Mat_GCSE_t2B

Test 2 Section B: 30 marks, 45 minutes – calculator available

Q1. A girl puts £40 into a bank account paying 4% interest per year. How much is it worth at the end of:

a) the first year?

b) the third year.

(2 marks)

A1. a) £41.60

When compound interest is involved it is best to use the multiplying factor (MF) for whatever percentage
interest is to be added for each time period. For 4% per year the MF is 1.04. So after 1 year it is worth £40
x 1.04 = £41.60. Note that when this is money it must be written as £41.60 even though your calculator
will show 41.6.

A1. b) £44.99

After three years, the MF will have been applied 3 times, so it will be worth

£40 x 1.04 x 1.04 x 1.04 = £44.99

(normally entered into calculator as 40 x 1.043 giving 44.99456 which needs to be rounded to the nearest
penny).

Q2. For a fixed distance, the time taken is inversely proportional to the average speed.
For a particular journey, what percentage will the time change if the average speed is decreased by 20%?

The time taken for the journey will (Dropdown 1) by (Dropdown 2).

(2 marks)

A2. a) Dropdown 1: Increase

A2. b) Dropdown 2: 25%

When time, t, is inversely proportional to speed, v, it means that when one increases the other decreases,
and vice versa. So speed decreases means that the time taken must increase. The two multiplying
1
factors must be the reciprocals of one another for inversely proportional so the MF for the time is 0.8
=1.25, so the time increases by 25% (the MF for the speed is 0.8).
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Q3. A straight line, L, has equation 𝟐𝒚 = 𝟐𝒙 + 𝟕.

a) Find the gradient of L.

b) Find the y coordinate of the point where L cuts the y-axis.
c) Find the equation of the straight line which passes through (1, 3) and is perpendicular to L.
𝒚=

(3 marks)

A3. a) 1
𝟕
A3. b) 3.5 (or )
𝟐

a) and b) rearrange the equation to be in the form y = to be able to read off both the gradient and the y
intercept:

y  x  3.5 so the gradient of L is 1, and the y coordinate of the point where L cuts the y-axis is 3.5.

A3. c) −𝒙 + 𝟒

The line perpendicular to L will have gradient -1 (the product of the gradients of perpendicular lines is -1,
– except in the case of horizontal and vertical lines), so the equation is in the form
y   x  c , and c
can be found by substituting the coordinates of the point on the line (1. 3) into this equation
3  1  c  c  4 so the equation is
y  x  4 .
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Q4. A square has sides of length x centimetres. It has area A square centimetres. x > A
Give a possible value for x to one decimal place.

(1 mark)

A4. (Any value satisfying) 0 < x < 1 (0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9)

You know that A = x2. So x > x2 but also know that x is positive.

When you square x (multiply x by itself) the result is smaller numerically as it is known to be positive, so
x must be less than 1.

Any value like 0.5, 0.2, ¾ etc will do as long as it satisfies 0 < x < 1.

Note that 02 =0 and 12=1 so 0 and 1 do not satisfy the strict inequality.

Q5. Calculate the angles marked as x and y in the diagram below.

x = _________ º y = _________ º

(2 marks)

A5. a) 40º

Angles on a straight line add to 180º so x = 180 – 140 = 40.

A5. b) 130º

In a pentagon (5 sides) the interior angles add to 3 x 180 = 540.

Angles given total 80 + 120 + 140 + 70 = 410

y = 540 – 410 = 130

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Q6. A day of the week is chosen at random.

Find the probability that:

a) it starts with F or T
b) it ends with s.

(3 marks)

𝟑
A6. a)
𝟕

𝟑
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday start with F or T – so probability =
𝟕

A6. b) 0

All the days in the week end with y, so there are none – so probability = 0.

Q7. Amir weighs 75kg. Alisha weighs 62kg. Both weights are to the nearest kilogram.
What is their smallest possible total weight?

_________ kg

(1 mark)

A7. 136 kg

The smallest weight for each is 74.5 and 61.5 kg, so the smallest possible total weight would be 74.5 +
61.5 = 136 kg.

The convention is that we round up from ‘halfway’.

Q8. There are 740 pupils in a school. 85% of the pupils were present every day in a particular week.
How many pupils were present every day that week?

(1 mark)

A8. 629

740 x 0.85 = 629.

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Q9. Uranium has a density of 19.05 g/cm3.

What volume (in cm3) of uranium would have a mass of 12 tonnes. Give your answer to 2 significant
figures in standard form.

____ ×𝟏𝟎 _____

(2 marks)

A9. a. 𝟔. 𝟑 × 𝟏𝟎𝟓

You have different units here – grams and tonnes so you need to convert into one of them. Larger
numbers are normally easier to work with so convert tonnes into grams – there are 1000 grams in 1 kg
and 1000 kg in 1 tonne.

So 12 tonnes = 12 x 1000 x 1000 grams = 12 000 000 grams. To find the volume you divide the mass by
the density so 12 000 000 19.05  629921.259... which is 6.3 x 105 cm3 in standard form.

Q10. Water drains from a tank at a rate of 2.5 litres per second. It takes 9 minutes for the tank to empty.
How much water was in the tank?

_______ Litres

(1 mark)

A10. 1350 Litres

If 2.5 litres drains in 1 second, then 150 (=2.5 x 60) litres drains in 1 minute and 1350 (=9 x 150) litres
drains in 9 minutes.

Note – calculating that there are 9 x 60 = 540 seconds in 9 minutes allows you to calculate it a slightly
different way).
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Q11. y is inversely proportional to x. y = 10 when x = 3.

a) Find y when x = 6.
b) Find x when y = 15.

y=
x=

(2 marks)

A11. a) y = 5
A11. b) x = 2
k
y
y is inversely proportional to x x then substitute the known pair of values to find k

k 30
10   k  30  y 
3 x and then you can substitute any value of x or of y to find the other value.

30
y 5
a) when x = 6, 6

30
15  x2
b) when y = 15, x

Q12. Which of the expressions below are equivalent to 𝟕𝒂 + 𝟑𝒃 − 𝟐(𝒂 − 𝟐𝒃)

(1 mark)

A12. 𝟓𝒂 + 𝟕𝒃

𝟕𝒂 + 𝟑𝒃 − 𝟐(𝒂 − 𝟐𝒃) = 𝟕𝒂 + 𝟑𝒃 − 𝟐𝒂 + 𝟒𝒃 = 𝟓𝒂 + 𝟕𝒃

Q13. Find the value of F when 𝑭 = 𝒔 + 𝟑(𝒓 + 𝒕) and 𝒔 = 𝟐, 𝒓 = 𝟑, 𝒕 = 𝟕

(1 mark)

A13. 32

F  2  3  3  7   2  3 10
Substituting the given values: so F = 32.
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Q14. A large number of vehicles were observed passing a particular junction. The relative frequencies
are shown in the table below.

Vehicle type Private car Taxi Bus Van or lorry Motor cycle
Relative
0.46 0.24 0.1 x 0.05
frequency

a) Find the relative frequency for the ‘Van or lorry’ category (x in the table)
b) If 25 buses were observed, how many private cars were observed?

(2 marks)

A14. a) 0.15

The total relative frequency is always 1, and the four given values total 0.85

so x = 1 – 0.85 = 0.15

A14. b) 115

The relative frequency for buses was 0.1 and there were 25 buses seen so altogether there were 250
vehicles seen. Then there were 0.46 x 250 = 115 private cars seen.

Q15. A shape consists of a rectangle with sides of length 4r and 5r – 2, with a semicircle on one of the
sides, as shown in the diagram below.

From the expressions below choose the expression which gives the perimeter of the shape.

(1 mark)

A15. 𝟏𝟒𝒙 − 𝟒 + 𝟒𝝅𝒙

The perimeter has 4 sections – two sides length 5x – 2, one side length 4x and the semicircle with radius
2x.

1
5x  2  5x  2  4 x   2  2 x  14 x  4  2 x
So perimeter = 2
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Q16. A shape consists of a rectangle with sides of length 4x and 5x – 2, with a semicircle on one of the
sides, as shown in the diagram below.
[Same graphic as Q15]

From the expressions below choose the expression which gives the area of the shape.

(1 mark)

A16. 𝟐𝟎𝒙 − 𝟖𝒙𝟐 + 𝟐𝝅𝒙𝟐

The area is a rectangle sides length 5x – 2 and 4x and the semicircle with radius 2x so the

1
5x  2  4 x      2 x   20 x 2  8 x  2 x 2
2

Area = 2

Q17. Andi and Katerina share money in the ratio 5 : 3. Andi gets £140 more than Katerina.

a) How much money did they share? £

b) How much money did Andi get? £

(2 marks)

A17. a) 560

A17. b) 350

Andi gets two more parts than Katerina and gets £140 more, so each part in the ratio is worth £70.

a) There are 8 parts altogether so the total amount was £70 x 8 = £560.

b) Andi got 5 parts – so she got £70 x 5 = £350.

Note that it is sensible to just check – Katerina should get £70 x 3 = £210, which is £140 less than Andi –
so you know everything is correct.
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Q18. The histogram below shows the distribution of lengths (in cm) of the offcuts of planks in a timber
yard at the end of a week. There are 15 offcuts between 10 and 15 cm long.

a) How many offcuts are between 20 and 30 cm long?

b) How many offcuts are there altogether?

(2 marks)

A18. a) 30

A18. b) 85

In a histogram the area of a block is proportional to the frequency in the interval.

a) Since the 20 – 30 interval is twice as wide and the histogram is at the same height as for the 10 – 15
interval there must be twice as many in the interval – so 15 x 2 = 30 offcuts are between 20 and 30 cm
long.

b) To find the total you need to find the number represented by a simple area and count up how many of
those areas are in in each block to get all frequencies. In the 20 – 30 interval there are 6 full cells shaded
and 30 offcuts so each full cell represents 5 offcuts. So the frequencies are 10, 15, 20, 30, and 10 giving a
total of 85 offcuts.