13 Kings Scholarship Maths A Paper 2014 Eton College

Eton College King's Scholarship Examination 2014
(One and a half hours)
MATHEMATICS A
Answer Question 1 and as many of the other five questions as you can.
Question 1 is worth 50 marks. All other questions are worth 10 marks each.
Show all of your working. The use of calculators is not permitted.
Do not turn over until told to do so.
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1. This question is compulsory.
(a) Calculate the following, leaving your answers as simplified fractions:

(i) 4 121  5 485 [3]
34 42
(ii)  [3]
35 51
(b) Calculate 115% of 80% of £15. [3]
(c) In the diagram below, ABCDE is a straight line and all three lengths BF, CF
and CD are equal. Given that angle ABF = 118o, calculate the angle EDF
(marked as xo in the diagram). [2]
F
Diagram not
to scale
118º x°
A B C D E
(d) What do I subtract from 4  5x to get 4 x  5 ? [3]
(e) Solve the following equations, giving your answers as simplified fractions:
3 5
(i)  a  5  [3]
28 8
1
(ii) 1  b  b  1 [3]
3
(f) Solve the simultaneous equations:

11x  8 y  18
[4]
7 x  4 y  16
(g) Solve the following inequalities:

2 1
(i) x  1 x [3]
3 2
(ii) 2 x  7  2  7 x [3]
(h) Two circles have radii 0.4 cm and 1.2 cm. The area of the smaller circle is x
and the total area of the two circles is y. What percentage of y is x? [4]
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(i) The diagram shows a triangle ABC. The point P lies on the side BC and angle
CPA is 90o. AB and AP are 4 cm and 2.4 cm respectively. PC is 1 cm.
(i) Show that AC has length 2.6 cm. [3]
(ii) Calculate the perimeter of the triangle ABC. [4]
Diagram not
to scale
B P C
(j) Edward scores an average of 26 runs in his first three cricket matches.
After his first five cricket matches, he scores an average of 27.8 runs.
If he scored 9 more runs in his fifth match than he did in his fourth match,
how many runs did he score in his fifth match? [4]
(k) (i) By what do you multiply 5 14 to get 7? Give your answer as an exact
fraction. [2]
a ab
(ii) By what do you multiply to get ? [3]
2b 4
Show that  a  2b   a 2  4ab  4b2 .

2
2. (a) [2]
Multiply out and simplify the expression  a  2b    2a  b  .

2 2
(b) (i) [3]
(ii) Hence calculate 10022  19992 . [2]
(c) Find two whole numbers n and m such that n2  m2  20000245 . [3]
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3. (a) In the diagram below, the lines AB and ED are parallel.
Angles ABC, BCD and CDE are xo, yo and zo respectively.
Giving reasons, show that x – y – z + 180 = 0. [4]
B A
x°
Diagram not to scale
C
y°
z°
E D
(b) The diagram below shows a parallelogram PQRS.

The two lengths PX and QX are equal.
The two angles SRX and QRX are equal.
(a) Giving reasons, show that triangle XQR is isosceles. [2]
(b) Giving reasons, show that angle SXR is a right angle. [4]
P X Q
Diagram not
to scale
S R
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4. You are given that 123456789  3803 32463 .
(a) Write down the answers to the following calculations:
(i) 0.3803 32463000 [1]
12345.6789
(ii) [2]
380300
12345.6789
(iii) [2]
0.03803
3803123456789
(iv) [2]
3803
38033803  3246332463
(b) Calculate the value of . [3]
123456789
5. In this question, a word is defined to be a set of letters, each letter of which is either an L or
an R, written down in order. A word is good if it does not contain 3 consecutive letters which
are the same. Otherwise a word is bad. The length of a word is the number of letters in it.
For example, LRRL is a good word of length 4 and is a different good word to LRLR.
LRRRL and LRLLLLR are both bad words.
(a) Write down all the good words of length 4. [2]
(b) If I write down a good word which ends in LR, explain why I can make two different
good words from it by adding a letter at the end. Would this be true if I started with a
good word ending in LL?
[2]
(c) Copy and complete the following table.
Number of Number of Number of

good words of good words of good words of
length 4 length 5 length 6
Last two letters LL 2
Last two letters RL 3 8
Last two letters RR 2
Last two letters LR 3
[2]
(e) How many good words are there of length 15?
[4]
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6. The number 12 has 6 factors (1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12).
(a) Find the number of factors (you need not list them) for each of the following:
(i) 75
(ii) 847 [2]
(b) Explain clearly why 74 113 has exactly 20 factors. [2]
(c) How many factors does 24  32  5  73 have? [2]
(d) Explain why all square numbers have an odd number of factors. [2]
(e) Find the smallest number with exactly 36 factors. [2]
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Eton College King's Scholarship Examination 2014

(One and a half hours)

Show all of your working. The use of calculators is not permitted.

Do not turn over until told to do so.

(a) Calculate the following, leaving your answers as simplified fractions:

(b) Calculate 115% of 80% of £15. [3]

(d) What do I subtract from 4  5x to get 4 x  5 ? [3]

(f) Solve the simultaneous equations:

(g) Solve the following inequalities:

Show that  a  2b   a 2  4ab  4b2 .

Multiply out and simplify the expression  a  2b    2a  b  .

(ii) Hence calculate 10022  19992 . [2]

Giving reasons, show that x – y – z + 180 = 0. [4]

(b) The diagram below shows a parallelogram PQRS.

(a) Giving reasons, show that triangle XQR is isosceles. [2]

(a) Write down the answers to the following calculations:

(i) 0.3803 32463000 [1]

(a) Write down all the good words of length 4. [2]

Number of Number of Number of

(b) Explain clearly why 74 113 has exactly 20 factors. [2]

(c) How many factors does 24  32  5  73 have? [2]

(e) Find the smallest number with exactly 36 factors. [2]

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