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Answer all the questions.

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

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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 ______________________

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Two conical flasks A and B made of the same material are geometrically similar and the ratio of their heights is 3 : 4. (a)

The diameter of the base of the larger conical vessel B is 16 cm. Calculate the 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) ____________ : ____________ 4

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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

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(b) _____________________ songs

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b5  b2  b3 Simplify and give your answer in the form b n b

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 5  Simplify    2x 

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Answer (a) __________________________

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(b) __________________________

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

Answer $ ____________________________

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Evaluate the following, giving your answers correct to 3 significant figures: (a)

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2  4  3  7      1   , 7  9  5  9 0.3234 3 32.54  9.329

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Answer (a) __________________________

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(b) __________________________

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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

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(b) ________________________ ºC

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A model is made of the National Stadium to a scale of 1 : 150. (a) If the height of the stadium in the model is 25 cm, find the actual height of the stadium in metres.

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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 (b) _______________________ cm2 10

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(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) __________________________

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(b)(i)_________________________

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(ii) __________________________

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(a)

Jane has three rolls of ribbons measuring 288 cm, 416 cm and 640 cm

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respectively. The ribbons are to be cut into smaller pieces of the same length leaving no ribbon wasted. Find

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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) __________________________

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(b) __________________________

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13 cm

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5 cm

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6 cm

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

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(a) (b)

the length of AB, cos ACD ,

(c)

area of ACD .

(a)

(b)

Answer (a) _______________________ cm

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(b) __________________________

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(c) _______________________ cm2

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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. 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) __________________________

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(b) __________________________

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(a)

Draw a quadrilateral ABCD with AB as the base given that AB = 10

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(b)

cm, AD = 8 cm, ADC  100, BAD  75 and ABC  80. Construct the angle bisector of BAD

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Construct the perpendicular bisector of DC

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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 people.

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Find the probability that (a) the first winner is a female, (b) (c)

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a boy was chosen during both picks, among the two winners, at least one of them is an adult.

Answer (a) __________________________

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(b) __________________________

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(c) __________________________   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,

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(c)

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

Answer (a) __________________________

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(b) __________________________

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(c) __________________________

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In the diagram, BC = 10 cm, AC = 14 cm, AD = 7 cm, BD = 2 cm and ABC  AED .

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Explain why triangles ABC and AED are similar.

(b) (c)

Find the length of DE. Calculate the area of quadrilateral BDEC if the area of AED is 9 cm2.

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Answer (a) ________________________________________________________

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________________________________________________________ (b) _______________________ cm

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(c) _______________________ cm2

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The graph represents the speed of a car, in metres per second, for its journey. Initially, it is travelling at a constant speed of 20 m/s for 2 seconds, then it slows 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.

Speed (m/s) 20 v

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(a) (b)

Find the speed of the car after 5 seconds. Find the value of v.

(c)

Sketch the distance time graph for the whole journey.

Time (s)

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Distance (m) 16 160 0

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120 0

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080 10 60 0 40 20 80

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Time (s)

Answer (a) _______________________m/s

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(b) _______________________m/s

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

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Find the values of m, c and k. Write down the equation of the line of symmetry of the curve y  ( x  2)( x  k ) .

Answer (a) _____________________ units2 (b) m = _______________________

[1] [3]

c = _______________________ k = _______________________ (c) __________________________

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(a)

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

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Answer (a)

y

[2]

x

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(i) (ii)

Express x 2  6 x  2 in the form ( x  b)2  c Sketch the graph of y  x 2  6 x  2 Answer (b)(i) x 2  6 x  2 = ___________________ (ii)

y

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The information below show the mass of 1000 packages of 1 kg rice packed by two machines X and Y.

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Machine X Mass (g)

980 - 990

990 – 1000

1000 – 1010

1010 – 1020

Frequency

125

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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

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Answer (b) __________________________________________________

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___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________

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Solve the simultaneous equations 6 x  2 y  3

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1 y2 3

Answer x = __________________________

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y = __________________________ (b)

Solve the inequalities 4x  4  x  1  3x  3 2

Show your solution on the number line in the answer space.

Answer (b)

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-3

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-1

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