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Monday 6 November 2017 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
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• a calculator
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• mathematical instruments.
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Instructions
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• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Draw diagrams in pencil.
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• Answer all questions.
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• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write
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• Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to 16–17
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• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
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• The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
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1 Circle the fraction that is equivalent to 3.875

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15 29 31 15
4 8 8 8

2 What is 50 as a percentage of 20?

Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

10% 40% 150% 250%

3 Circle the point that does not lie on the curve y = x3

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 1 1  1 1
− , −  (5, 125)  ,  (–1, –1)
 2 8 3 9

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4 Which one of these is a unit of density?

Circle your answer.
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kg/m2 m2/kg kg/m3 m3/kg

5 Solve 4(3x − 2) = 2x 5
[3 marks]

x=

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6 The graph shows information about prisms with the same volume.

6 (a) Give one example to show the volume is 24 cm3

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6 (b) The diagram shows a prism with volume 24 cm3

The height of the triangular cross section is h.

Work out the height, h.

[3 marks]

Answer cm

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7 Describe fully the single transformation that maps triangle A to triangle B.

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8 The table shows information about the distances walked by 120 students on their way to
school one week.

Distance, x (miles) Frequency

0<x⩽5 20

5 < x ⩽ 10 48

10 < x ⩽ 15 30

15 < x ⩽ 20 22

Total = 120

Work out an estimate for the mean distance.

[3 marks]

Answer miles

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9 Work out the size of angle x.

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[2 marks]

Answer degrees

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10 Work out the next term of this quadratic sequence.

[2 marks]

5 8 14 23 ……

Answer

3x2
11 Circle the expression that is equivalent to
6x 2 + 3
[1 mark]

x2 x2 x2 1 2
2 2 2
+ x
2x + 3 6x + 1 2x + 1 2

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12 The table shows information about the UK and Germany.

Population Area (square miles)

UK 64 000 000 95 000

Germany 82 000 000 140 000

population
Population density =
area

Compare the population densities of the UK and Germany.

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13 Two straight lines intersect at point P.

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Circle the coordinates of P.

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 1   1 
(–3, –1)  − 1, −  (–1, –3)  − , − 1
 3   3 

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14 A ball is thrown from a height of 15 metres.

It bounces to height h1 , then to height h2 as shown.

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h1 is three quarters of the original height.

14 (a) Jack expects h2 to be three quarters of h1

Work out the value of h2 that he expects.

[2 marks]

Answer metres

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14 (b) In fact, h2 is two thirds of h1

How does this affect the answer to part (a)?

Tick a box.

The ball bounced higher than he expected

The ball bounced lower than he expected

Show working to support your answer.

[2 marks]

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15 Mirek invests £6000 at a compound interest rate of 1.5% per year.

He wants to earn more than £1000 interest.

Work out the least time, in whole years, that this will take.
[3 marks]

Answer years

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16 (a) Factorise fully 9y – 6y
[2 marks]

Answer

2
16 (b) Factorise 3x – 22x + 7
[2 marks]

Answer

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17 Work out the area of the parallelogram.

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[3 marks]

Answer cm2

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18 (a)

Which of these represents the shaded region?

Circle your answer.
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A B/ A ∩ B/ A U B/

18 (b)

Which of these represents the shaded region?

Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

(A U B)/ (A ∩ B)/ A/ ∩ B A/ U B/

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19 The length of a rectangle is five times the width.

The area of the rectangle is 1620 cm2
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Work out the width of the rectangle.

[3 marks]

Answer cm

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20 A stone is thrown upwards with a speed of v metres per second.

The stone reaches a maximum height of h metres.

h is directly proportional to v2
When v = 10, h = 5

Work out the maximum height reached when v = 24

[4 marks]

Answer m

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21 (a) Meera is using a graphical method to solve 2x – 3x = 0

She draws the graph of y = 2x2 and a straight line graph on the same grid.

Here is the graph of y = 2x2

2
Complete her method to solve 2x – 3x = 0
[2 marks]

Answer

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2
21 (b) Levi is solving 2x + 5x = 0
He uses this method.

2x2 + 5x = 0 subtract 5x from both sides

2
2x = –5x divide both sides by x

2x = –5 divide both sides by 2

x = –2.5

Evaluate his method and his answer.

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22 The cross section of an earring is a semicircle, centre C, radius 25 mm

The earring is black and white.

The shaded area is black.

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Sector BCD is white and has radius 12 mm

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Is more than 20% of the semicircle white?

You must show your working.
[5 marks]

Answer

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23 Here is some information about a tennis club.

Members of a tennis club

There are 30 members with A < 20

There are 12 members with 65 ⩽ A < 80
There are no members with A ⩾ 80

23 (a) Complete the histogram.

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23 (b) Work out the total number of members of the club.

[2 marks]

Answer

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24 Beth ran a 200 metre race.

Here is a graph of the first 8 seconds of her race.
She completed the race at a constant speed of 9 m/s

Speed-time graph for Beth

Amy completed the race in 27 seconds.

Did Beth finish before Amy?

You must show your working.
[3 marks]

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25 The dimensions of a rectangular floor are to the nearest 0.1 metres.

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2.6 m

6.4 m

A force of 345 Newtons is applied to the floor.

The force is to the nearest 5 Newtons.

force
pressure =
area

Work out the upper bound of the pressure.

Give your answer to 4 significant figures.
You must show your working.
[5 marks]

Answer N/m2

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26 ABCDE is a pentagon.

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Show that BCDE is a parallelogram.

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27 x 2x
Solve – = 1
4 x+2
Give your solutions to 2 decimal places.
You must show your working.
[6 marks]

Answer

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