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COMMON ENTRANCE EXAMINATION AT 13+

MATHEMATICS
LEVEL 2: CALCULATOR PAPER

Wednesday 3 June 2020

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• This examination is 60 minutes long.

• All questions should be attempted.

• Where answers are not exact, they should be given to three significant figures, unless
specified otherwise.

• The π button on your calculator should be used for calculations involving π.

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1. (a) (i) Write each of the numbers in the following calculation correct to 1 significant
figure:

712 2 96.8
3.87

 
$QVZHU . (2)



(ii) Work out the value of your answer to part (a) (i).

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

(iii) Giving your answer correct to 2 decimal places, work out the value of

712 2 96.8
3.87

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

(b) (i) Writing down the first 6 figures shown on your calculator, work out the value of

5.13π

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

(ii) Write your answer to part (b) (i) correct to 3 significant figures.

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

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2. (i) 160 girls go to Egghead Academy.
112 of the girls who go to Egghead Academy study Latin.

What percentage of the girls who go to Egghead Academy study Latin?

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

(ii) Altogether 280 children go to Egghead Academy.

65% of all the children who go to Egghead Academy study Latin.

How many of the children who go to Egghead Academy study Latin?

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

(iii) What fraction of the boys who go to Egghead Academy study Latin?

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

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3. Daniel, Ivan and Nadia are playing a game with red, blue and yellow marbles.

(i) Daniel starts the game with red, blue and yellow marbles in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5

If he has 18 red marbles, how many yellow marbles does he have?

Answer: ..……….…………….… (2)

(ii) Ivan starts the game with red, blue and yellow marbles in the ratio 4 : 5 : 3

If he has a total of 48 marbles, how many blue marbles does he have?

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

(iii) Nadia starts the game with 75 marbles, of which 50 are blue or red.

If she has 20 more blue marbles than red marbles, what is the ratio of Nadia’s red,
blue and yellow marbles?
Give your answer in its simplest form.

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

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4. (i) A sequence begins with the following numbers:

50  49  47  44  ….  35  ….  22

Write down the two missing numbers in the sequence.

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

(ii) Some other sequences follow the rule subtract 4 then multiply by 2

(a) (i) If the first number in the sequence is 8, work out the second number in the
sequence.

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

(ii) What is the sum of the first 10 numbers in the sequence?

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

(b) If the third number in a sequence is 16, work out the first number in the
sequence.

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

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5. Simplify the following expressions:

(i) 4a 2 6b 1 3a 2 2b

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

(ii) 4c 2 3 5c 3

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

12 − 16d
(iii)
4

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

(iv) 9 2 4(3 1 2e)

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

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6. (i) Factorise fully

36x 2 24

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

(ii) The diagram shows a cake with a volume of

(36x 2 24) cm3. not to
scale
Sally shares the cake equally between herself
and 3 friends.

What volume of cake, in terms of x, does each person receive?  

Answer: ............................... cm3 (1)

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7. Every day, Ned’s Newsagent sells the following newspapers:

10 copies of the Daily Post

15 copies of the Protector
13 copies of the Daily Wire
and some copies of the Bystander

10
Daily Post
60°

(i) (a) What angle is needed to show each copy on a pie chart?

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

(b) Complete and label the pie chart above to show how many copies of each
newspaper Ned’s Newsagent sells every day. (3)

(ii) On Friday, Ned’s Newsagent did not have any copies of the Bystander.
7 of his customers chose the Daily Wire instead, and 5 chose the Daily Post.
The other customers who usually buy the Bystander did not buy a newspaper.

If a new pie chart is drawn to show how many copies of each newspaper Ned’s
Newsagent sold on Friday, what angle will be needed for the Daily Wire?

°
Answer: .................................... (2)
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8. In the diagram below, PQRST is part of a regular polygon with centre O.

not to scale
O
T
c d
b

140°
P S

a
Q R

(i) Calculate the size of angle a

°
Answer: a 5 ............................. (1)

(ii) (a) Calculate the size of angle b

°
Answer: b 5 ............................. (1)

(b) How many sides does the regular polygon have?

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

(iii) Calculate the size of angle c

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

(iv) Calculate the size of angle d

°
Answer: d 5 ............................. (2)

(v) Are the lines QR and OT parallel?

Give a reason for your answer.

Answer: yes / no reason .....................................................................................

.................................................................................................................................. (2)

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9. Shape A is drawn on the centimetre square grid below.
Under an enlargement from centre O, the line P΄Q΄ is the image of the line PQ.

P′

O
A

Q′

(i) What is the scale factor of the enlargement?

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

(ii) Complete the enlargement of shape A from centre O and label the image B. (2)

(iii) Shape B has perimeter 33.0 cm.

What is the perimeter of shape A?

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

(iv) Shape A has area 6.5 cm2.

What is the area of shape B?

Answer: ............................... cm2 (2)

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10. Form 6C counted how many people were in the cars passing the school gate during a
lesson.
The table below shows their results.

number of people cars

1 7

2 12

3 10

4 8

5 3

(i) What was the modal number of people in a car?

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

(ii) What was the median number of people in a car?

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

(iii) (a) Work out the total number of people in all the cars.

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

(b) Calculate the mean number of people per car.

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

(iv) The next day, Form 6C repeated the experiment.

To their surprise, they counted the same total number of people in the cars, although
the mean was now 2.4 people per car.

How many more cars went past the school gate during their lesson the next day?

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

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11. The table below shows the temperature and the number of ice creams sold by Creamy
Cones during 10 days last summer.

temperature, in °C 25 24 27 21 19 22 27 28 25 22

ice creams sold 34 31 37 22 19 28 33 38 32 25

(i) The first six points are plotted on the scatter graph below.

Complete the scatter graph by plotting the remaining points.






QXPEHURI
LFHFUHDPV
VROG





      
WHPSHUDWXUHLQƒ&
(2)

(ii) What type of correlation is shown by these results?

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

(iii) Draw a line of best fit on the graph. (1)

(iv) The next day, the temperature was 23 °C.

Showing clearly where you take your reading, use your line of best fit to predict

how many ice creams were sold by Creamy Cones the next day.

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

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12. Jo, Paula and Jess are running in cross-country races.

(i) Jo runs 4 kilometres in her race at an average speed of 10 kilometres per hour.

How many minutes does it take for Jo to complete her race?

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

(ii) The distance of Paula’s race is 3.6 kilometres.

She completes her race in 18 minutes.

What is Paula’s average speed in kilometres per hour?

Answer: ............................. km/h (2)

(iii) Jess runs for 20 minutes at an average speed of 13.5 kilometres per hour.

(a) How far does Jess run?

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

(b) Change Jess’s speed of 13.5 kilometres per hour into a speed in metres per
second.

Answer: ............................... m/s (2)

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13. The diagram below shows the position of a castle (C ) and a temple (T ).
The temple is 14 kilometres from the castle.

C
14 km
T

(i) Explain why the scale of the diagram is 1 cm to represent 2 km.

..................................................................................................................................

.................................................................................................................................. (1)

A fort is 16 kilometres from the castle and on a bearing of 215° from the temple.

(ii) Show the position of the fort on the diagram and label it F.

Draw a north-line at F.(3)

(iii) What is the distance from the temple to the fort?

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

(iv) What is the bearing of the castle from the fort?

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

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14. (i) (a) Calculate the circumference of a circle of radius 7 centimetres.

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

(b) Calculate the area of a circle of radius 7 centimetres.

Answer: ............................... cm2 (2)

(ii) The diagram below shows a semicircle of radius 7 cm with a rectangle removed.

not to size
7 cm

3.5 cm

7 cm

(a) Calculate the perimeter of the shaded shape.

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

(b) Calculate the area of the shaded shape.

Answer: ............................... cm2 (2)

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15. Mary, Paul and Jane are baking cakes.
Let m be the number of cakes that Mary bakes.
Paul bakes three times as many cakes as Mary.

(i) In terms of m, how many cakes does Paul bake?

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

Jane bakes 6 fewer cakes than Mary.

(ii) In terms of m, how many cakes does Jane bake?

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

(iii) In terms of m, how many cakes do Mary, Paul and Jane bake altogether?

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

Altogether Mary, Paul and Jane bake 54 cakes.

(iv) Write down and solve an equation in m to work out how many cakes Mary bakes.

Answer: m 5 ............................. (2)

(v) Write down and simplify the ratio of the numbers of cakes baked by Mary, Paul and
Jane.

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

(Total marks: 100)

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