IGCSE Math B Online Oct

Golden Bridge Education Centre
IGCSE- Mathematics B MONTHLY TEST – October

Time allowed – 1:30 Hour Tr. Suzan
Instructions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
center number and candidate number.
• Answer all questions.
• Without sufficient working, correct answers may be awarded no marks.
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
Information
• The total mark for this paper is 65.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end.
Answer all TEN questions.

Write your answers in the A4 paper.
You must write down all the stages in your working.
Question 1
The nth term of a sequence is given by 6n2 −5
Find the difference between the 2nd term and the 4th term of the sequence.
[2]
Question 2
Find the Highest Common Factor (HCF) of 60 and 165
Show your working clearly. [2]
Question 3
Factorize fully 6af + 30f2 [2]
Question 4
Without using a calculator and showing all your working, calculate
Give your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form. [2]
Question 5
Solve the inequality 5x ≤ 3x + 15 [2]
Question 6
Calculate
Give your answer in standard form. [2]

Question 7
The price of a holiday is reduced by 4% in a sale.
Haniya pays $600 of the sale price when she books the holiday.
She pays the remainder of the sale price in 4 equal monthly payments of $180.
Calculate the price of the holiday before the sale. [3]
Question 8
Without using a calculator and showing your working clearly, find the value of the
integer a so that
[3]
Question 9
(a) Write down the value of a0 where a > 0 [1]
(b) Simplify fully 2w2 × 11w5 [1]
(c) Simplify fully [2]
Question 10
P is inversely proportional to the square root of W
P = 1600 when W = 1.96
Find the value of W when P = 800 [4]
Question 11
Simplify
Show your working clearly. [5]
Question 12
(a) Use the factor theorem to show that (x + 1) is a factor of 18x3 – 9x2 – 17x + 10.
[2]
3 2
(b) Factorise fully 18x – 9x – 17x + 10.
Show clear algebraic working. [4]
Question 13
(a) Work out the value of I.

Give your answer in standard form correct to 3 significant figures. [2]
(b) Rearrange the formula I = kT4 to make T the subject. [2]
Question 14
A sequence of numbers is shown.
2 9 16 23 30 ... ...
(a) Find an expression for the nth term of the sequence. [2]
(b) Find the 100th term in the sequence. [2]
Question 15
A farmer grows 300 pumpkins.
The pumpkins are small or medium or giant.
It cost the farmer $1.25 to grow each small pumpkin.
He sells each small pumpkin for $1.30
(a) Calculate the percentage profit the farmer makes on each small pumpkin he
sells. [2]
The farmer sells each medium pumpkin for 20% more than he sells each small
pumpkin.
(b) Calculate the price, in $, that the farmer sells each medium pumpkin for. [2]
Of the 300 pumpkins, 28% are small.

(c) Calculate the number of small pumpkins the farmer grows. [2]
The remaining pumpkins are medium or giant.

The ratio of medium pumpkins to giant pumpkins is 3 : 5
(d) Calculate the number of giant pumpkins the farmer grows. [2]
The farmer sells all of his giant pumpkins for the same price.
The farmer’s profit from giant pumpkins is
30% of the selling price of the first 50 giant pumpkins sold,
60% of the selling price of the next 40 giant pumpkins sold,
90% of the selling price of the remaining giant pumpkins sold.
(e) Calculate the percentage of the total selling price of the giant pumpkins that is
the farmer’s profit from giant pumpkins.
Give your answer to the nearest whole number. [4]
Question 16
f (x) = 3x3 + ax2 - 20x + b where a and b are integers.
(x + 4) is a factor of f(x)
(x − 2) is a factor of f(x)
(a) Use the factor theorem to find the value of a and the value of b [3]
One solution of the equation
(b) Without using a calculator and showing all your working, find the other 2
solutions of the equation.
Give your answers in exact form. [5]
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IGCSE- Mathematics B MONTHLY TEST – October

Answer all TEN questions.

Give your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form. [2]

Give your answer in standard form. [2]

(c) Simplify fully [2]

Show your working clearly. [5]

(a) Work out the value of I.

Of the 300 pumpkins, 28% are small.

The remaining pumpkins are medium or giant.

One solution of the equation

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