SURNAME ............................................................................... FIRST NAME .............................................................................

JUNIOR SCHOOL ................................................................... SENIOR SCHOOL .....................................................................

COMMON ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION

MATHEMATICS
Tuesday 8 May 2018

Please read this information before the examination starts.

• This examination is 90 minutes long.

• There are two sections: Section A and Section B.

• Answer all the questions in Section A.

• Attempt as many questions in Section B as you can.

• You may attempt the questions in any order.

• You may not use a calculator for this examination.

• Show all your working.

• Concentrate on complete solutions to questions rather than fragmentary answers.

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 SECTION A
(40 marks)

Answer ALL the questions in this section.

1. Write
7
(i) 8 as a decimal

Answer: ..................................... (1)

7
(ii) 80 as a decimal

Answer: ..................................... (1)

2. Calculate
3 1 1
(i) 2
2 3
4 2

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(ii) 10% of 20% of 30% of 50% of 1200

Answer: ..................................... (2)

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3. Simplify

(i) 3p(2p 2 4r) 2 4r(r 2 2p)

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(ii) 6a2b 3 (2ab)2

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(iii) (2xy 2 )3 4 (3x 2y )2

Answer: ..................................... (2)

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4. If a 5 2 b 5 3 c 5 24 calculate the value of

(i) 6a 2 5bc

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(ii) a 2 1 2b 2 2 c 2

Answer: ..................................... (2)

a bb a
(iii)
c3

Answer: ..................................... (2)

5. Use the result 34 3 825 5 28 050 to write down the value of

(i) 3.4 3 82.5 4 2

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(ii) 28 084 4 34

Answer: ..................................... (1)

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 (iii) 34 3 165

Answer: ..................................... (1)

6. The figure shows a regular pentagon and a regular hexagon touching edge to edge.

Calculate the size of the angles marked m and n

not to scale

m n

°
Answer: m 5............................. (3)
°
Answer: n 5.............................. (2)

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7. (i) Write 54 as the product of prime factors.

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(ii) Given that 30 5 2 3 3 3 5 write down the lowest common multiple of 30 and 54

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(iii) Consider (30 3 54) 3 n

Calculate the smallest value of n that makes (30 3 54) 3 n a cube number.

Answer: ..................................... (2)

8. (a) The mean of five numbers is 6.4

The mean of three of these numbers is 7.8

Calculate the mean of the other two numbers.

Answer: ..................................... (2)

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 (b) If n is the first of a sequence of four consecutive odd numbers

(i) write down an expression, in terms of n, for each of the other three numbers in
the sequence

Answer: n, ..............., ..............., ................ (1)

(ii) calculate the mean of the four odd numbers in terms of n

Answer: ..................................... (2)

9. (i) Solve the following inequalities:

(a) 7 2 3d  22

Answer: ..................................... (2)

2
(b) (d 1 1)  21
3

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(ii) List the integers that satisfy both inequalities in part (i).

Answer: ............................................. (1)

(Total marks for Section A: 40)

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 SECTION B
(60 marks)

Attempt as many questions as you can in this section.

1. (a) Work out as simply as possible

(i) 15 2 16 1 17 2 18 1 19 2 20 1 21 2 22

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(ii) 97 3 48 1 482 2 48 3 45

Answer: ..................................... (2)

511 49 3 51
(iii)
20 3 5.1

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(b) In May, Jacques spent 80% of his monthly salary and saved the rest.
In June, his monthly salary increased by £800, and he saved 15% of his new
monthly salary.
If he saved the same amount in May and in June, find his new monthly salary.

Answer: £ .................................. (3)

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2. (i) Solve the simultaneous equations

2x 1 y 5 9
5x 2 3y 5 17

Answer: x 5 ................ y 5 ................ (3)

(ii) Use your answers to part (i) to write down all the solutions to these simultaneous
equations:

(a) 2 c 1 d 5 9
5 c 2 3 d 5 17

Answer: c 5 ................ d 5 ................ (1)

(b) 2r 2 s 5 27
5r 1 3s 5 51

Answer: r 5 ................ s 5 ................ (2)

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3. (i) Write down the next two terms in each of the following sequences:

(a) 1 8 27 64 ..........  .......... (1)

(b) 3 12 27 48 ..........  .......... (2)

(ii) Use your answers to part (i) to write down the next two terms in these sequences.

(a) 22 24 0 16 ..........  .......... (2)

3 3
(b) 3 2 1 4 ..........  .......... (2)

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(iii) In the sequence in (ii)(b), what is the value of the first term that is less than 20 ?

Answer: ..................................... (1)

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4. Lucy drives her car from A to B at a speed of 30 km/h for 6 minutes.
She then drives from B to C at a speed of 90 km/h for 12 minutes.

(i) Calculate the average speed of Lucy’s car in km/h for the journey from A to B to C.

Answer: ............................ km/h (3)

Lucy now drives her car at 90 km/h from C to D.

(ii) How long will the journey from C to D take if the car has an average speed of
75 km/h for the whole journey from A to B to C to D?

Answer: .............................. min (4)

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5. (i) (a) Complete the table of values for the curve y542 x
2

x 23 22 21 0 1 2 3

y 21 3 21 2
2
(2)

1 2
(b) Draw and label the graph of y542 x on the axes below. (2)
2
\


         [









1 2
(ii) Reflect the graph of y542 x in the line y 5 2x (3)
2
The curves intersect at (22, 2).

(iii) At which other point do you think the curves cross?

Answer: (................. , ................) (1)

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6. Steven has a fair six-sided dice whose faces are numbered: 2, 2, 4, 4, 4 and 6
Claude has a fair six-sided dice whose faces are numbered: 1, 3, 3, 3, 5, and 5

(i) If they each throw their dice, what is the probability that Steven will throw a higher
score than Claude?
You may wish to complete the table showing when Steven’s score is higher than
Claude’s.   

Claude’s score

> 1 3 3 3 5 5
key: 2 > 1 ✓
2 4>3 ✓
2 ✓ 6>3 ✓
Steven’s
4
score
4 ✓
4
6 ✓

Answer: ..................................... (3)

(ii) Alter one of the numbers on one of the dice so that each boy has an equal chance
of throwing the higher score.
(You can only use numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 )

Answer: .............................’s numbers are now ......., ......., ......., ......., ......., ....... (1)

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7. A farmer, Mr Greenfield, stands by a stone (S ) in the middle of his meadow.
He walks for 120 metres on a bearing of 050°, then turns and walks for 80 metres on a
bearing of 140° until he gets to a post (P ) where he stops.

(i) Draw a sketch of Mr Greenfield’s walk but do not complete a scale drawing.

(2)

From the post, Mr Greenfield walks on a bearing of 230° then stops at a gate (G ).

(ii) If the gate is 100 m from the stone, how far did he walk from the post to the gate?
(Hint: there are two possible answers)

Answer: ............................. m or ............................. m (3)

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8. A rectangle, 10 cm by 6 cm, has its four corners snipped off to form a logo with a rotational
symmetry 2

2 cm x cm not to
1 cm scale
y cm
3 cm
6 cm

10 cm

(i) Calculate the value of y

Answer: y 5............................... (1)

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(ii) Calculate the value of x if the logo has 6
of the area of the original rectangle.

Answer: x 5............................... (2)

(iii) Calculate the perimeter of the logo, leaving your answer in the form a 1 b c ,
where a, b and c are whole numbers.

Answer: ................................ cm (3)

(iv) If the logo is enlarged and its new area is 450 cm2, calculate its new perimeter.

Answer: ................................ cm (2)

TURN OVER FOR QUESTION 9

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9. The operation represented by the symbol © is defined as

x © y 5 x 1 y 2 xy

(i) Calculate

(a) 7 © 11

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(b) (3 © 4) © 5

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(ii) Simplify the expression

a © (a © a)

Answer: ...................................................... (3)

(Total marks for Section B: 60)

(Total marks for paper: 100)

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