1 Roberto buys a toy for $5.00 .

He then sells it for $4.60 .

Calculate his percentage loss.

............................................. % [2]

2 Simplify 8t8 / 4t4.

. ................................................ [2]

3 Calculate (3 × 10-3) 3.
Give your answer in standard form.

. ................................................ [1]
4 Karel travelled from London to Johannesburg and then from Johannesburg to Windhoek.

(a) The flight from London to Johannesburg took 11 hours 10 minutes.

The average speed was 813 km/h.

Calculate the distance travelled from London to Johannesburg.

Give your answer correct to the nearest 10 km.

........................................... km [3]

(b) The total time for Karel’s journey from London to Windhoek was 15 hours 42 minutes.
The total distance travelled from London to Windhoek was 10 260 km.

(i) Calculate the average speed for this journey.

........................................ km/h [2]

 (ii) The cost of Karel’s journey from London to Windhoek was $470.

(a) Calculate the distance travelled per dollar.

........................... km per dollar [1]

(b) Calculate the cost per 100 km of this journey.

Give your answer correct to the nearest cent.

$ .............................. per 100 km [2]

(c) Karel changed $300 into 3891 Namibian dollars.

Complete the statement.

$1 = ............................ Namibian dollars [1]

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5 (a) Beth invests $2000 at a rate of 2% per year compound interest.

(i) Calculate the value of this investment at the end of 5 years.

$.................................................. [2]

(ii) Calculate the overall percentage increase in the value of Beth’s investment at the end of
5 years.

............................................. % [2]

(iii) Calculate the minimum number of complete years it takes for the value of Beth’s investment
to increase from $2000 to more than $2500.

. ................................................ [3]

(b) The population of a village decreases exponentially at a rate of 4% each year.

The population is now 255.

Calculate the population 16 years ago.

. ................................................ [3]

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6 (a) Complete these statements.

The reciprocal of 0.2 is ................................

A prime number between 90 and 100 is ................................ [2]

(b) 7
0.6 7 8 9
5
From this list, write down an irrational number.

. ................................................ [1]
7 The force of attraction, F Newtons, between two magnets is inversely proportional to the square of the
distance, d cm, between the magnets.

When d = 1.5, F = 48.

(a) Find an expression for F in terms of d.

F =................................................... [2]

(b) When the distance between the two magnets is doubled the new force is n times the original force.

Work out the value of n.

n =................................................... [1]

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8 Simplify.
2x2 - 5x - 12
3x2 - 12x

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9 Find the highest common factor (HCF) of 12a3b and 20a2b2 .

. ................................................ [2]
10 The Venn diagram shows the number of students in a class of 40 who study physics
mathematics (M) and geography (G).
(P),
%
P M

2
4 11

9
5
3

6
G

(a) Use set notation to describe the shaded region.

. ................................................ [1]

(b) Find n((P ∩ G) U M l).

. ................................................ [1]

(c) A student is chosen at random from those studying geography.

Find the probability that this student also studies physics or mathematics but not both.

. ................................................ [2]

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11 (a) y is directly proportional to the cube root of (x + 1).
When x = 7, y = 1.

Find the value of y when x = 124.

y = .................................................. [3]

(b) F is inversely proportional to the square of d.

Explain what happens to F when d is halved.

. ................................................................................................................................................ [1]
12 (a) (i) At a football club, season tickets are sold for seated areas and for standing areas.
The cost of season tickets are in the ratio seated : standing = 5 : 3.
The cost of a season ticket for the standing area is $45.

Find the cost of a season ticket for the seated area.

$.................................................. [2]

(ii) In 2021, the value of the team’s players was $2.65 million.
In 2022 this value has decreased by 12%.

Find the value in 2022.

$ ..................................... million [2]

(iii) The number of people at a football match is 1455.

This is 6.25% of the total number of people allowed in the stadium.

Find the total number of people allowed in the stadium.

. ................................................ [2]

(iv) The average attendance increased exponentially by 4% each year for the three years from
2016 to 2019.
In 2019 the average attendance was 1631.

Find the average attendance for 2016.

. ................................................ [3]
13 (a) Solve.
4x + 15 = 9

x =................................................... [2]

(b) Factorise.
a2 - 9

. ................................................ [1]

(c) Write as a single fraction in its simplest form.

4a ' 3ad
5 10c

. ................................................ [3]

(d) 5n + 5n + 5n + 5n + 5n = 5m

Find an expression for m in terms of n.

m =................................................... [2]

(e) Solve by factorisation.

4x2 + 8x - 5 = 0

x = .................. or x = ..................... [3]

(f) (i) y is directly proportional to (x + 3) 3.
When x = 2, y = 13.5 .

Find x when y = 108.

x =................................................... [3]

(ii) g is inversely proportional to the square of d.

When d is halved, the value of g is multiplied by a factor n.

Find n.

n =................................................... [2]

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14 Find the temperature that is 8 °C colder than - 5 °C.

............................................. °C [1]

15 There are two prime numbers in this list.

27 47 57 61 75 93

Work out the sum of these two prime numbers.

. ................................................ [2]

16 The distance from town A to town B on a map is 3.5 cm.

The scale on the map is 1 : 250 000.

Find the actual distance, in kilometres, from town A to town B.

........................................... km [2]
17 (a) The value of Priya’s car decreases by 10% every year.
The value today is $7695.

(i) Calculate the value of the car after one year.

$.................................................. [2]

(ii) Calculate the value of the car one year ago.

$.................................................. [2]

(b) Ali invests $600 at a rate of 2% per year simple interest.

Calculate the value of Ali’s investment at the end of 5 years.

$.................................................. [3]

(c) Sara invests $500 at a rate of r % per year compound interest.

At the end of 12 years, the value of Sara’s investment is $601.35, correct to the nearest cent.

Find the value of r.

r = ........................................... [3]
(d) The mass of a radioactive substance decreases exponentially at a rate of 3% each day.

(i) Find the overall percentage decrease at the end of 10 days.

............................................. % [2]

(ii) Find the number of whole days it takes until the mass of this substance is one half of its
original amount.

. ................................................ [3]

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 3

(a) Simplify `25x6j .

2
18

. ................................................ [2]

(b) These are the first five terms of a sequence.

1
1 6 36 216
6
Find the nth term of the sequence.

. ................................................ [2]
19 Jonah has $750.
1
He spends 4 of this money on travel and some of this money on food.
He now has $437.50 .

Work out the fraction of the $750 he spends on food.

. ................................................ [3]

20 Write 0.04628 correct to 2 significant figures.

. ................................................ [1]

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21 Kai invests $5000 in an account paying simple interest at a rate of r % per year.
At the end of 8 years, the value of his investment is $5700.

Find the value of r.

r = .................................................. [3]