original cost.

[2]

(f) The plane took 3 hours 15 minutes to return to Spain.

The length of this journey was 2350 km.
Calculate the average speed of the plane in
(i) kilometres per hour,

[2]

(ii) metres per second.

[1]

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1

Two quantities c and d are connected by the formula c = 2d + 30.

Find c when d = 100.

Answer

[1]

Answer(a) x=

[1]

2 5 x
+ = .
3 6 2

(a)
Find the value of x.

(b)

3
y

40
9

Find the value of y.

Answer(b) y=

[1]

Answer(a)

[1]

Answer(b)

[1]

Use your calculator to work out

(a) (7 + 6 2430.2),

(b) 2 tan30 tan60.

Angharad sleeps for 8 hours each night, correct to the nearest 10 minutes.
The total time she sleeps in the month of November (30 nights) is T hours.
Between what limits does T lie?

Answer

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T<

[2]

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5
The picture shows the Sky Tower in Auckland.
Alongside the tower is a boat. The boat is 33 metres long.
Use the length of the boat to estimate the height of the Sky Tower.

33 m
Answer

m [2]

6
0.0008

8 105

0.8%

1
125 000

Write the numbers above in order, smallest first.

<

Answer
7

<

<

[2]

Find the value of n in each of the following statements.

(a) 32n =1
Answer(a) n =

[1]

Answer(b) n =

[1]

Answer(c) n =

[1]

(b) 32n = 2

(c) 32n = 8

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8

The Canadian Maple Leaf train timetable from Toronto to Buffalo is shown below.
Toronto

10 30

Oakville

10 52

Aldershot

11 07

Grimsby

11 41

St Catharines 11 59
Niagra Falls

12 24

Buffalo

13 25

(a) How long does the journey take from Toronto to Buffalo?

Answer(a)

min [1]

(b) This journey is 154 kilometres. Calculate the average speed of the train.

Answer(b)

km/h [2]

For each of the following sequences, write down the next term.
(a) 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,

Answer(a)

[1]

Answer(b)

[1]

Answer(c)

[1]

(b) x6, 6x5, 30x4, 120x3,

(c) 2, 6, 18, 54, 162, ...

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1

Maria, Carolina and Pedro receive $800 from their grandmother in the ratio
Maria: Carolina: Pedro = 7:5:4.
(a) Calculate how much money each receives.
(b) Maria spends

2
7

[3]

of her money and then invests the rest for two years

at 5% per year simple interest.

How much money does Maria have at the end of the two years?

[3]

(c) Carolina spends all of her money on a hi-fi set and two years later sells it at a loss of 20%.
How much money does Carolina have at the end of the two years?

[2]

(d) Pedro spends some of his money and at the end of the two years he has $100.
Write down and simplify the ratio of the amounts of money Maria, Carolina and Pedro have at
the end of the two years.

[2]

(e) Pedro invests his $100 for two years at a rate of 5% per year compound interest.
Calculate how much money he has at the end of these two years.

[2]

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1

(5.4(5.4 _ 4.8)(5.4 _ 3.4)(5.4 _ 2.6)) .

Use a calculator to find the value of

(a) Write down all the figures in your calculator display.

Answer(a)

[1]

(b) Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

Answer(b)

[1]

Use the formula

2
P= V
R

to calculate the value of P when V = 6 106 and R = 7.2 108.

Answer P =

[2]

Answer(a)

[1]

Answer(b)

[1]

For the diagram, write down

(a) the order of rotational symmetry,

(b) the number of lines of symmetry.

When 0 < x < 0.9, write the following in order of size with the smallest first.
cos x

x2

Answer

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x 1

<

<

[2]

3
5

4c _ 3c = 10 . Find c.
5
7
35

Answer c =

[2]

6
p=

0.0027513400 .
9.8923
+ 24.7777 )2
(

(a) In the spaces provided, write each number in this calculation correct to 1 significant figure.

Answer(a)
(

)2

[1]
(b) Use your answer to part (a) to estimate the value of p.

Answer(b)

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[1]

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8

(a) In October the cost of a car in euros was 20 000.

The cost of this car in pounds was 14 020.
Calculate the exact value of the exchange rate in October.

Answer(a) 1 =

[1]

(b) In November the car still cost 20 000 and the exchange rate was 1 = 0.6915.
Calculate the difference, in pounds, between the cost in October and November.

Answer(b)

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[2]

Each year a school organises a concert.

(a) (i) In 2004 the cost of organising the concert was $ 385.
In 2005 the cost was 10% less than in 2004.
Calculate the cost in 2005.

[2]

(ii) The cost of $ 385 in 2004 was 10% more than the cost in 2003.
Calculate the cost in 2003.

[2]

(b) (i) In 2006 the number of tickets sold was 210.

The ratio
Number of adult tickets : Number of student tickets was 23 : 19.
How many adult tickets were sold?

[2]

(ii) Adult tickets were $ 2.50 each and student tickets were $ 1.50 each.
Calculate the total amount received from selling the tickets.

[2]

(iii) In 2006 the cost of organising the concert was $ 410.

Calculate the percentage profit in 2006.

[2]

(c) In 2007, the number of tickets sold was again 210.

Adult tickets were $ 2.60 each and student tickets were $ 1.40 each.
The total amount received from selling the 210 tickets was $ 480.
How many student tickets were sold?

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DO NOT DO ANY WORKING ON THIS QUESTION PAPER
USE THE ANSWER BOOK OR PAPER PROVIDED

Beatrice has an income of $40 000 in one year.

(a) She pays:

no tax on the first $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.

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1

For the diagram above write down

(a) the order of rotational symmetry,

Answer(a)

[1]

Answer(b)

[1]

(b) the number of lines of symmetry.

Write down the next two prime numbers after 43.

Answer

(cos30o ) 2 _ (sin30o ) 2

Use your calculator to find the value of

Simplify

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2(sin120o )(cos120o )

and

[2]

Answer

[2]

Answer

[2]

5 2 1 _2
x x .
8
2

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24 cm
18 cm

NOT TO
SCALE

18 cm

24 cm

24 cm

18 cm

18 cm
24 cm

24 cm
18 cm

18 cm
24 cm

Each of the lengths 24 cm and 18 cm is measured correct to the nearest centimetre.

Calculate the upper bound for the perimeter of the shape.

Answer

cm [3]

In 1970 the population of China was 8.2 x 108.

In 2007 the population of China was 1.322 x 109.
Calculate the population in 2007 as a percentage of the population in 1970.

Answer

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% [2]

14 Zainab borrows $198 from a bank to pay for a new bed.

The bank charges compound interest at 1.9 % per month.
Calculate how much interest she owes at the end of 3 months.
Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.

Answer $

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1

Chris goes to a shop to buy meat, vegetables and fruit.

(a) (i) The costs of the meat, vegetables and fruit are in the ratio
meat : vegetables : fruit = 2 : 2 : 3.
The cost of the meat is $2.40.
Calculate the total cost of the meat, vegetables and fruit.

Answer(a)(i) $

[2]

(ii) Chris pays with a $20 note.

What percentage of the $20 has he spent?

Answer(a)(ii)

% [2]

(b) The masses of the meat, vegetables and fruit are in the ratio
meat : vegetables : fruit = 1 : 8 : 3.
The total mass is 9 kg.
Calculate the mass of the vegetables.

Answer(b)

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kg [2]

3
(c) Calculate the cost per kilogram of the fruit.

Answer(c) $

[3]

(d) The cost of the meat, $2.40, is an increase of 25% on the cost the previous week.
Calculate the cost of the meat the previous week.

Answer(d) $

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[2]

Show that

7
27

+1

7
9

= 2

1
27

Write down all the steps in your working.

Answer

[2]

When a car wheel turns once, the car travels 120 cm, correct to the nearest centimetre.
Calculate the lower and upper bounds for the distance travelled by the car when the wheel turns 20
times.

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cm

upper bound

cm

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[2]

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15 The air fare from Singapore to Stockholm can be paid for in Singapore dollars (S$) or Malaysian
Ringitts (RM).
One day the fare was S$740 or RM1900 and the exchange rate was S$1= RM2.448 .
How much less would it cost to pay in Singapore dollars?
Give your answer in Singapore dollars correct to the nearest Singapore dollar.

Answer S$

[3]

Answer(a)

[2]

Answer(b)

[2]

16 Simplify
1

16 2
(a) x 16 ,
81

(b)

16 y 10 4 y 4
32 y 7

17
Boys

Girls

Asia

62

28

Europe

35

45

Africa

Total

17

Total

255

For a small international school, the holiday destinations of the 255 students are shown in the table.
(a) Complete the table.

[3]

(b) What is the probability that a student chosen at random is a girl going on holiday to Europe?
Answer(b)

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[1]

2
1

Write down the number which is 3.6 less than 4.7 .

Answer

[1]

A plane took 1 hour and 10 minutes to fly from Riyadh to Jeddah.

The plane arrived in Jeddah at 23 05.
At what time did the plane depart from Riyadh?

Answer

[1]

Answer

[2]

Calculate 3 2.352 1.092 .

Give your answer correct to 4 decimal places.

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3
5

.
12
4
3
Write down all the steps in your working.
Show that 3

+ 1

= 5

Answer

[2]

Write the following in order of size, smallest first.

20

80

41

161

Answer

0.492

4.93%

In France, the cost of one kilogram of apricots is 3.38 .

In the UK, the cost of one kilogram of apricots is 4.39 .
1 = 1.04 .
Calculate the difference between these prices.
Give your answer in pounds ().

Answer

[2]

[2]

A large rectangular card measures 80 centimetres by 90 centimetres.

Maria uses all this card to make small rectangular cards measuring 40 millimetres by
15 millimetres.
Calculate the number of small cards.

Answer

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[2]

2
1

(a) Hansi and Megan go on holiday.

The costs of their holidays are in the ratio Hansi : Megan = 7 : 4.
Hansis holiday costs $756.
Find the cost of Megans holiday.

Answer(a) $

[2]

(b) In 2008, Hansi earned $7800.

(i) He earned 15% more in 2009.
Calculate how much he earned in 2009.

Answer(b)(i) $

[2]

(ii) In 2010, he earns 10% more than in 2009.

Calculate the percentage increase in his earnings from 2008 to 2010.

Answer(b)(ii)

[3]

(c) Megan earned $9720 in 2009. This was 20% more than she earned in 2008.
How much did she earn in 2008?

Answer(c) $

[3]

(d) Hansi invested $500 at a rate of 4% per year compound interest.

Calculate the final amount he had after three years.

Answer(d) $

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(b) A plane flies from London to Dubai and then to Colombo.
It leaves London at 01 50 and the total journey takes 13 hours and 45 minutes.
The local time in Colombo is 7 hours ahead of London.
Find the arrival time in Colombo.

Answer(b)

[2]

(c) Another plane flies the 8710 km directly from London to Colombo at an average speed of
800 km/h.
How much longer did the plane in part (b) take to travel from London to Colombo?
Give your answer in hours and minutes, correct to the nearest minute.

Answer(c)

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min

[4]

2
1

Thomas, Ursula and Vanessa share $200 in the ratio

Thomas : Ursula : Vanessa = 3 : 2 : 5.
(a) Show that Thomas receives $60 and Ursula receives $40.
Answer(a)

[2]

(b) Thomas buys a book for $21.

What percentage of his $60 does Thomas have left?

Answer(b)

% [2]

(c) Ursula buys a computer game for $36.80 in a sale.

The sale price is 20% less than the original price.
Calculate the original price of the computer game.

Answer(c) $

[3]

(d) Vanessa buys some books and some pencils.

Each book costs $12 more than each pencil.
The total cost of 5 books and 2 pencils is $64.20.
Find the cost of one pencil.

Answer(d) $

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[3]

2
1

Work out

7 5 (6 1).

topicThefourrules

Answer .............................................................

Make h the subject of the formula

[1]

g = h + i.

topicAlgebraicrepresentation

Answer h = .....................................................

Find the value of

topicIndices

3
2

9
4

giving your answer as an exact fraction.

Answer .............................................................

[2]

Showing all your working, calculate

1 14

2
3

[2]

1 13 .

topicThefourrules

Answer .............................................................

topicEquationsandInequalities
topicAngleproperties

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(c)
NOT TO
SCALE
x+1

x
x+2

The area of the triangle is equal to the area of the square.

All lengths are in centimetres.
(i) Show that x2 3x 2 = 0.
Answer(c)(i)

[3]
(ii) Solve the equation x2 3x 2 = 0, giving your answers correct to 2 decimal places.
Show all your working.

Answer(c)(ii) x =

or x =

[4]

(iii) Calculate the area of one of the shapes.

Answer(c)(iii)

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cm2

[1]

14

(a) y is 5 less than the square of the sum of p and q.

Write down a formula for y in terms of p and q.

Answer(a) y =

[2]

(b) The cost of a magazine is $x and the cost of a newspaper is $(x 3).
The total cost of 6 magazines and 9 newspapers is $51.
Write down and solve an equation in x to find the cost of a magazine.

Answer(b) $

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[4]

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(c) Bus tickets cost $3 for an adult and $2 for a child.

There are a adults and c children on a bus.
The total number of people on the bus is 52.
The total cost of the 52 tickets is $139.
Find the number of adults and the number of children on the bus.

Answer(c) Number of adults =

Number of children =

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(a) The cost of a bottle of water is $w.

The cost of a bottle of juice is $j.
The total cost of 8 bottles of water and 2 bottles of juice is $12.
The total cost of 12 bottles of water and 18 bottles of juice is $45.
Find the cost of a bottle of water and the cost of a bottle of juice.

Answer(a) Cost of a bottle of water = $

Cost of a bottle of juice = $

[5]

(b) Roshni cycles 2 kilometres at y km/h and then runs 4 kilometres at (y 4) km/h.
The whole journey takes 40 minutes.
(i) Write an equation in y and show that it simplifies to

y2 13y + 12 = 0.

Answer(b)(i)

[4]

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(ii) Factorise y2 13y + 12.

Answer(b)(ii)

[2]

(iii) Solve the equation y2 13y + 12 = 0.

Answer(b)(iii) y =

or y =

[1]

(iv) Work out Roshnis running speed.

Answer(b)(iv)

km/h

[1]

(c) Solve the equation

u2 u 4 = 0.
Show all your working and give your answers correct to 2 decimal places.

Answer(c) u =

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or u =

[4]

18
13 (a) Find the value of x when

27
.

=
24

x
Answer(a) x =

.
3
6
7
Write down all the steps in your working.

(b) Show that

[1]

Answer(b)

[2]

14 (a) A drinking glass contains 55 cl of water.

Write 55 cl in litres.
Answer(a)

litres [1]

Answer(b)

g [2]

Answer(a)

[1]

Answer(b)

[1]

Answer(c)

[1]

(b) The mass of grain in a sack is 35 kg.

The grain is divided equally into 140 bags.
Calculate the mass of grain in each bag.
Give your answer in grams.

15 (a) Write 67.499 correct to the nearest integer.

(b) Write 0.003040506 correct to 3 significant figures.

(c) d = 56.4, correct to 1 decimal place.

Write down the lower bound of d.

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10 The cost of a cup of tea is t cents.
The cost of a cup of coffee is (t + 5) cents.
The total cost of 7 cups of tea and 11 cups of coffee is 2215 cents.
Find the cost of one cup of tea.

Answer

cents [3]

11 The volume of a solid varies directly as the cube of its length.

When the length is 3 cm, the volume is 108 cm3.
Find the volume when the length is 5 cm.

Answer

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cm3 [3]

2
16 Write

3
as a single fraction.

+
x2

x+2

Give your answer in its simplest form.

[3]

Answer

17

NOT TO
SCALE

20 cm
10 cm

9 cm

d cm

The diagrams show two mathematically similar containers.

The larger container has a base with diameter 9 cm and a height 20 cm.
The smaller container has a base with diameter d cm and a height 10 cm.
(a) Find the value of d.

Answer(a) d =

[1]

Answer(b)

ml [2]

(b) The larger container has a capacity of 1600 ml.

Calculate the capacity of the smaller container.

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6
3

x = 3m k

(a)
Find the value of
(i) x when m = 2 and k = 4,

Answer(a)(i)

[2]

Answer(a)(ii)

[3]

Answer(b)

[2]

Answer(c)

[2]

Answer(d) m =

[2]

Answer(e) p =

[3]

(ii) m when x = 19 and k = 5.

(b) Expand the brackets.

g(7f g2)

(c) Factorise completely.

18h2 12hj

(d) Make m the subject of the formula.

t = 8m + 15

(e) Solve the equation.

p + 3 = 3(p 5)

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7

(a) Solve the equations.

(i) 2x + 3 = 15 O x

Answer(a)(i) x =

[2]

Answer(a)(ii) y =

[2]

Answer(a)(iii) u =

[3]

2y 1
=7

(ii)

(iii) 2 =

1
u 1

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13
(b) Write down equations to show the following.
(i) p is equal to r plus two times q.

Answer(b)(i)

[1]

Answer(b)(ii)

[2]

(ii) k is equal to the square of the sum of l and m.

(c) Pierre walks for 2 hours at w km/h and then for another 3 hours at (w 1) km/h.
The total distance of Pierres journey is 11.5 km.
Find the value of w.

Answer(c) w =

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[4]

8
5

(a) Solve 9 I 3n + 6 Y 21 for integer values of n.

Answer(a)

[3]

Answer(b)(i)

[2]

Answer(b)(ii)

[3]

(b) Factorise completely.

(i) 2x2 + 10xy

(ii) 3a2 O 12b2

(c)
NOT TO
SCALE

x cm

(x + 17) cm

The area of this triangle is 84 cm2.

(i) Show that x2 + 17x O 168 = 0.
Answer (c)(i)

[2]
(ii) Factorise x2 + 17x O 168.

[2]

Answer(c)(ii)
(iii) Solve x2 + 17x O 168 = 0.

Answer(c)(iii) x =

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or x =

[1]

9
(d) Solve

15 x
= 3 2 x.
2

[3]

Answer(d) x =

(e) Solve 2x2 O 5x O 6 = 0.

Show all your working and give your answers correct to 2 decimal places.

Answer(e) x =

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4
3
NOT TO
SCALE
x cm

2x cm
(x + 5) cm

The diagram shows a square of side (x + 5) cm and a rectangle which measures 2x cm by x cm.
The area of the square is 1 cm2 more than the area of the rectangle.

(a) Show that x2 10x 24 = 0 .

Answer(a)

[3]

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(b) Find the value of x.

Answer(b) x =

[3]

(c) Calculate the acute angle between the diagonals of the rectangle.

Answer(c)

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(c) Erik runs a race at an average speed of x m
s.
His time is (3x 0 9) seconds and the race distance is (2x2 0 8) metres.
(i)

Write down an equation in x and show that it simplifies to

x2 0 9x ! 8 # 0.

[2]

(ii) Solve x2 0 9x ! 8 # 0.

[2]

(iii) Write down Eriks time and the race distance.

[2]

17 Solve the equation

x 2 + 4 x 22 = 0 .

Give your answers correct to 2 decimal places.

Show all your working.

Answer x =

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(a) (i) The cost of a book is $x.

Write down an expression in terms of x for the number of these books which are bought for
$40.

[1]

(ii) The cost of each book is increased by $2.

The number of books which are bought for $40 is now one less than before.
Write down an equation in x and show that it simplifies to x 2 + 2 x 80 = 0 .

[4]

(iii) Solve the equation x 2 + 2 x 80 = 0 .

[2]

(iv) Find the original cost of one book.

[1]

(b) Magazines cost $m each and newspapers cost $n each.

One magazine costs $2.55 more than one newspaper.
The cost of two magazines is the same as the cost of five newspapers.
(i) Write down two equations in m and n to show this information.

[2]

(ii) Find the values of m and n.

[3]

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Two quantities c and d are connected by the formula c = 2d + 30.

Find c when d = 100.

Answer

[1]

Answer(a) x=

[1]

2 5 x
+ = .
3 6 2

(a)
Find the value of x.

(b)

3
y

40
9

Find the value of y.

Answer(b) y=

[1]

Answer(a)

[1]

Answer(b)

[1]

Use your calculator to work out

(a) (7 + 6 2430.2),

(b) 2 tan30 tan60.

Angharad sleeps for 8 hours each night, correct to the nearest 10 minutes.
The total time she sleeps in the month of November (30 nights) is T hours.
Between what limits does T lie?

Answer

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T<

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A

13x cm

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5x cm
y

17x cm

12x cm

ABCD is a trapezium.
(a) Find the area of the trapezium in terms of x and simplify your answer.

cm2 [2]

Answer(a)
(b) Angle BCD = y. Calculate the value of y.

Answer(b) y =

[2]

Answer(a) x =

[2]

17 Solve the equations

(a) 0.2x 3 = 0.5x,

(b) 2x2 11x + 12 = 0.

Answer(b) x =

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20
(x + 4) cm

4x cm

NOT TO
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(x + 2) cm

(x + 12) cm

(a) (i) Write down an expression for the area of rectangle R.

Answer(a) (i)

cm2 [1]

(ii) Show that the total area of rectangles R and Q is 5x2 + 30x + 24 square centimetres.

[1]
(b) The total area of rectangles R and Q is 64 cm2.
Calculate the value of x correct to 1 decimal place.

Answer(b) x =

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2

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x cm

y
A

(x + 4) cm

(a) When the area of triangle ABC is 48 cm2,

(i) show that x2 + 4x 96 = 0,

[2]

(ii) solve the equation x2 + 4x 96 = 0,

[2]

(iii) write down the length of AB.

[1]

(b) When

tan y = 1 , find the value of x.

[2]

(c) When the length of AC is 9 cm,

(i) show that

2x2 + 8x 65 = 0,

(ii) solve the equation

[2]

2x2 + 8x 65 = 0,

(Show your working and give your answers correct to 2 decimal places.)
(iii) calculate the perimeter of triangle ABC.

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(x + 3) cm
x cm

(2x + 5) cm

(x + 4) cm

The diagram shows two rectangles ABCD and PQRS.

AB = (2x + 5) cm, AD = (x + 3) cm, PQ = (x + 4) cm and PS = x cm.
(a) For one value of x, the area of rectangle ABCD is 59 cm2 more than the area of rectangle PQRS.
(i) Show that x2 + 7x 44 = 0.
Answer(a)(i)

[3]

(ii) Factorise x2 + 7x 44.

Answer(a)(ii)
(iii) Solve the equation

[2]

x2 + 7x 44 = 0.

Answer(a)(iii) x =

or x =

[1]

(iv) Calculate the size of angle DBA.

Answer(a)(iv) Angle DBA =

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(b) For a different value of x, the rectangles ABCD and PQRS are similar.
(i) Show that this value of x satisfies the equation x2 2x 12 = 0.
Answer(b)(i)

[3]
(ii) Solve the equation x2 2x 12 = 0, giving your answers correct to 2 decimal places.

Answer(b)(ii) x =

or x =

[4]

(iii) Calculate the perimeter of the rectangle PQRS.

Answer(b)(iii)

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(a) Solve the equation

(b) (i) y =

m _3
4

m +4
3

_
= 7.

Answer(a) m =

[4]

Answer(b)(i)

[1]

3 _ 2
x _1 x +3

Find the value of y when x = 5.

(ii) Write

3 _ 2
as a single fraction.
x _1 x +3

Answer(b)(ii)

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(iii) Solve the equation

p=

(c)

t
q_

3 _ 2
1
= .
_
x 1 x +3 x

Answer(b)(iii) x =

[3]

Answer(c) q =

[3]

Find q in terms of p and t.

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12 The side of a square is 6.3 cm, correct to the nearest millimetre.
The lower bound of the perimeter of the square is u cm and the upper bound of the perimeter is v cm.
Calculate the value of
(a) u,

Answer(a) u =

[1]

Answer(b) v u =

[1]

Answer c =

[2]

(b) v u.

13 a 107 + b 106 = c 106

Find c in terms of a and b.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

14 Priyantha completes a 10 km run in 55 minutes 20 seconds.

Calculate Priyanthas average speed in km/h.

Answer

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km/h

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24 (a) Write

1
y

2
x

as a single fraction in its lowest terms.

Answer(a)

[2]

Answer(b)

[3]

Answer(a)

[2]

Answer(b) gf (x) =

[1]

Answer(c) f1 (x) =

[2]

(b) Write

x +x
3x + 3

25 f : x 2x 7

in its lowest terms.

g: x

1
x

Find

1
(a) fg ,
2

(b) gf (x),

(c) f 1 (x).

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Wall
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x

Enclosure

A farmer makes a rectangular enclosure for his animals.

He uses a wall for one side and a total of 72 metres of fencing for the other three sides.
The enclosure has width x metres and area A square metres.
(a) Show that A = 72x 2x2.
Answer (a)

[2]
(b) Factorise completely 72x 2x2.

Answer(b)

[2]

(c) Complete the table for A = 72x 2x2.

10

310

520

15

20

25

30

550

360

35

[3]
(d) Draw the graph of A = 72x 2x2 for 0 Y x Y 35 on the grid opposite.

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5 (a)
A
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17 cm
x cm

(x + 7) cm

In the right-angled triangle ABC, AB = x cm, BC = (x + 7) cm and AC = 17 cm.

(i) Show that x2 + 7x 120 = 0.
Answer(a)(i)

[3]
(ii) Factorise x2 + 7x 120.

Answer(a)(ii)

[2]

(iii) Write down the solutions of x2 + 7x 120 = 0.

Answer(a)(iii) x =

or x =

[1]

(iv) Write down the length of BC.

Answer(a)(iv) BC =

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(b)
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3x cm

(2x + 3) cm

(2x 1) cm

(2x + 3) cm

The rectangle and the square shown in the diagram above have the same area.
(i) Show that 2x2 15x 9 = 0.
Answer(b)(i)

[3]
(ii) Solve the equation 2x2 15x 9 = 0.
Show all your working and give your answers correct to 2 decimal places.

Answer(b)(ii) x =

or x =

[4]

(iii) Calculate the perimeter of the square.

Answer(b)(iii)

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(d) Solve the equation.
2x 2 + 5x + 1 = 0

Show all your working and give your answers correct to 2 decimal places.

Answer(d) x =

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(a) Factorise

t 2 4.

topicAlgebraicmanipulation

Answer (a) ......................................................

(b) Factorise completely

[1]

at2 4a + 2t2 8.

Answer (b) ......................................................

[2]

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A set of Russian dolls is made so that the volume, V, of each of them varies directly as the cube of its
height, h.
The doll with a height of 3 cm has a volume of 6.75 cm3.
(a) Find an equation for V in terms of h.

Answer (a) V = ..............................................

[2]

(b) Find the volume of a doll with a height of 2.5 cm.

Answer (b) ...............................................cm3

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