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BOTANY DOWNS Secondary College

Year 9
End of Year
Examination 2006
Name:

Whanau Class:
Mathematics Teacher: please circle
Ms Buckley Mr Burkert Miss Davies Ms Gunput

Mr Hawkes Mr McKenna Mr Patchell

Percentage
Raw Mark:
/180 Mark: %
Student Instructions

Write all working and answers in space provided. Write your answers very clearly in pen. Graphs
may be done in pencil. If you need more paper ask your teacher and attach it to this examination
paper.

This examination is 2 hours long. It contains 9 sections in 12 pages. Please check before starting if
any sections or pages are missing.

The marks for each question are shown in brackets ie [3]

There is extra space for working on the last page of this booklet should you need it.

FORMULAE YOU MAY FIND HELPUL

Triangle: 1 Circle: Circumference = 2πr
Area = × b × h
2
Area = πr 2
Trapezium:  a+b
Area =  × h
 2 
Prism: Volume = base area × height
Parallelogram: Area = b × h
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Section One: NUMBER (20 marks)

1) Complete this table by filling in the missing values. Give all fractions in their simplest

Fraction Decimal Percentage

0.5

70%

2
3 [6]

2) Find 3) Calculate:
a) 25% of 65 a) 23 + 72

b) 3 of 455
5 3 5 1
b) 2 + −1
4 8 2
1
c) 2 % of 1200
6 [3]
[3] c) 225

4) Statistics show that 43.8% of New Zealanders over the age of 15 participate in sport.
What percentage of New Zealanders over 15 do not participate in sport?
[1]
______________%

5) a) Peter had 8 marbles and lost 3 of them in a game at lunch time. What fraction of the marbles
does he have left?
3
b) If Peter started with 24 marbles and lost of them, how many marbles would he have lost?
8 [2]

6) Karen and Luke bought a house for $170 000. They redecorated and sold it a year later for 20% more than they had paid.
What price did they sell their house for?
[1]
$____________________

7) Alan bought a car for $3000 that needed some repairs. He did the work himself and sold it for $3900.
What percentage had the price of the car increased by?

________________% [1]

8) Jan wants to buy a new All Terrain bike. The bike shop in town has this sale
advertisement in their window .
Jan has already saved $120 to go towards buying this bike.
How much more money will Jan have to save if she wants to buy this bike?

$__________________ [1]

9) Andrew works in a clothing store and earns 5% commission on all items sold.
If one week Andrew sells $1250 worth of clothing and $460 worth of accessories, how much commission will he earn?

$_________________ [2]
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Section Two: Rates and Ratios (20 marks)

Circle the correct answer for each of the following
1) A soccer team has 4 boys and 7 girls.
The ratio of boys to girls is:
A4:7 B 11 : 4 C 4 : 11 D7:4

2) A bag of jellybeans contains 11 red, 22 green and 44 yellow jellybeans.

The simplest ratio of red: green: yellow jellybeans is :
A 1 : 22 : 44 B1:4:2 C1:2:4 D. 2 : 1 : 4

3) 28 mm : 7 cm simplified is:
A 28 : 70 B4:1 C2:5 D 28 : 7

4) 4 : 11 = r : 132 The value of r is:

A 44 B 48 C 33 D 12

5) If a : b = 1.69 and a = 65, then b, correct to two decimal places, is: [5]
A 63.31 B 0.03 C 66.69 D 38.46

6) Simplify the following ratios:

a) 20:45 = ______ : ______ b) 16: 56 = ______ : ______ [2]

7) A class has 16 girls and 14 boys.
(a) Find the ratio of boys to girls in its simplest form.
_______ : _______
(b) Find the ratio of girls to the total number of students in the class.
[2]
_______ : _______

8) Joe has completed 3.5 kilometres of a 5.5 kilometre race.

[1]
Find the ratio of distance completed to distance still to go.
_______ : _______

9) The cake recipe requires flour and sugar to be mixed in the ratio of 9 : 4.
If 240 grams of sugar is used, how much flour is needed?
[1]

10) Mary is making her special salad dressing for a large function. It is made with a 3 : 7 ratio of vinegar to oil.
If she uses 35 cups of oil, how much vinegar should she use?
[1]

11) David receives a pay increase in the ratio 9 : 4.

If his weekly income was $550, what will be his new weekly wage?
$___________________ per week [1]

12) A box of chocolates contains hard-centred and soft-centred chocolates in the ratio 4 : 5.
If there are 45 chocolates in the box, how many are hard-centred and how many are soft-centred?
[1]
13) Mrs Clinton has 45 sweets which she wants to divide between her daughter Marissa and her son Walter
as a reward for extra work they have been doing in the garden.
Marissa has spent three hours working in the garden for every two that Walter spent.
(a) In what ratio should she divide the sweets?
_______ : _______
(b) How many sweets should Marissa and Walter get each? [2]

14) Calculate the average speed for each of the following.

(a) a bike that travels 145 km in 5 hours. (b) a train that travels 80 km in 40 minutes.
[2]
15) The CPI (Consumer Price Index) for the last financial year increased in the ratio 21 : 20.
This ratio increases the price of all products accordingly.
(a) Use the above ratio to calculate the new price of a Sports car that was worth $125 000.
$_______________
(b) Calculate the difference between the old price and new price and express this as a percentage of
[2]
the original price.
_______________%
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Section Three: Probability (20 marks)

1) Use one of the given words to describe events with these probabilities. Write your answer next to the number.

impossible unlikely even chance likely certain

a) 0.14 __________________ b) 0 __________________

c) 1 __________________ d) 0.5 __________________

e) 9 __________________
10 [5]

2) List the sample space for the following events:

(a) Tossing a 20 cent and a $1 coin.
[2]
(b) Choosing a number between 1 and 9

3) Melissa is rolling a regular six sided die. The results she gets are shown in the table.

Number showing 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 10 15 12 6 8 9

(a) Using these results, what is the probability of getting 2?

(b) Using these results, what is the probability of getting 4? [2]

4) An urn contains 4 red marbles, 5 green marbles and 5 white marbles.

If one marble is drawn at random from the urn, what is the probability of it being green?
[1]

5) Ten people, including, Steve, Genevieve, Olive and Dirk, wish to be elected as Form Captain.
The names are placed in a box and one name is drawn at random. What is:
(a) P(Steve being elected)?

(b) P(Olive or Steve being elected)?

(c) P(Olive, Steve or Genevieve not being elected)? [3]

6) A card is drawn from a standard deck of playing cards. What is:

(a) P(a black card)?

(b) P(not a spade, club or diamond)?

[3]
(c) P(not a numbered card divisible by two)?

7) You have a bag of twenty coloured counters. Given that:

P(yellow)= 0.2 P(green) = 0.1 _________ yellow
P(red) = 0.4 P(brown) = 0.3
_________ red [2]
How many of each coloured counter do you have?
_________ green

_________ brown

8) One ticket is randomly chosen in a lottery consisting of 100 tickets numbered 1 to 100.
Determine the probability that the ticket number is a multiple of 12. [2]
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Section Four: Algebra Techniques (20 marks)

1) Given that a = 3, b = -1 and c = 5, evaluate the following:
(a) a 2 – c = (b) c (a + b) [2]

2) Write the following statement in algebraic notation.

“I am thinking of a number that when it has four added to it and its answer is trebled, the final result is 18”

[1]
3) In the expression 3x − 2 y + 7z − 5
(a) What is the coefficient of z?
[2]
(b) Which is the constant term?

4) Evaluate the following expressions:

[2]
(a) 2 x 33 = (b) 5 x 22 + 2 x 32 =

5) Simplify fully the following expressions:

(a) 8a – 5b + 6 - 2b = (b) 3mn x 2m 2n 3 =

8h 4h 12 a 2 b 2 c
(c) + = (d) =
3 2 3 ab 4 c 2 [4]

6) An electrician charges a $75 callout fee, plus $45 per hour.

(a) Write this as an algebraic formula where c is the total charge and h is the number of hours worked.

(b) What is the charge if the electrician worked on a job for 3 hours?
[2]

7) Write 252 as a product of its prime factors, in index form if appropriate. [1]

8) Find the Highest Common Factor of 4a2bc and 12ab2d? [2]

9) Expand the following:

[2]
(a) 3( x + 4) = (b) 6 y(x + y) =

10) Fully factorise the following: [2]

(a) x + 4x =
2
(b) 2a − 6a =
6 2
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Section Five: Linear Equations (20 marks)

1) Jean is thinking of a number.

She takes five away from the number, divides the result by two and gets an answer of three.
What was the number she was originally thinking of? [1]

2) Use the backtracking method to solve the following equation. (You must show all working)
5( x + 4) = 35

[2]

3) Solve the following equations using an appropriate method:

(a) a + 11 = 16 (b) 2b – 3 = 11

d
(c) 8(c + 1) = 24 (d) + 7 = 10
3

4+ e 3 f
(e) = 5 (f) − 5 = 13
2 2

(g) 2( g − 7 ) (h) 5(2h – 2) = 25

= −4
3

(i) 3i + 9 = 5i − 3 (j) Seven apples cost $1.50 more than four apples.
What is the cost of an apple?
[11]

4) The shorter side of an isosceles triangle is 7cm less than the 2 equal sides.
If the perimeter of the triangle is 32cm, find the value of t. [2]

5) Solve the following inequalities and represent each solution on a separate number line.
(a) 6a > 30

[4]
(b) 5b
+ 10 ≤ 20
2
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Section Six: Graphing Relations (20 marks)

1) Complete the table using the given equation and plot the points on the number plane.
1
y= x +1
2
x -4 -2 0 2 4
Y

Join the points with a straight line.

[4]

2) Find the rule (linear equation) from the following

sets of points:

(-1, -6) (1, 0) (2, 3) (3, 6)

y = _______________
[2]

3) Draw the following lines on the provided number planes:

(a) y = 2x − 3 (b) y = 2− x

[4]

4) Write the rule (equation) of each straight line below:

a) b)

y= y=

[4]

Section continued over page...

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Graphing Relations (continued)

5) You are buying a new mobile phone.

The plan you chose charges 10 cents per text message sent plus a $5 monthly charge.
(a) Write an equation for the cost, C, of using your phone each month given the number of
[1]
text messages, T, you send.

(b) Complete the table (below) of values for the cost of using the phone and for sending up to 100
text messages per month.

T [2]
C

(c) Draw a graph of this relationship on the grid provided. You must determine your own scale.

[3]
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Section Seven: Geometry (20 marks)

1) Use your protractor to measure each of the following angles.
Choose the correct word from the following list to identify which type of angle they each are.

OBTUSE REFLEX RIGHT ACUTE

c
[6]
a = _________° b = _________° c = _________°

It is a(n) ____________ angle It is a(n) ____________ angle It is a(n) ____________ angle

2) Which is the larger angle, angle ABC or angle XYZ?

[1]
_________________

3) Circle the correct answer.

[2]

4) Calculate the size of the marked angles. Do NOT use your protractor to measure them. Give a suitable reason for each answer.

p = _____° because ____________ t = _____° because ____________

_____________________________ _____________________________

_____________________________ _____________________________

r = _____° because ____________ u = _____° because ____________

_____________________________ _____________________________

_____________________________ w = _____° because ____________

_____________________________

x = _____° because ____________ y = _____° because ____________ [7]

_____________________________ _____________________________

5) A fan switch has seven operating speeds apart from the off position (0).
a) If the knob is turned clockwise to 5, through how many degrees has it rotated?

____________°
b) How many less degrees would it have to turn if it rotated anti-clockwise?
[3]
____________° less

6) Look at the diagram of 8 dots on the left.

How many obtuse angles can be drawn joining any three dots? [1]
______________
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Section Eight: Measurement (20 marks)

1) Use your ruler to measure the lines below to the nearest cm? Write your answer on top of each line.

[2]
a) b)
2) In the space to the right, draw a circle and on it
draw and label a tangent, chord and sector. [3]

3) Find the perimeter of each of the following figures.

______________ cm ______________ cm ______________ cm [3]

4) Circle the best answer for each of the following.

[2]

5) The area of the parallelogram to the right is 48 cm2.

Length a = ___________ cm
[2]
Length b = ___________ cm

6) Work out the surface area of this rectangular prism. You must show some working.

[3]
_______________ cm2

7) Only one of the cubes can be made from the net. Circle the one you think it is.

[1]

8) What is the volume of an octagonal prism if the area of one octagonal end is 50 cm2 and the height of the prism is 12cm?

_______________ cm3 [1]

9) What is the perimeter of the shape to the left?
Show your working and round your final answer to the nearest whole number.

_____________ cm [3]
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Section Nine: Statistics (20 marks)

1) For each of the following possible investigations, classify the variable using ONE of the classifications below.
Place the letter of each investigation under the correct classification.
A The number of goals scored each week by a netball team
B The heights of the members of a football team
C The preferred clothing brand of each family member
D The number of leaves on the stems of plants in a greenhouse
E The type of pets owned by students in a Year 9 class
F The amount of rainfall in each month of the year

CATEGORICAL QUANTITATIVE DISCRETE QUANTITATIVE CONTINUOUS

[6]
2) Two teams of athletes wanted to compare their heights to see which group was taller overall.
The following results are the heights (cm) of each team.

TEAM A 164 184 162 186 175 184 167 178 176 150
TEAM B 186 194 153 186 164 166 164 156 187 198

By calculating the mean, median, mode(s) and range for each team comment on which one is taller overall. State your reasons.

Team A Team B My conclusion is that Team _______ is taller overall because

mean is _____ cm mean is _____ cm __________________________________________________

[6]
median is _____ cm median is _____ cm __________________________________________________

mode is _____ cm mode is _____ cm __________________________________________________

range is _____ cm range is _____ cm __________________________________________________

3) Five students in a tug of war team had a mean weight of 65kg.
One other student was added to the team bringing the mean weight up to 66kg.
How much did the new team member weigh?

________ kg [1]

4) The bar chart below shows the favourite subject for some Year 9 students who took part in a survey.

a) Which subject is the mode?

——————————
b) How many students took part in
the survey altogether?

——————————
c) Name one thing that is missing
from this graph.

—————————— [3]
5) Weights of students in rugby squad Answer the following questions relating to the histogram on the left.

a) What is the modal weight of the students in the squad?

—————
Frequency

b) How many students weigh between 90kg and 100kg?

—————
c) How many students weigh less than 80 kg?
—————
d) Three of the students were away on the day they were weighed.
If their weights were included in this histogram then the shape of the graph
would be symmetrical. What could their three weights have been?

________kg , ________kg and ________ kg [4]

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