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Use 1 John and Obama were the only candidates for the coming Presidential election in Use

USA. Obama received 68% of the votes cast and he had exactly 900 votes more
than John. Find the total number of votes cast.

Answer ________________________ votes [2]

2 A man bought a eggs at r cents per dozen. He sold them for s cents each. Find an
expression, in terms of a, r and s, for the profit, in cents, that he made.

Answer ______________________ [2]

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For 3 Two conical flasks A and B made of the same material are geometrically similar For

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diameter of the base of the smaller conical vessel A.

(b) Find the ratio of the base area of A : base area of B.

Answer (a) ________________________ cm [1]

(b) ____________ : ____________ [1]

4 Steve has just bought a new Creative Zen with a memory space of 512 megabytes.
He needs 250 kilobytes of memory space for each song he downloads.
(a) Express 512 megabytes in bytes, giving your answer in standard form.
(b) What is the maximum number of songs Steve can download if he uses up all
the memory space in his Creative Zen?

Answer (a) ______________________ bytes [1]

(b) _____________________ songs [1]

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For 5 b5  b2  b3
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 5 
(b) Simplify  
 2x 

Answer (a) __________________________ [1]

(b) __________________________ [1]

6 David deposited $5250 in a bank that pays 1.5% compound interest per annum.
Calculate the amount David has after 5 years.

Answer $ ____________________________ [2]

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7 Evaluate the following, giving your answers correct to 3 significant figures: For
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(a)  3  7 2  4 Examiner’s
     1   ,
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0.3234
(b) 3
32.54  9.329

Answer (a) __________________________ [1]

(b) __________________________ [1]

8 The temperature in Dubai at 0600 was -10 ºC. At 1500, the temperature was
17 ºC. Assuming that the temperature rose at a steady rate, calculate
(a) the difference between the two temperatures,
(b) the temperature at 1400.

Answer (a) ________________________ ºC [1]

(b) ________________________ ºC [2]

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9 A model is made of the National Stadium to a scale of 1 : 150. For

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(a) If the height of the stadium in the model is 25 cm, find the actual height of the Examiner’s
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(b) If the floor area of the soccer field in the stadium is 28125 m , find the floor
area of the corresponding soccer field in the model in cm2

Answer (a) ________________________ m [1]

(b) _______________________ cm2 [2]

10 (a) The nth term of a sequence is given by 3n2 – 1. Write down the first four
terms.
(b) The first four terms of another sequence are 4, 13, 28, 49, ...
(i) Write down the next term.
(ii) By comparing this sequence with your answer to (a), write down the nth
term of this sequence.

Answer (a) __________________________ [1]

(b)(i)_________________________ [1]

(ii) __________________________ [1]

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For 11 (a) Jane has three rolls of ribbons measuring 288 cm, 416 cm and 640 cm
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(i) the greatest possible length of each ribbon,
(ii) the total number of ribbons cut from the three rolls.
(b) Find the smallest number which must be multiplied by 120 to give a cube
number.

Answer (a)(i)_______________________cm [2]

(ii) __________________________ [1]

(b) __________________________ [1]

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13 cm

B C
5 cm 6 cm D

In the diagram above, ABC  90 , AC = 13 cm, BC = 5 cm and CD = 6 cm.

Calculate
(a) the length of AB,
(b) cos ACD ,
(c) area of ACD .

Answer (a) _______________________ cm [1]

(b) __________________________ [1]

(c) _______________________ cm2 [2]

13 (a) y is proportional to x n . Write down the value of n when
(i) y cm 2 is the area of a circle of radius x cm.
(ii) y hours is the time taken to travel a distance x km at a constant speed.
(b) The force, F, between two particles is inversely proportional to the square of
the distance between them. The force is 36 units when the distance between
the particles is r metres. Find the force when the distance is
3r metres.

Answer (a)(i)_________________________ [1]

(ii) __________________________ [1]

(b) __________________________ [2]

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14 (a) Draw a quadrilateral ABCD with AB as the base given that AB = 10 [2]
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cm, AD = 8 cm, ADC  100, BAD  75 and ABC  80.
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(b) Construct the angle bisector of BAD [1]
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(c) Construct the perpendicular bisector of DC [1]
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15 men, 8 ladies, 7 girls and 10 boys took part in a lucky draw. A winner was
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picked at random, after which another winner was picked from the remaining
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people.
Find the probability that
(a) the first winner is a female,
(b) a boy was chosen during both picks,
(c) among the two winners, at least one of them is an adult.

Answer (a) __________________________ [1]

(b) __________________________ [1]

(c) __________________________ [2]

16   3  2  k
AB    , BC    and CD   
 4    5 14 
(a) Express 3 AB  2 BC as a column vector,
(b) Given that CD is parallel to AB , find the value of k,

(c) Find BD , giving your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer (a) __________________________ [1]

(b) __________________________ [2]

(c) __________________________ [2]

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17 In the diagram, BC = 10 cm, AC = 14 cm, AD = 7 cm, BD = 2 cm and For
ABC  AED .
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(a) Explain why triangles ABC and AED are similar. Use
(b) Find the length of DE.
(c) Calculate the area of quadrilateral BDEC if the area of AED is 9 cm2.

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(a) ________________________________________________________ [2]

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(b) _______________________ cm [1]

(c) _______________________ cm2 [2]

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18 The graph represents the speed of a car, in metres per second, for its journey. Examiner’s
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Initially, it is travelling at a constant speed of 20 m/s for 2 seconds, then it slows Use
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down uniformly, coming to a rest after 4 seconds. It then started to move for the
second part of its journey lasting 10 seconds and the distance covered for the whole
journey is 150 m.

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Time (s)
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

(a) Find the speed of the car after 5 seconds.

(b) Find the value of v.
(c) Sketch the distance time graph for the whole journey. [2]

Distance (m)

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160
0
140
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120
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100
12
080

10
60
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40

20
80
Time (s)
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

Answer (a) _______________________m/s [1]

(b) _______________________m/s [2]

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19 The diagram shows a straight line y  mx  c cutting the y-axis at A (0, 4) and
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x-axis at B (2,0). A curve y  ( x  2)( x  k ) meets the x-axis at B and the y-axis
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at C (0, -2). Use
(a) Find the area of triangle ABC.
(b) Find the values of m, c and k.
(c) Write down the equation of the line of symmetry of the curve
y  ( x  2)( x  k ) .

Answer (a) _____________________ units2 [1]

(b) m = _______________________ [3]

c = _______________________

k = _______________________

(c) __________________________ [1]

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For 20 (a) Sketch the graph of y  (2 x  4)(8  2 x) . For

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y

(b) (i) Express x 2  6 x  2 in the form ( x  b)2  c

(ii) Sketch the graph of y  x 2  6 x  2

Answer (b)(i) x 2  6 x  2 = ___________________ [1]

(ii) y [2]

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21 The information below show the mass of 1000 packages of 1 kg rice packed by two For
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machines X and Y. Examiner’s
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Machine X
Mass (g) 980 - 990 990 – 1000 1000 – 1010 1010 – 1020
Frequency 125 240 540 95

Machine Y
Mean = 1003.2
Standard deviation = 9.8

(a) Find the mean and standard deviation of the mass of rice packed for Machine
X.
(b) Compare the performance of the two machines. If you are the owner of the
rice distribution business, which machine will you buy? Why?

Answer (a) Mean = ______________ g ;

Standard deviation = __________________ g [4]

Answer (b) __________________________________________________ [2]

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22 (a) Solve the simultaneous equations For

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Answer x = __________________________ [3]

y = __________________________

(b) Solve the inequalities

4x  4
 x  1  3x  3
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Show your solution on the number line in the answer space.

Answer (b) [3]

-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
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