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MATHEMATICS
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Monday 12 November 2018 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
Materials For Examiner’s Use
For this paper you must have:
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• mathematical instruments.
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Instructions
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• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Draw diagrams in pencil.
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• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
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• Answer all questions.
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• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write
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• Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to 18–19
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• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 80. 26

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1 A shape is translated by the vector  
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In which direction does the shape move?
Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

up down left right

2 What is 1.75 kilometres as a fraction of 700 metres?

Circle your answer.

[1 mark]

5 1 4 2
2 4 1 5

3 The first 4 terms of a linear sequence are

3 11 19 27

Circle the expression for the nth term.

[1 mark]

8 – 5n n+8 8n + 3 8n – 5

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4 Work out the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 20, 30 and 40
Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

10 120 240 24 000

5 The length of a table is 110 cm to the nearest cm

Complete the error interval.

[2 marks]

cm ⩽ length < cm

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6 A music festival has taken place each year from 2011
The table shows the number of people who attended each year.

Year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Number of
350 583 906 1471 2023 2612 3251 3780
people

The festival organisers draw a time series graph to represent the data.
The first four years have been plotted.

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6 (a) Complete the graph.
[2 marks]

6 (b) Use the graph to estimate the number of people who will attend the festival in 2019
[2 marks]

Answer

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7 k = n2 + 9n + 1
Mo says,
“k will be a prime number for all integer values of n from 1 to 9”

Show that Mo is wrong.

You must show that your value of k is not prime.
[3 marks]

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8 Doug owes an amount of £600
He wants to pay off this amount in five months.
He says,
“Each month, I will pay back 20% of the amount I still owe.”

Show working to check if his method is correct.

[3 marks]

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9 A motor racing circuit consists of
two parallel straight sections, each of length 0.75 km
a semicircle of diameter 0.9 km
three equal, smaller semicircles.
Not drawn
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The length of a motor race must be greater than 305 km

What is the lowest number of full laps needed at this circuit?

You must show your working.
[5 marks]

Answer

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10 Solve 8>3– x box
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[2 marks]

Answer

11 Use trigonometry to work out the size of angle x.

[2 marks]

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Answer degrees

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12 Lewis wants to draw the graph y = x3 for values of x from –2 to 2
Here is his graph.

Make one criticism of his graph.

[1 mark]

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13 The probability of Heads when a biased coin is thrown is 0.6
The coin is thrown 500 times.

Circle the expected number of Tails.

[1 mark]

20 200 250 300

14 The mean mass of a squad of 19 hockey players is 82 kg

A player of mass 93 kg joins the squad.

Work out the mean mass of the squad now.

[3 marks]

Answer kg

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15 A company makes two types of lampshade using fabric on wire frames.

Lampshade A
Fabric is used to make the curved surface of a cylinder.
The cylinder has radius 8 cm and height 22 cm

Lampshade B
Fabric is used to make the four triangular faces of a pyramid.

Each triangular face has base 15 cm and perpendicular height 24 cm

Not drawn
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Cost of fabric £400 per square metre

Other costs for A £3.50 per lampshade

Other costs for B £7.50 per lampshade

Work out the ratio cost of one lampshade A : cost of one lampshade B
Give your answer in the form n:1
[5 marks]

Answer :

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16 In a running club there are 50 females and 80 males.
If a female is chosen at random, the probability she has blue eyes is 0.38
If a male is chosen at random, the probability he has blue eyes is 0.6

One person is chosen at random.

Show that the probability the person has blue eyes is more than 0.5
[4 marks]

17 3
w=
5 x
2
Circle the expression for w
[1 mark]

6 9 6 9
10 x 2 25 x 2 10 x 25 x

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18 Here is some information about the ages of people at a concert.

Age, x (years) Frequency

10 ⩽ x < 15 8

15 ⩽ x < 25 24

25 ⩽ x < 40 30

40 ⩽ x < 70 39

Draw a histogram to represent the information.

[3 marks]

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19 The length of a roll of ribbon is 30 metres, correct to the nearest half-metre.
A piece of length 5.8 metres, correct to the nearest 10 centimetres, is cut from the roll.

Work out the maximum possible length of ribbon left on the roll.
[3 marks]

Answer metres

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20 Curve P has equation y = 2(x – 1)2 – 5
Curve Q is a reflection in the y-axis of curve P.

Work out the equation of curve Q.

Give your answer in the form y = ax2 + bx + c where a, b and c are integers.
[3 marks]

Answer

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21 Priya and Joe travel the same 16.8 km route.
Priya starts at 9.00 am and walks at a constant speed of 6 km/h
Joe starts at 9.30 am and runs at a constant speed.
Joe overtakes Priya at 10.20 am

At what time does Joe finish the route?

[5 marks]

Answer

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22 An approximate solution to an equation is found using the iterative formula
3
xn +1 =
( xn ) −2
with x1 = –1
10

22 (a) Work out the values of x2 and x3

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x2 =

x3 =

22 (b) Work out the solution to 5 decimal places.

[1 mark]

x=

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23 The diagram shows the side view of a step ladder with a horizontal strut of length 48 cm
The strut is one third of the way up the ladder.
The symmetrical cross section of the ladder shows two similar triangles.

Not drawn
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Work out the vertical height, h cm, of the ladder.

[5 marks]

Answer cm

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4 3
Volume of a sphere = πr where r is the radius
3
1 2
Volume of a cone = πr h where r is the radius and h is the perpendicular height
3

A sphere has radius 2x cm

A cone has
radius 3x cm
perpendicular height h cm

The sphere and the cone have the same volume.

Work out radius of cone : perpendicular height of cone

Give your answer in the form a:b where a and b are integers.
[4 marks]

Answer :
9

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25 ABCD is a quadrilateral.

Not drawn
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The quadrilateral is reflected in the line x=4

Which vertices are invariant?

Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

A and D C and D B and C B and D

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2x + 3
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x−4

Work out f –1(x)

[4 marks]

Answer

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27 The line y = 3x + p and the circle x2 + y2 = 53 intersect at points A and B.
p is a positive integer.

27 (a) Show that the x-coordinates of points A and B satisfy the equation
10x2 + 6px + p2 – 53 = 0
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27 (b) The coordinates of A are (2, 7)

Work out the coordinates of B.

You must show your working.
[5 marks]

Answer ( , )

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8
5
7

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28 Here is a sketch of a quadratic curve.
The turning point is (3, –2)

Not drawn
accurately

Circle the correct statement about the gradient of the curve for x < 3
[1 mark]

gradient is positive gradient is negative

gradient is zero gradient could be any value

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