Answer all questions and show your working clearly.
Give non-exact numerical
answers correct to 3 significant figures, or 1 decimal place in the case of angles in
degrees, unless a different level of accuracy is specified in the question. The use of
an electronic calculator is expected, where appropriate
1. Evaluate the following and correct your answer to 5 significant figures.
√
2
3 (1.92)
(4.3)3− √ 4.788
Ans : ______________________ [1]
2. a) Subtract 2 x3 +5 x 2−4 x+ 3 from 7 x 2+ 5 x 3−4 x−5.
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b) Hence, find the value of (a) if the x=−5 . Give your answer to the nearest integer.
2
Ans : a)______________________ [2]
b) ______________________[2]
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√29 × 33
3. Evaluate 2 , giving your answer correct to 2 decimal places.
0.6
Ans : ______________________ [1]
3(f −h) 7 ( h+k ) 5 (k −f )
4. Express − + as a fraction in its simplest form.
4 6 2
Ans : ______________________ [3]
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5. a) Expand and simplify
2
i) ( 6 x +9 y )−4(−x−3 y) ii) 7 x−[3 x−{4 x−2(x+ 3 y )}]
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Ans : i)______________________ [2] ii) ______________________[2]
b) Factorise 14 p−56 px−42 py completely.
Ans : b)_____________________ [2]
b+c a+bc
c) Given that a=3 , b=2, c=−1, evaluate + .
a b
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Ans : c)_____________________ [2]
6. a) Find the difference between 3 y minutes and 25 y seconds, giving your answer in
seconds.
b) Find the sum of 50(3 z−2) minutes and 4 (z +1) hours, giving your answer in
seconds.
Ans : a)______________________ [2]
b) ______________________[2]
7. The length of a rectangle is 7 cm longer than its breadth.
a) Find the perimeter of the rectangle if the breadth is x cm.
b) Find the area of the rectangle if x is 3.
Ans : a)______________________ [2]
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b) ______________________[2]
8. Livy has three ribbons of lengths 228 cm, 180 cm and 192 cm respectively. She
wishes to cut all the ribbons into equal number of pieces without any leftover ribbons.
Find
a) the largest possible length of each piece of ribbons,
b) the total number of pieces of ribbons that Livy has cut.
Ans : a)______________________ [3]
b) ______________________[2]
9. a) Find the prime factors of 45 and 105 and write your answers in index notation.
b) Hence, find the LCM of 45 and 105.
Ans : a)______________________ [2]
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b) ______________________[2]
10. Grace makes the following orders from a supermarket.
Item Quantity
Cost
Apples 18 3 for 99 cents
Bananas 1.2 kg $1.50 per kg
Potatoes 2 kg 81 cents per kg
Tomatoes 2.2 kg $3.40 per kg
Show how you estimate the total
amount of money she has to pay, giving your answer correct to the nearest dollar.
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Answer : ___________________ [3]
11. The following diagram shows the sides of isosceles triangle.
a) Express the perimeter of the triangle in terms
of x and y , in the simplest form.
b) If x=2.4 and y=1.2 , find the perimeter of the triangle.
Ans : a)______________________ [2]
b) ______________________[1]
12. A shopkeeper bought 120 apples at h cents each and 180 oranges at k cents each.
He packs them into bags which contain 2 apples and 3 oranges and sells each bag
of fruit for (3 h+ 4 k ) cents each. Write down, in terms of h and k , an expression for
a) the amount of money he spent on the fruits,
b) the total amount of money for which he sold all the bags of fruit,
c) the amount he earned from selling all the fruits.
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Ans : a)______________________ [1]
b) ______________________[2]
c) ______________________[2]
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13. In a school there are 247 secondary 1 students. of these students are in class A.
19
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Given that there are 7 more than of the students in class A travel to school by car.
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a) Find the number of students in class A who do not travel to school by car.
b) Find the fraction of students in class A who travel to school by car. Give your
answer in simplest form.
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Ans : a)______________________ [3]
b) ______________________[2]
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